Chicago Cubs 1. Daniel Descalso (L) 2B 2. Kris Bryant (R) 3B 3. Anthony Rizzo (L) 1B 4. Javier Baez (R) SS 5. Kyle Schwarber (L) LF 6. Albert Almora Jr. (R) CF 7. Jason Heyward (L) RF 8. Victor Caratini (S) C 9. Cole Hamels (L) P
Milwaukee Brewers 1. Lorenzo Cain (R) CF 2. Christian Yelich (L) RF 3. Ryan Braun (R) LF 4. Jesus Aguilar (R) 1B 5. Travis Shaw (L) 3B 6. Hernan Perez (R) 2B 7. Yasmani Grandal (S) C 8. Orlando Arcia (R) SS 9. Corbin Burnes (R) P
Gamenotes Start Time: 6:10pm CST Gametime Temp: 52°F Chance of Precip: 0% Chicago Cubs placed LHP Mike Montgomery on the 10-day injured list retroactive to April 5, 2019. Mild left lat strain. Chicago Cubs designated RHP Jen-Ho Tseng for assignment. Chicago Cubs optioned RHP Carl Edwards Jr. to Iowa Cubs. Chicago Cubs selected the contract of RHP Allen Webster from Iowa Cubs. Chicago Cubs recalled LHP Kyle Ryan from Iowa Cubs.
>Baez is better than Yelich because he has a bigger WAR due to his position Someone told me this today and I wanted all of you Cusbfags to know that he and you are wrong.
>Fly out to the warning track when it sounds like it had good contact. Inb4 Boors have an awkward swing that flies for a home run.
There's one thing that's missing from the clubhouse, and it's a hardass vertern. We used to have Lackey for that, but after he left, no one really took over the role. Maybe the Cubs can bring him back as a coach to at least crack some skulls. or even he'd probably pitch better than some of bullpen give how things are going.
"MAKE IT STOP" based cubs color analyst after that HR
Elijah Mitchell
in regards to the roster moves
>Edwards down to AAA good. the fact the delivery he was using all spring - to good effect - was banned after his first outing fucked with his mechanics. he needs to reset >Webster and Ryan to the Majors both these guys seem whatever, and thats with 100+ innings at the big league level, but Webster is coming off a good spring and Ryan (who's had a little bit more success) had a great year at AAA in 2018. >Jen-Ho Tseng DFA press 'H' to pay no mind. dude was trash above AA
The last resort before a full teardown and rebuild is to trade Schwarber and/or someone else. They are out of valuable prospects and apparently out of money as well.
Ryder Williams
SCOOBY DOOBY DOO CUSB ARE POO THE CUBS FUCKING SUCK NOW
COME ON SCOOBY DOO WHERE IS YU HE GAVE UP 10 HOME RUNS NOW
Hunter Brooks
>Another catcher's interference What the fuck is going on?
>Len pointing out it probably kept Aguilar from getting a home run I'll take it. 3D chess by Caratini
why would the cubs send their best black ball player to the minors...FUCK YOU THEO FUCK YOU RACIST PIECE OF SHIT MOFO
Aaron Howard
fuck off its all joe fault...kill champman, kill edwards, kill morrow, kill strops. joe is a fukken racist piece of shit
Charles Jackson
He'll be back, honestly. I don't think he's special, but they literally banned his mechanics, and Maddon fucking up his confidence by pitching him in a storm where the ball was clearly slipping out of his hand didn't help.
Three days after she made history as the first African American woman elected mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot threw out the ceremonial first pitch for the White Sox home opener against the Mariners.
Cameron King
bruh, look behind you. he's right there.
Jackson Powell
...
Jack Flores
is this true:
White privilege doesn’t mean you won’t get the job. It does mean that the reason you don’t get the job won’t be because you’re white.
Brody Edwards
This is outrageous. Our future as white males is in peril.
Luis Roberts
Watch the Rickets refuse to make the same offer to her. Because they're racist and republican and would sign Hader if they had the chance. Because he's a racist too.
Easton Richardson
Yeah, that way can practice without doing any actual harm to the real world.
I think you make an interesting point, and to follow up on that thought, I would like to make an important note of something, one that I think has been overlooked by society, that the Cubs blow chunks and needed the Ottoman Empire to help win their first two titles, and couldn't win a title between when Arizona became a state and when its baseball team won a World Series, and couldn't win a title in poor old Harry Carey's lifetime RIP.
Benjamin Bell
as long as edwards, dont get the call from the bull pen
Noah Gonzalez
DINGEROONI
Gavin Bell
damn it bros I was just about to call a javy HR
Jaxson Foster
BAEZ WITH A SOLO SHOT HOME RUN AND CAIN IS DOWN. AGAIN. 5-2
Baez just trotting around the bases with his hands up wondering what's going on and then just bolts for it.
That's just cathartic, especially since it's just Baez causing Cain to look like a fool again.
If they wanted to be Wrigley North, they wouldn't become dome babies.
Isaiah Smith
You’re not exactly Mr Current Events, are you?
Jacob Cruz
STOLEN BASE SCHWARBER
Brody Hill
SCHWARBER WITH THE SPEED
Nathaniel Phillips
it was a wild pitch though
Aiden Rivera
Cubs gotta hope Schwarber doesn't quit the team to try out for the 2020 Olympics.
Ryder Brooks
>SHIT STADIUM DESIGN YOU GOT HERE BOORS. This is a super funny thing for someone with the literal worse stadium in baseball, so bad that everyone would rather drive to the next city and watch a road game, to say. Also it makes no sense
Christopher Smith
Fuck Fuck if the Cubs win I'm gonna have a brain aneurysm this losing streak is all I have.
Landon Gutierrez
schwarbie!
Jeremiah Hughes
LUDICROUS SPEED
Aiden Reyes
ALMORA GETS INTO THE GAME WITH A BASE HIT AND SCHWARBER'S AGGRESSIVE BASE RUNNING GETS HIM HOME
Do you understand what fan support even means? Brewers fans cannot stop other cities fans from traveling here, and we don't blame you for wanting to. Doesn't change the fact that the Brewers consistently have better attendance than teams in much larger cities. Milwaukee is the single smallest market in baseball but still gets excellent attendance Which is especially crazy considering how bad the Brewers were historically
Gavin Cruz
wtf i love heyward now
Aaron Mitchell
Heyward with 2, TWO stolen bases tonight!
Caleb Thomas
HEYWARD!!
Christopher Smith
>Bases loaded for Hammels Come on Hammels get a grand slam,
You know modern stadiums just build sufficient bathrooms and then lines are not a problem. Miller Park is definitely not know for long bathroom lines
Chase Rivera
Maybe, let's assume they have one clean inning. But for the other two, they give up at least 2 walks and 2 home runs. That leaves a 1 run cushion for whatever else happens.
Jaxson Myers
CLICC CLICC PULL
Daniel Adams
People in Wisconsin objectively have larger penises than people from Illinois
Brayden Russell
>When the bragging point for a stadium is where people shit Miller Poo!
Benjamin Ross
lmao everyone just gave up on trying cause they thought it was OOTP
ehhhhh not fully. I expect them to give up at least 2 runs
Carter Baker
Use the trough then tiny dick
Landon Miller
HOL UP HOL UP so edwards was the cub jinx or did the others get scare they would be next to be shipped to the minors. this is not the same team
Levi Parker
>Hammels with another 1-2-3 I say leave him out there until he feels he's gassed given the bullpen.
hmm, this Kyle Ryan character has a sweet breaking ball. decent outing.
>troughs are based and you're a liberal who hates tradition if you prefer to "pee" in a urinal I bet y'all would break down crying at the sight of a squat toilet
Daniel Nelson
HRaun
Joshua White
and so it beginning again
Andrew Sullivan
Check him for steroids.
Ryan Watson
It's a baseball stadium in a world class city, not a cabin in the woods.
The early 2018 bullpen was pretty good. The starters shitting the bed and Maddon pulling them early when they were doing alright was what destroyed it.
Adrian Thomas
>tfw Theo Epstein agologizes
Zachary Gutierrez
sorry it was a typo
Xavier James
Anyone else notice when the Cubs are winning and the shitposters flee, these gamethreads are really comfy?
They should move the blue jays to Montreal and rename them the Expos.
Julian Scott
>tfw your team has to put up double-digit runs to stand a chance
Austin Murphy
>Yelshit the rally killer
it's a meme stadium where there's a giant wall right behind the fence so a lot of times a home run will just bounce off the wall and come back onto the field.
desu epstein better be on the phone with multiple organizations and offering blowies for bullpen help
Hunter Barnes
He needs the Ricketts to open up the wallet, to sign some free agents, everyone was saying the bullpen was the cubs #1 issue and they did nothing to address it.
Brandon Cox
>Brewers throwing at Cubs heads Stay classsy pissconsin
Liam Robinson
they're already the second highest payroll in the game
they stayed in the harper sweepstakes way too long and couldn't get relievers, so instead they got nothing
Carter Wood
>This 'banter' against Rizzo
Isaac Howard
Im okay with this
they have the money to spend, even though theyre above the first luxury tax threshold they still have something like $25 million before the next one (which does shit like drop your top draft pick down 10 spots...) thats enough to sign a few pitchers, including Kimbrel if you give him a one year deal what im thinking is the FO wants to save in order to dish out extensions to Bryant, Baez, Rizzo, etc.
Grayson Barnes
And? They can go full Yankees for all I care, the owners are billionaires.
Benjamin King
I couldn't hear it, what were they saying?
Christopher Young
>Bottom of the 9th >6 run lead >Bullpen has given up a 3 run homer in the last 2 innings. Hang on to your butts.
I just watched the game, Aguilar didn't just graze Caratini's glove, he got the whole thing, that drag is going to reduce the power of the bat and considering he got all of it, if the mitt wasn't there, Aguilar is going deep.