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>Oakland Athletics
1. Marcus Semien (R) SS
2. Matt Chapman (R) 3B
3. Matt Olson (L) 1B
4. Mark Canha (R) CF
5. Chad Pinder (R) 2B
6. Stephen Piscotty (R) RF
7. Robbie Grossman (S) LF
8. Dustin Garneau (R) C
9. Brett Anderson (L) P

>Chicago Cubs
1. Jason Heyward (L) RF
2. Nicholas Castellanos (R) LF
3. Kris Bryant (R) 3B
4. Anthony Rizzo (L) 1B
5. Javier Baez (R) SS
6. Albert Almora Jr. (R) CF
7. David Bote (R) 2B
8. Victor Caratini (S) C
9. Jon Lester (L) P

Game Notes
▩ Start Time: 7:05pm CST
▩ Gametime Temp: 76°F
▩ Chance of Precip: 0%
▩ Chicago Cubs place RHP Brandon Kintzler on the 10-day IL with right pectoral inflammation
▩ Chicago Cubs activate RHP Pedro Strop from the 10-day IL.
▩ Ben Zobrist to continue his rehab assignment at Class-A Myrtle Beach on Thursday.
▩ Cubs reportedly interested in signing Jonathan Lucroy

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>Strop is back.

Welcome back Strop

Be positive, give Strop your positive energy!

Almora is a bum bring back lastella

Ok, I'll try.

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>Strop
This is the only year of Strop's 7 year stint with the cubs that his era is above 3. Hopefully he can return to form.

>Lucroy
He's a bum, but not quite as big a bum as davis. Not worth giving up anything but some cash to get him.

>Lester
He still looks like shit. wtf

first time with carantini gotta be ruff

>Lester getting blown up early
Fucking hell.

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At this rate, Lester is going to walk one in.

He was due to have an outing like this.

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Top of the 2nd, and the game is over.

>two in a row

When it rains it pours

>lelster

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Free acupuncture for Caratini.

Go pirates and doyers I guess

Jesus Christ, how did Caratini not break his wrist on that play?

Last one was a shit outting, this is him getting completely destroyed

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Fucking Almora catches that ball and the timeline changes.

That's baseball.

Lester doesn't throw meatballs the whole inning, and the timeline changes.

Maddon wanders drunkenly onto the field and berates the umpiring and the timeline changes.

Willy would have made the play

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>CUSB

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>Willy recommending a personal injury lawyer

please have mercy

These MLBtv YouTube things they show instead of commercials are cancer

lifelongs are cancer

Lester not giving in just yet.

Lester on base!
Time for the counter attack to begin.

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No more, pleaae

>risp

Lookin' good

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>cubes

lmao

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At least we'll get to see position players pitch today. No way Maddon is going to burn the pen on a lost cause game given the pen is being held together by duct tape and glue.

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>Strikes out the side
Underwood looking good

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I like your attitude

Now we just need 3 straight grand slams

Well after today I gotta say I can no longer root for the cubs. Go dodgers!

Thank god they held on last night

MERCY PLEASE NO MORE!!!

cusebes getting fucked harder than that black dude is fucking Ben Zobrists wife LMAO

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Underwood is a god wtf

>6 up
>6 strikes outs
We got a positive story out of this game with Underwood.

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Do you think Ben will stop crying about robo umps when he finally comes back? After all, he’s not very good at calling when balls have been close to someone’s crotch LOL

BRYANT WITH A 2 RUN HOMER!

2-11
Down, but never out.

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woohoo

Switch = flipped

3/10

Underwood is having a nice little comeback
And talk about a SWINGman

I wanna see schwarber pitch
He has a good arm, never done it, and used to be a catcher. Plus the meme value is priceless

just got here

did baez get injured

should i get my gun and end it all

based delusional weebtard

cubs have come back from worse desu

Preparing to eat more shit in 2019 redditor?

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sorry sir

>i-i-it happened once before surely it'll happen again

happ-y

>Being this nervous

Taylor Davis makes his pitching debut!

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>Preparing to eat more shit in 2019 redditor?
I'm not a cusb fan so no

>coping this hard

>Being this butthurt

>leave game for a bit
>taylor davis pitching
>schwarbie catching

Bravo Maddon

butthurt about what? My team didn't give up 11 runs today

>Being this butthurt

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What a glorious inning

Is it, dare I say, our year?

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>Bases load
>No outs
>Don't score.
Nice work by Taylor to get out of it.

But the A's were being classy and didn't try to run on that fly out.
Thanks guys.

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Elite infield defence
Davis career ERA 0.00
We should use this battery more often

>Schwarber Davis battery
And they got the force out at home

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>Bullpen gave up no runs tonight

That's definitely a good thing that the lower rung guys delivered tonight.
We'll have to see if Underwood and Holland can keep that up.

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Love me some schwarbie

A’s legend Jon Lester sure looked like shit tonight.

BASE HIT BY SCHWARBER (the Catcher) BOTE AND CARATINI SCORES!
4-11

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Sometimes he is just awful

Check'em man gets another double!

>Wrigley still pretty full
>Taylor chant
Best fans in baseball.

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gg a's see ya tomorrow

Well, to big of a deficient to overcome, but the pen looked great.
And we had some fun in the 9th with Davis pitching.
(To be fair, the A's were being classy and didn't try to run aggressively.)

Let's hope Caratini doesn't die, I don't want to see a Davis and Lucroy battery.

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gg cubes

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rubber match tomorrow lads

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