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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
Keegan Thompson
Hayden Wesneski 
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

INFIELDERS: 7
* Michael Busch 
Garrett Cooper
Nico Hoerner
Nick Madrigal
* Miles Mastrobuoni
Christopher Morel
Dansby Swanson

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Cody Bellinger 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 10 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Luke Little, P 
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 2 
Seiya Suzuki, OF
Patrick Wisdom, INF 

15-DAY IL: 2
* Justin Steele, P  
Jameson Taillon, P 

60-DAY IL: 2 
Caleb Kilian, P 
Julian Merryweather, P
 




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Pirates @ Cubs: Archer vs Montgomery (Game 157)

Submitted by CTSteve on

PIT (79-76): RHP Chris Archer (5-8, 4.49)
CHC (91-65): LHP Mike Montgomery (5-5, 3.75)
First pitch: 7:05pmCST

Montgomery won in Arizona his last time out (6 IP, 1 ER). He's 2-0 with a 2.63 in two starts (and three games) against the Pirates. Overall, they are 17-70 (.243) against him. Mercer is 4-9 with a HR.

Archer gave up 1 ER in 7 innings and beat KC his last time out. The Cubs are 15-47 (.319) against him for their careers. Baez is 3-6.

Quintana and Nova tomorrow at the same time.

Go Cubs!

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Comments

Submitted by blockhead25 on Tue, 09/25/2018 - 09:21 pm

If the Cubs win 2 of 3 against the Pirates, and the Cards win the next two from the Brewers....Cards are eliminated from Division contention and the Brewers would be 3 back with 3 to go.  Seems like the best case scenario heading into the weekend.

Braun is picking the wrong time to get hot again.

Submitted by blockhead25 on Tue, 09/25/2018 - 09:44 pm

Cubs 1 for 19 with RISP since the 3rd inning against the White Sox Sunday.  That's an .053 average.  

Submitted by billybucks on Tue, 09/25/2018 - 09:52 pm

Very strong 2004 vibe right now -- talented team at home the last week of the season playing a team that has been eliminated from the playoffs -- and everybody stops hitting at the same time.  Things got so bad I remember Nomar sac bunting on his own rather than trying to drive in a run.  That, plus the Pirate pitchers have the Cubs' number.  Still 5 games to turn things around -- they will likely need to win at least 4 to stay ahead of the Brewers, but this has an all-too-familiar feel to it.   

Submitted by crunch on Tue, 09/25/2018 - 09:03 pm

yeah, sure...walk in a run.  whatever.  #1 team in the NL right here.

on the bat side of things, maddon needs to start batting the pitcher 2nd so it's like having 7 additional lead off men.

Submitted by Eric S on Tue, 09/25/2018 - 09:21 pm

KB out of the game with a left wrist contusion. Nice work by Chris Archer tonight. 

Submitted by crunch on Tue, 09/25/2018 - 09:43 pm

awesome catch baez!

now he needs to hit 7 solo homers.

hey look, another error after and awesome play.  he's pulled a few of those lately.

Submitted by blockhead25 on Wed, 09/26/2018 - 09:12 am

Cubs half game over Brewers

Dodgers half game over Rockies

Rockies half game over Cards

4.5 games to go.   Kinda Crazy.  Wish Cubs weren’t on that list.

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Wed, 09/26/2018 - 09:34 am

BILLYBUCKS: It would be Brewers at Cubs on Monday in an N. L. Central Championship tie-breaker Game #163 if they finish in a tie (home-field is determined by head-to-head record). Also, if the Dodgers, Rockies, and Cardinals finish in a three-way tie (not implausible), it would be Rockies at Dodgers on Monday in a Game #163 to determine N. L. West Champ, then the loser of the Rockies-Dodgers N. L. West tie-breaker game would play a Game #164 at Cardinals on Tuesday to determine the N. L. Wild Card #2 (home field in this scenario goes to club that did not play and lose the previous day), and then the N. L. Wild Card game would be pushed back to Wednesday and the loser of the Cubs-Brewers game on Monday would host it. So even if things go sideways for the Cubs, they would at least host both a game #163 N. L. Central Championship tie-breaker game on Monday and (if they lose it) they would host the N. L. Wild Card game on Tuesday (or on Wednesday if LAD, STL, and COL were to finish in a three-way tie).

And the Rockies could conceivably play at LAD on Monday, at STL on Tuesday, at Cubs or MIL on Wednesday, and then at Cubs or MIL on Thursday & Friday, before finally returning home and getting a day off after playing 15 days in a row!  

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Wed, 09/26/2018 - 09:51 am

Cubs starting pitchers going forward would be Quintana today vs PIT, Lester Thursday vs PIT, Hendricks-Hamels-Montgomery FRI-SAT-SUN vs STL, Quintana vs MIL on Monday (N. L. Central Championship tie-breaker game if necessary), Lester on TUE or WED in N. L. Wild Card game (if the Cubs don't win N. L. Central), and then Hendricks-Hamels on THU-FRI in first two games of NLDS.

If the Cubs do have to play both Monday (N. L. Central tie-breaker game vs MIL) and Wednesday (delayed N. L. Wild Card game because of three-way tie between LAD-STL-COL), Lester wouldn't pitch in the NLDS until Game #4 (it would be Hendricks-Hamels-Quintana-Lester-Hendricks, with the lattter two games played only "if necessaery"). So under that scanario, Lester might not even pitch in the NLDS. 

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Wed, 09/26/2018 - 09:57 am

BTW, "tie-breaker" games are considered regular season games and so they are played with the expanded September rosters. Also, even players on MLB clubs not involved in the tie-breaker games accrue one additional day of MLB Service Time if the player had not yet accrued 172 days of MLB Service Time that season (or possibly even two additional days if multiple tie-breaker games need to be played because of a three-way tie, or even three additional days if for example the Cubs & Brewers play a tie-breaker game on Monday and LAD, STL, and COL finish in a tie and the N. L. West Championship tie-breaker game on Monday is postponed a day because of rain so that the N. L. Wild Card #2 tie-breaker game is not played until Wednesday).

And this applies to - ALL - players who are on an MLB Active List or MLB DL on the last scheduled day of the MLB regular season (Sunday), even if the player's club is not playing a tie-breaker game, and even if the player is on a club in the other league. 

Submitted by billybucks on Wed, 09/26/2018 - 09:34 am

The parallels between this Cubs team and the 1980s Bears are interesting (and not in a good way):

1984/2015: Young team exceeds expectations and makes the playoffs.  Coach/manager is a media darling.

1985/2016: Epic & Historic Championship season, talk of mulitple titles.

1986/2017: Championship hangover season.  Good team makes the playoffs but no title.

Bears next several years:  Good playoff teams, but lots of grumbling by fans due to high expectations, never win another title, popular coach fired.  Cubs??

Recent comments

  • crunch (view)

    he's a low-level cubs star in the modern history of the cubs (c.zambrano, k.wood, r.dempster, etc), but that star has dimmed...and has been dimming since 2021.

    2024 has been ugly the whole way and we're only in mid-april.  homers aside (even though there's been 7 in 17ip) he gave up 29 hits in 20 spring innings and 31 in 17 regular season innings.

    he's pretty much only got 2 pitches at this point in his career and the mix isn't fooling anyone.  he threw a noticable amount more curves in his last start to add to the mix and it didn't help his issues.  he don't have many moves left to break out.

  • Eric S (view)

    Definitely needs a 10 day stint for the hangnail - have to nip those things in the bud or suffer the consequences (ie, more opponent home run derby, etc)

  • Eric S (view)

    Thanks for checking and yeah, that’s a double ouch

  • Sonicwind75 (view)

    Believe you are correct, checked and appears Cubs have a $2.51 million obligation to Barnhart this season per Cot's Contracts.  Also paying Trey Mancini $7mil this season.  Ouch.  

  • crunch (view)

    m.busch had 0hr and 2 doubles when he was last at wrigley.

    we'll probably see a few more of his jerseys in the seats when they return tomorrow.

    wonder who will go down for taillon.  hey hendricks, you got a hangnail or something?

  • Eric S (view)

    Nice work by Wesneski with some solid defense behind him and the late tack on runs were welcome. Gladly take a 5-4 West Coast swing, particularly down two key starting pitchers … Now just don’t get swept by the Marlins for Pete’s sake. 

  • crunch (view)

    dansby takes the team lead in SB today after a SB with 2 SB total.  the team has 3.  madrigal has the other one.

    cubs also have 7 triples, 7 players each.

  • crunch (view)

    sure am ready for p.wisdom and m.masterboney to swap roster spots.

  • Eric S (view)

    The fifth inning has not been kind to Wicks this season. Giving up leadoff doubles to Tucker Barnhart is also not good for business. IIRC, the Cubs are on the hook for the majority of Barnhart’s salary this season to add insult to injury (could definitely be wrong here). 

  • Cubster (view)

    Kris Bryant to IL with low back strain. He’s keeping the Rockies docs busy.

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