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Cool Hand Lucroy
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Cubs manage to win a close one this afternoon. They did have to cover a lot of bullpen innings and face two very difficult pitching matchups this weekend. None of which matters if we take care of things this homestand. -
Looking for us to get back to playing winning baseball tonight. I hope the off day helped the pitching especially. We need more consistency than showed up in Texas. Of course, bad series happen. Important thing is not to stack them this time of year. Would love us to rip off a 5-1 homestand, but 4-2 is probably good enough. I'll be hoping for some help against our closest competition, but this is all in our hands. New, 15-game season. 0-0. Let's go 10-5.
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Yeah, you're getting your magic number down at least two on somebody that series. Tougher schedules for the Dodgers and Phils. Not much to say other than we just need to take care of business at home. There are 15 games left. We will have at least a 5.5 game lead in the division and at least 6.5 on the bye (plus the relevant tiebreaker). Honestly, if the Braves win tonight, this whole series is really no big deal standings-wise. Even if the Cubs get 2 of 3, we're still in a commanding position. Take advantage of the off day, remind ourselves it isn't over, and put together a strong home stand.
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Rangers on some kind of heater right now. Been a disappointing series all around. We probably deserved to win one (maybe we still will), but nothing much to do but keep plugging away and try to hit the reset button.
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Well, we got Mr. Mayo out in a big spot. Maybe that turns things around.
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Man, this team is kind of snake-bit this series. That pitch to Osuna just basically hit the plate, and he lines it into center.
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Frustrating inning. This feels kind of like a sneaky big game to me. 15 left after today, and it'd be real nice to be in a spot where you only have to go 10-5. Plus, despite the schedule not being THAT tough, I don't like having the Cardinals twice.
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Lol. They're loaded for Joey.
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What is going on here? These blow-up innings are really getting tiresome.
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Minnesota sources reporting that Kirill Kaprizov turned down an 8-year, $128 million deal from the Wild. Would have been the richest contract in NHL history. Kaprizov has one year left on his current deal then becomes a free agent. I can squint and see the logic here. The cap is rising, contracts have a lot of room to grow, and Kaprizov will probably be one of (if not the) most in-demand FA next offseason. Still. That's a ton of downside risk for a guy with a pretty lengthy injury history. The other explanation I can think of is that maybe he just doesn't like MN or really wants to win a cup and doesn't see it happening there. Either way, the NHL is such a fascinating league. Contracts are so cheap compared to the other leagues, the players incentives don't often seem purely financial, and it seems like there's going to be a lot of cash flowing into the league in the coming years.
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Yeah, I thought the offense was much better tonight. Needed to put together one more inning. Pitching had one blow-up inning again, and that's all it takes against the Rangers, I guess. Man, they can get guys out. Every year, there's always one team that seems to get blazing hit to close the season. Texas might be that club. The nice part of having a magic number of 11 with 16 to go is you can afford to drop a road series against a tough opponent. Hopefully, that's all it is. Get a win tomorrow plus the off day, and that'll feel fine, especially if we can roll up a 4-2 home stand (or better) against mediocre competition.
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This feels like a tyranny of small differences topic. There is a theoretical difference between being the one seed and the two seed. Just not sure the theory is all that significant. If someone would rather have the one, I get it. I don't care enough to get worked up about it. Finishing with the 3 (or 4), OTOH, would be annoying. To me, it all feels like the NCAAT. Undoubtedly, I'd rather be an 11-seed than a 9. Playing a 6 and 3 (potentially) is better than playing an 8 and a 1.
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When you really needed a shutdown inning, that stings. Two games in a row where the pitching was going great for 12 outs or so before the big inning.
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I have no rational reason other than I don't want to beat them over 162 and lose to them in October.
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Fair. I tend to think that stuff is overrated, but I've never played big-league ball.
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Hey, old friend Hoby coming in. Glad the Brewers didn't totally wreck his arm with that massive workload.
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Call me crazy, but I'd honestly rather have the two. Takes playing the Cubs before the NLCS off the table.
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Love Yelich running and Contreras taking on the first pitch. That's a free base, and it cashes.
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Well if it weren't for bad luck, we'd have none. Two smoked balls for outs, including a home run robbery, and a ground-rule double that costs us a run.
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Is there a humidor thing going on in Texas? My goodness. These balls are smoked.
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I knew you'd be all over this, @sveumrules. Thanks for your good work. It's reliably insightful.
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How do Vaughn/Hoskins compare defensively? They sort of seem like basically the same player to me, but others likely have a keener eye for the metrics. I would guess, simply by virtue of being 5 years younger, Vaughn would have any small edge there might be, but my quick gloss sees Hoskins as slightly ahead if anyone is. Early in the year, Curt Hogg made a good point about Murphy's tendency to PR for Hoskins in, say, the 7th inning of a tie game being detrimental. One benefit of adding Hoskins to the mix is that we can perhaps do that more liberally without too much of an offensive downgrade. Something with value in the postseason too. Looking forward to forgetting about yesterday. Just a pretty listless performance all around offensively. I'm among those who thought Q was mostly fine. We weren't winning that game anyway. As others have pointed out, the rested bullpen is a nice change of pace. Would love to have that magic number for the division in single digits before this series is out, so... Go us! Go Atlanta!
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Schedule-wise, the Cubs, you could argue, have a more difficult final 19 than we do. They have two series against bad teams in the Braves and Pirates. Their other remaining series are against the Mets and a bunch of teams right around .500 (Reds, Cardinals, and Rays). Meanwhile, the Brewers have the Reds, Cardinals (x2), Rangers, Padres, and Angels. I think that's pretty much a wash all things considered. We also get one more off day and one fewer road game. Anyone feeling extra paranoid might want to throw a ten on the Cubs at 50-1 (which is still too high at DraftKings) for a little insurance policy.
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5.5 to 7.5 in two days makes one feel good. I know a lot of us won't really rest until it's over, but you have to feel incredibly happy with where this team sits with 18 games to go.
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Marlins hold on. Bigger news for the Phils is almost definitely Turner's exit. I'll say this. A lot of the top teams in the NL are dealing with significant injuries. One of the very crappy things about the daily grind of baseball.
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