This was a very frustrating game to cap off a frustrating weekend. Yu Darvish was really good in innings 3-6. He gave up a couple runs in the 1st and 2nd, yet wrangled out of trouble in both innings. He was his ace self in the middle innings and ended his night by giving up […]
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Yu Will Survive. Cubs – 6; Indians – 5
A lot of shit happened in this game. Some of it pretty weird. In the end, the Cubs shaved a game off their magic number and got their 29th win of the year. The Cubs took a 5-3 lead into the top of the ninth. The Cubs scored the winning run on a pair of […]
Yu’s Still Aces Cubs – 0; Reds – 3
Yu Darvish struggled through a 3 run first inning and that was enough. Put this one to bed and get ’em next time. The Good Of course Darvish was still awesome. He threw 98 pitches in his 6 innings on the mound. He struck out 9. 65 of his 98 pitches were strikes. Darvish didn’t […]
Yu’s At It Again. Cubs – 2; Sox – 1
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 […]
KrausenKast Episode 4
The morans further dive into Tonker’s heritage, Yu Darvish’s Cy Young chances, Ian Happ’s breakout, and the new Cubs medical staff. Among other things. https://anchor.fm/krausencast/embed/episodes/Northside-KrausenKast-Episode-4-eiflhq
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
GO DO THAT VOODOO THAT YU DO SO WELL: Cubs 6, Pirates 3
After last night’s game in Cincinnati was postponed – one of the few to be postponed by rain rather than COVID-19 – Yu Darvish got to face the Pittsburgh Pirates instead of the Reds, which is extraordinarily good luck. Pittsburgh was in town tonight for the first of three games to face the Cubs. How […]
