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>A visit from a former Cubs player
What a terrible job that must be, visiting a bunch of richfags or empty corporate suits who don't care about the game.

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RUSSELL WITH A 2 RUN HOMER!
3-2

Better late than never.

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dumb
darvish doesn't deserve the win at all

RIZZO WITH A DOUBLE OFF THE BULLPEN DOOR! SCHWARBER AND BRYANT SCORES!

5-2

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inb4 TRFP

>Reds pitcher gives up many runs
>Cubs pitcher doesn’t give up many runs
>Cubs pitcher doesn’t deserve the win
???

Truckee River Flood Project?

Does Baez need to stand closer to the plate?

Cubs will NOT lose more than 2 in a row again this year

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If Baez wasn't crippled, he could have run that out.

>Cubs smack line drive bullets that break the sound barrier
>The ball is a glove-seaking missile that even a paralyzed chimp could catch just by standing still

>Opposing team taps a weak bowling ball directly into the ground
>Somehow finds a hole in one of the best defensive infields in all of baseball

how the fuck does this happen every single time?

need a replay of that foul line

basically me in the show. square up fastballs that line straight to a fucking OF

It's shit.

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>Darvish in the 5th inning

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now if only winker wouldn't have hit into a DP. fuck

HEYWARD WITH A WIND ASSISTED HOME RUN!
6-4

Desperately needed insurance.

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is the wind blowing out?

Come on Darvish, stop giving the game away.

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that looked like a routine popout and almost ended up being gone

>cusb

That was less than a foot away from being a home run, nice leaping grab by Heyward too.

>Maples and Ryan warming up
Better get out of this inning without increasing your WHIP, otherwise your ERA's going up too Darvish.

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This is it. The post that killed dullahanfag. Also checked

>Darvish made it through the 7th.
His longest outing for the Cubs, can't get a quality start, but still in line for the win.

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Aint that alita?

Quads cannot stop the Grim Reaper.

A shitty bullpen on the other hand...

Alita was Rosa Salazar.

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This latest Baez drought is painful, he hasn't gotten a hit all game.

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>Darvish is still out there

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might as well try to save the bullpen and give him a shot for another clean inning to tidy up the ERA hit

lmao spoke too soon

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Oh, we can't have nice things.
At least it's not the bullpen's fault Darvish can't get a win this time.

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tough break for him, it actually doesn't feel like as bad a start as he normally is. The wind is killer though today.

>Save the bullpen
There's no one to trust in a high leverage situation left. Even the decent ones have been shitting the bed. After the draft, the Cubs better sign some relievers. Screw the tax.

>Ryan in
>Against Barnhart
Looks like Darvish is getting the loss now.

POO DARSHIT HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAH

fuck thats a clean uni

fuck every pitcher on this team

>Ryan strikes out Barnhart
>Maples is in
Get the blindfolds ready.

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CAUGHT STEALING

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WE SURVIVED!

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yu shouldn't have gone into the 7th

he definitely shouldn't have been out there after he gave up his 4th home run

jesus H

This sums up Caranti's would be hit.

it happens ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

BOTE WITH A DOUBLE! ALMORA SCORES! RUSSELL TO THIRD!
7-6

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BOTE

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if this game gets to the bottom of the 9th i'm gonna cry

Sac fly by schwarber to score Russell!
8-6

Much, MUCH, needed insurance.

>Intentionally walking Bryant
Incoming homer by Rizzo to force the reds to respect him.

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You were supposed to make them respect you Riz.

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>Kintzler is trash again
>Cishek is not worth every penny
>Edwards cannot into high leverage situations
>Brach is out on rest
>Chatwood is out on rest
>Monty is out on rest
We got Ryan and Maples and given their track record, you don't want them in a high leverage situation either. There's Collin's too, but if this went into extra, he's going to be the closest to a long reliever they got.

Darvish was getting smacked around, but the bullpen is on fums with only iffy arms left. Maddon actually made the right call putting Darvish out there again.

I have no idea who's going out for the 9th because we don't have anyone who's closer tier.

Please god, just let it be a clean inning

No base runners, no drama. Let the Cubs win. PLEASE.

>chatwood out on rest

apologize

>No baserunners
>No drama
>Chatwood against the top of the order
You should become an atheist because your god has clearly abandoned you.

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>Maddon would rather use a short rest Chatwood as a closer than anyone else.
This is really, really REALLY bad.

>2 on
>no outs
Chatwood's going to give up a home run now given the bullpen's track record.

DOUBLE PLAY!
We might get out of this after all.

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wew

[W]

No easy wins these days, that's all I can say.
Chatwood gets his first save as a Cub.

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this fucking bullpen though, maybe they can put in an offer for kimbrel after the draft.. gg reds

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>We could give the player of the game to Russell who had 3 hits including a 2 run homer, but we're not allowed to do that so we'll give it to Bote
What the fuck.

CHADwood!

From Shatwood to Chadgood. Nice save.

>russell
>good hitter

>3 for 4 with 2 R and 2 RBIs

FUCK YOU THEO FUCK YOU...TRADE RIZZO FOR PITCHING