Tonight the Chicago Cubs and Milwaukee Brewers met for their second-to-last game of the 2020 season against each other in Miller Park. Kyle Hendricks started for the Cubs, and the Brewers went with an emergency bullpen game, as Brett Anderson was unable to answer the bell for his scheduled start. How did it go? Well, […]
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 […]
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 talk about a not very fun series. It was also the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Negro Leagues. We probably should have just done a whole episode on that.
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 […]
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 […]
Last night the Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds squared off for the third game of their four game series after the Cubs had won the first two games. However, in this one the Reds would be playing at full strength for the first time in the series with the return of Mike Moustakas and Nick […]
Tonight the 2020 regular season began for the Chicago Cubs in Wrigley Field, as the Milwaukee Brewers came in to get the ball rolling. Opening games can be pretty low scoring affairs, especially in Chicago where the game time temperature can generally hit Arctic levels. However, thanks to COVID-19, the air was warm and it […]
Tonight we finally got non-scrimmage baseball, as the Chicago Cubs and White Sox met for a preseason game in Wrigley Field. We can’t really call it an exhibition game, since it’s not really being exhibited to anyone. At least not in person. This is the first of two games in two nights between these teams, […]
As mentioned earlier today in this condemned tenement of a baseball blog, tonight’s Cubs intrasquad game in Wrigley Field would be broadcast on Marquee, and lo and behold it was. The park was empty, other than some players, coaches and staff milling around the stands, Len & JD in the booth, and the PA and […]
