Cubs (Peterson) vs Brewers (Harrison): 6/27/26, 6:10pm

[BruisedCrew]

1 minute ago, yfinn6 said:

I turned it off. What happened?

He took a swing and immediately grabbed his hamstring

[yfinn6]

Just now, BruisedCrew said:

He took a swing and immediately grabbed his hamstring

Terrific. See ya in September, Garrett. 

[liveforoctober]

Nashville is currently in a rain delay. If they resume playing tonight, we'll be on watch to see if Lara gets pulled.

[wntrtxn21]

2 minutes ago, yourout said:

Turang officially has me worried. 

Now hitting 0.200 over the last 30 games.

With the pen once again blowing up I know Murphy has a lot of worries, but it's time to sit Turang! He's all messed up with the bat and needs time off. I realize it means starting Ortiz and Hamilton, but right now they both may be equal or better options than Turang. 

[wiguy94]

Well today was a bit of a nightmare. Mitchell potentially hurt. Our bullpen is in shambles with very few potential replacements in AAA and we have 16 games in the next 15 days. 
 

The offense is going to need to wake up. Way too many low run outputs from them lately.

[yfinn6]

5 minutes ago, wiguy94 said:

Well today was a bit of a nightmare. Mitchell potentially hurt. Our bullpen is in shambles with very few potential replacements in AAA and we have 16 games in the next 15 days. 
 

The offense is going to need to wake up. Way too many low run outputs from them lately.

This is the key to me over this stretch. Lots of weak contact on the first pitch tonight. Maybe that was the gameplan but Petersen went through with relative ease. Chourio hit his HR on the first pitch.

Turang is an absolute mess and they're getting nothing from Yelich. Those are almost two automatic outs getting 4-5 ABs a night right now. You obviously can't really bench or send them down but neither one appear to be all that close to going on a heater. 

[Jim French Stepstool]

To me a significant thing about this game was Patrick being poor in back-to-back outings---both after two days rest. I'm not sure that he's never worked before w/that amount of rest but I know it's not the norm for him. Something to take note of. Other than that........for all the attention to the spectacular, the eye-candy, you could argue the key to the whole thing was the back-to-back walks worked by Bregman & Busch. And they WERE worked. Even a slight amount of chasing by either & that could easily be a scoreless inning. A couple of good grind-it-out ABs, something we're good at--when we do it, that is. Lots of talk about trusting each other & passing the baton. That approach gets lost too often.

You COULD argue for Koenig coming in for the Happ AB that inning. Ashby was warming earlier but by then you're trailing & most likely not using him.

Oh, and what's with all the dugout shots of CC? Did the director think he's PJ Fleck?

[yourout]

16 minutes ago, wntrtxn21 said:

With the pen once again blowing up I know Murphy has a lot of worries, but it's time to sit Turang! He's all messed up with the bat and needs time off. I realize it means starting Ortiz and Hamilton, but right now they both may be equal or better options than Turang. 

Just looked At his splits....yikes.

.288 against rightys.

.183 against leftys.

 

[wiguy94]

18 minutes ago, Jim French Stepstool said:

To me a significant thing about this game was Patrick being poor in back-to-back outings---both after two days rest. I'm not sure that he's never worked before w/that amount of rest but I know it's not the norm for him. Something to take note of. Other than that........for all the attention to the spectacular, the eye-candy, you could argue the key to the whole thing was the back-to-back walks worked by Bregman & Busch. And they WERE worked. Even a slight amount of chasing by either & that could easily be a scoreless inning. A couple of good grind-it-out ABs, something we're good at--when we do it, that is. Lots of talk about trusting each other & passing the baton. That approach gets lost too often.

You COULD argue for Koenig coming in for the Happ AB that inning. Ashby was warming earlier but by then you're trailing & most likely not using him.

Oh, and what's with all the dugout shots of CC? Did the director think he's PJ Fleck?

Murphy is certainly asking way too much of Patrick and I'm going to go there but maybe he would have looked better on Wednesday/today if he hadn't been burned for 3 innings and 40 pitches up 7 runs in Atlanta. 

40 pitches on Sunday, 40 pitches on Wednesday, then coming in today likely being asked to go multiple innings and. Like that's not a reasonable ask for a reliever in my opinion.

[TURBO]

1 hour ago, Brian said:

That is why we need another good pitcher at the trade deadline. 

But we have so much pitching depth, no way we need more pitching...

[trwi7]

2 hours ago, HarryDoyle said:

The offense is not going to go scoreless against that bullpen.

Womp womp

2 hours ago, RWeeksFan23 said:

Grant Anderson in the game.

Trwi, are you watching??

I was actually not.  So ERA when I'm not watching jumps to about 0.48. 😆

[Jim French Stepstool]

32 minutes ago, wiguy94 said:

Murphy is certainly asking way too much of Patrick and I'm going to go there but maybe he would have looked better on Wednesday/today if he hadn't been burned for 3 innings and 40 pitches up 7 runs in Atlanta. 

40 pitches on Sunday, 40 pitches on Wednesday, then coming in today likely being asked to go multiple innings and. Like that's not a reasonable ask for a reliever in my opinion.

No it isn't. But I'll go back to the 2-day off thing in this particular case. Forty is a doable pitch count for him, but keep him on the sked he's been successful with. Is he OK Wednesday & tonite if he threw 20 in Atlanta & Cincinnati? Maybe.........?

Yeah, using him for three innings in Atlanta was a point of contention right off the bat, for sure.

[Samurai Bucky]

1 hour ago, wiguy94 said:

Murphy is certainly asking way too much of Patrick and I'm going to go there but maybe he would have looked better on Wednesday/today if he hadn't been burned for 3 innings and 40 pitches up 7 runs in Atlanta. 

40 pitches on Sunday, 40 pitches on Wednesday, then coming in today likely being asked to go multiple innings and. Like that's not a reasonable ask for a reliever in my opinion.

I know he was sort of a border line starter.  Wouldn't his workload be a little more like a starter, but only on 2-3 days rest?  I agree he is not being used correctly.  Perhaps Ashby is being used in the same way?

[rickh150]

31 minutes ago, Samurai Bucky said:

I know he was sort of a border line starter.  Wouldn't his workload be a little more like a starter, but only on 2-3 days rest?  I agree he is not being used correctly.  Perhaps Ashby is being used in the same way?

He fits the role. Maybe a day more rest.

[rickh150]

A great game today to remind us how great Game 5 was…