The Cubs managed to salvage the final game of the weekend series with the White Sox behind another dominant performance by Yu Darvish. The Sox winning streak ends at 7 games. The Good This is getting predictable. Darvish went 7IP. 10Ks. 1BB. He induced 26! swinging strikes out of his 103 pitches. 73 of those […]
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Yu, again? Cubs 6, Covidorks 3
The Cubs did just enough to win this game. They pitched really well. They got a couple timely hits. The bullpen shut down the Cardinals when it had to but not without a speed bump. There have been some pretty impressive pitching performances in the NL so far. The Reds have Gray and Castillo. Max […]
BATTLE CRIES AND CHAMPAGNE JUST IN TIME FOR SUNRISE: Cubs 5, Team Covid 4
After the Cubs stunk out the entire city of Chicago in the first game of this evening’s doubleheader against the St. Louis Cardinals, they sent Tyson Miller to the mound for his big league debut in the nightcap. How did it go? The Cubs got no-hit for five innings against a parade of guys making […]
WASTED EFFORT: Team COVID 3, Cubs 1
Today the Chicago Cubs played their first doubleheader of the 2020 season, meeting up with the St. Louis Cardinals for a twinbill necessitated by the Cardinals lack of leadership and discipline resulting in a casino outing that led to 18 different members of the organization testing positive for COVID-19. Kyle Hendricks was scheduled to take […]
WE SUCK AGAIN: Brewers 4, Cubs 3
The Chicago Cubs and Milwaukee Brewers squared off tonight in the second game of their four game series in Wrigley Field. The big news out of the Cubs clubhouse was scheduled starter Tyler Chatwood being scratched with mid-back tightness, so Alec Mills would have to step in against Brewers ace Brandon Woodruff. How did it […]
Yu. That’s it. That’s the Title. Cubs 4, Milwaukee 2.
Cubs won. Again. 4-2. They’re 13-3. Best record in MLB by a game and a half. I think. Math is hard, Darvish threw 7 innings of 1 hit, 1 run ball. 104 pitches. According to Statcast, Darvish threw 7 different pitches tonight. There is an average velocity but that might be the most meaningless stat […]
MALICE IN CHAINS: Cubs 7, Indians 2
Tonight the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians had one of those “The game starts at quitting time so I will remember to sign off at 5” starts to conclude their two-game series at Progressive Field. It featured Kyle Hendricks against Carlos Carrasco, who was injured and did not pitch in the 2016 postseason – which […]
JASON HEYWARD IS A BEAUTIFUL MAN: Cubs 7, Indians 1
All it took was for us to mention on the Krausencast how bad Jason Heyward’s contract was. The handsome Cubs right fielder had his second-biggest night in Cleveland of his career last night, hammering three hits, including a 3-run home run, and driving in four as Jon Lester did Jon Lester things on the mound, […]
THE BEAT GOES ON: Cubs 6, Royals 1
The Chicago Cubs and Kansas City Royals moved their home-and-home series to Kaufmann Stadium in KC for the third game of this four game set. The Cubs, having won the first two, came in rocking a five game win streak, and the Royals had have a losing streak of the same length. How would tonight […]
The Cubs Starters Are the Best In the NL…and They Have a Best Friend
This is probably needless to say but this whole season is and will continue to be an exercise in Small Sample Size Theater. It’s best that we just get used to it now to save us all a lot of typing. Stats below courtesy of Fangraphs. The Cubs have now completed roughly 20% of their […]
