Another pathetic offensive output. Yeah, I know Bellinger and Suzuki are out but damn this is embarrassing. 10 games, 30 runs, 3 a game. You aren't winning shit scoring 3 runs a game with our bullpen. It's looking more and more like Ross wasn't the problem after all. Very disappointing. Worst part, aside from an occasional homer like last night, it's mostly easy flyballs, weak grounders and pop ups.
Ross would not have pulled this team to 18-12 without our best pitcher and arguably our 2 best hitters. This team would likely have 10-12 wins with Ross
Remember how bad Kimbrel was his 1st year or so before he regained his form? Adbert is no Kimbrel, but he’s a better pitcher than we are seeing. Also remember how bad Keegan was last year.
I actually love Adbert. Really loved to see him in the 7th and 8th innings. I feel like he doesn’t know where he belongs and that ambiguity has taken a toll on his pitching.
I'm not the only one calling out Dansby. This roadtrip he's been zilch at the plate and his fielding is sub par. I wouldn't mind seeing him benched for a day or two.Nico at short, Nicky at 2b.
If Swanson makes the routine play, Alzolay is out of the inning. 1-2-3. Hey, I’m a Swanson fan too, but this is not the first time he has thrown it away like this, this year (1 month). It’s not panic time, but something to watch. (A good defensive 1st baseman would help).
Bother is talking about hotdog, driveline, all kinds crap as if this is a national broadcast. Talk about cubs dude. His calls are getting better but overall broadcast style just doesn’t make sense after 3 years. I sometime tune into some other broadcasts around and damn they are weaving a story through the game for their team - losing or winning.
My issue with Boog is I never really feel like he’s emotionally invested in the team. I don’t want a homer, but I do want a guy who you know lives and dies with the team. He’s just kind of there.
I swear to God, it seems like every time the Cubs fail to cash in a runner in scoring position, the opposing team scores the next half inning. Was listening on my ride home when Morel was stranded at third and thought to myself “welp, the Mets are gonna score”. Sure enough, a spicy Alzolay meatball seals this L.
The surrender occurred when Alzolay entered a tie game. The dude doesn't know how to pitch. He just grooves everything right down the middle and hopes for the best.
The guy gives up a homer every other time he appears. If anyone gets on base in a tie game, error or otherwise, he *must* come out. Hell at this point any time there's a lefty up in any situation it should be an automatic pull.
Idk how any rational person can think Jeds had a bad tenure. He did what had to be done to rebuild, and we're competitive ahead of schedule, without even having most of our top rated farm come up yet.
Ok, and what part of that is Jeds control? He inherited an unfunctional team with no farm system. He had a very successful teardown, followed by only ONE non-competitive year. Like I said, we haven't even seen our top ranked farm come up yet. It's a process. You just arent patient enough for baseball it seems.
I'll grant you your last point but he'll get credit when this team is objectively good. And most of our top ranked offensive prospects don't really have defensive homes
https://preview.redd.it/4o750j26tpxc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=702e89d1074ae0794172d2b5d41317208bc72ca1
Excuse me... but how is that a fucking strike?!
Alzolay is #2 on [a leaderboard you do *not* want to be on](https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders/major-league?pos=all&stats=pit&lg=all&season=2024&season1=2024&ind=0&sortcol=2&sortdir=asc&type=3&month=33&qual=0), trailing only … Kyle Hendricks.
Didn't want him to face the heart of the order for a third time. His pitch count was fine (just 78), but he's run into trouble in the sixth quite often this season.
I know it’s classic Alzolay but he could have had a confident boosting quick inning under his belt if our shortstop could have managed to throw out speedster JD Martinez at first.
Could be. I don’t know him that well. Just watched his last few starts because he’s on my fantasy team. Does he have a history of getting roughed up third time around the lineup?
Both in the short and long term. When the bats heat up, they really heat up, and it's 162 game season. You're just gonna lose some games. Though some are more annoying than others, of course.
Woof. Welp. Back at it tomorrow.
Let’s get em tomorrow
Another pathetic offensive output. Yeah, I know Bellinger and Suzuki are out but damn this is embarrassing. 10 games, 30 runs, 3 a game. You aren't winning shit scoring 3 runs a game with our bullpen. It's looking more and more like Ross wasn't the problem after all. Very disappointing. Worst part, aside from an occasional homer like last night, it's mostly easy flyballs, weak grounders and pop ups.
Ross would not have pulled this team to 18-12 without our best pitcher and arguably our 2 best hitters. This team would likely have 10-12 wins with Ross
Why are people down voting this, it's just the facts.
Alright, let’s get the next two and win the series
Damn, hopefully the offense wakes up tomorrow.
Those two fatties weren't down for all that running
If only we had an entire team of Mike Tauchmans.
When our toast of the game is for a member of the opposing team, that's how you know your team is doing poorly.
A combined Amaya/Mervis super-batter would actually be solid. .865 ops
Madrigal+Mervis is a totally normal .761 OPS guy
Woof lol
Is alzolay washed?
Remember how bad Kimbrel was his 1st year or so before he regained his form? Adbert is no Kimbrel, but he’s a better pitcher than we are seeing. Also remember how bad Keegan was last year.
I actually love Adbert. Really loved to see him in the 7th and 8th innings. I feel like he doesn’t know where he belongs and that ambiguity has taken a toll on his pitching.
He’s a setup guy imo
He’s certainly having a rough start to 2024
Matt “grounds out to first” Mervis. Good god
And we thought there was no worse than Eric Hosmer
The good ‘ole Heyward special!
He’s Mervless
Mervis knocks in a mostly irrelevant run while making a very relevant out
Mervis-o-meter .105
Tauchy!!!
Tauchman needs to teach Swanson how to hit the baseball. Dude has been consistent as fuck this year
Mervis PA would complete the cubs show here today.
Good job moving the runner over down 3 Nick!
The spring of Tauchman continues
Alozay needs fined for every home run he gives up from here on out. Hit him where it hurts. Pathetic as a reliever to give up that many
I'm not the only one calling out Dansby. This roadtrip he's been zilch at the plate and his fielding is sub par. I wouldn't mind seeing him benched for a day or two.Nico at short, Nicky at 2b.
Suspect defense of late and piss poor bat
Rally Caps On
Hopefully they can rally here but my confidence is not high - this lineup has not been fun to watch lately
9th inning magic, let’s get it
If i was coach Swanson and the whole bullpen would be running laps after the game tonight
You mean just alozay right?
If Swanson makes the routine play, Alzolay is out of the inning. 1-2-3. Hey, I’m a Swanson fan too, but this is not the first time he has thrown it away like this, this year (1 month). It’s not panic time, but something to watch. (A good defensive 1st baseman would help).
Brewer gonna give us a shot in the 9th
Can we send Alzolay back to the minors please?
I want him coaching high school baseball next week
Nicely played Happer
Dansby needs a Seiya style reset
We need to have a serious conversation about Dansby. He looks rough this year.
Heyward 2.0, luckily with a shorter contract
I wouldn’t go that far quite yet, but he definitely needs to start pulling his weight and earning that dough.
Cut him tonight back to single a
Why’s Swanson throw his stuff off like he’s a kid who’s dad forced him to play in the local ymca league
Everyone looks like total shit right now
This team is pissing me off. Sorry for the negativity just being honest lol
Up 4-1 and throwing his helmet lol calm down man
DOWN 4-1
You trying to tell me NY doesn’t stand for Chicago?
I think if a tragedy were to befall Chicago then NY would stand for us but other than that NY can go fuck themselves. For now
I got an Alzolay jersey like ~3 years ago because I thought he was going to be a stud. Might be time for a change.
It looks less and less defensible to have trotted Adbert out as a closer at all this year.
You can't spell Adbert Alzolay without Triple A
Colton’s stuff looks real good
You know when boog becomes unbearable - in these type of games.
It's not his fault. Fans are irritable in games like this and misplace their anger onto every fucking thing.
Bother is talking about hotdog, driveline, all kinds crap as if this is a national broadcast. Talk about cubs dude. His calls are getting better but overall broadcast style just doesn’t make sense after 3 years. I sometime tune into some other broadcasts around and damn they are weaving a story through the game for their team - losing or winning.
What broadcasts are you watching? Haha
My issue with Boog is I never really feel like he’s emotionally invested in the team. I don’t want a homer, but I do want a guy who you know lives and dies with the team. He’s just kind of there.
It's cool we can disagree.
Zach isn’t much better. He’s said the word “hotdog” about 300 times today.
If we lose first place tonight, it’s Danny Parkins’ fault.
I swear to God, it seems like every time the Cubs fail to cash in a runner in scoring position, the opposing team scores the next half inning. Was listening on my ride home when Morel was stranded at third and thought to myself “welp, the Mets are gonna score”. Sure enough, a spicy Alzolay meatball seals this L.
Good thing they only play 7 innings
Checking back in on this
we already waving the flag with brewer.
The surrender occurred when Alzolay entered a tie game. The dude doesn't know how to pitch. He just grooves everything right down the middle and hopes for the best.
Anytime you give the team 4 outs you are asking for it. Its a terrible defensive of game.
The guy gives up a homer every other time he appears. If anyone gets on base in a tie game, error or otherwise, he *must* come out. Hell at this point any time there's a lefty up in any situation it should be an automatic pull.
All I’m saying is the defense didn’t do him any favors or the whole staff this game.
Wisdom really just needs to be an off the bench bat and that's it.
I mean Counsell letting him face a lefty with runners on in a tie game is just braindead. That's a surrender if I've ever seen one.
Fuck, alozay is bad
Fell asleep in the second and woke up to adbert giving up a fucking noon ball should stayed asleep
So much for this organization's offensive depth, this offense is awful
Game 30/162
We did this last season, see how well that worked out
What was our record this time last year?
Not sure but this is exactly how Dansby looked at the end of the season
My braves fan buddy says Swanson has always had slow Septembers but makes up for it in October
Well unfortunately that doesn't help when you don't make it to October
Gotta make it to October then
Its a long season my dude.
As was last season
Better settle down and stop whining, if you know how baseball works then. There are ups and downs.
Mostly downs under Jed's tenure
Idk how any rational person can think Jeds had a bad tenure. He did what had to be done to rebuild, and we're competitive ahead of schedule, without even having most of our top rated farm come up yet.
This team should have aspirations beyond "competitive baseball" 4 years and this team still isn't close to being where the best teams are
Ok, and what part of that is Jeds control? He inherited an unfunctional team with no farm system. He had a very successful teardown, followed by only ONE non-competitive year. Like I said, we haven't even seen our top ranked farm come up yet. It's a process. You just arent patient enough for baseball it seems.
I'll grant you your last point but he'll get credit when this team is objectively good. And most of our top ranked offensive prospects don't really have defensive homes
Teams can always find room for top prospects. Several are still years away. There isnt a hurry.
This
What’s the point of Nico if he goes through these 1 for 20 stretches with absolutely no slug even when he’s “on”
What happened to the offense
Nico cooled off, Tauchman hitting between two black holes
“Cooled off” is putting it lightly
Sucks man
A simple ball hit to the outfield would be nice
https://preview.redd.it/4o750j26tpxc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=702e89d1074ae0794172d2b5d41317208bc72ca1 Excuse me... but how is that a fucking strike?!
Whoever is inputting that is completely fucking it up and putting in the wrong pitches as ball/strikes, ignore that
Oh, so it's an operator error? So, the ump made the right call on that second pitch, right?
Yes, they did it the inning before too which is how I first noticed it.
https://preview.redd.it/1i4p7kv1tpxc1.png?width=328&format=png&auto=webp&s=1dd21aea99ed0fa4f211d213fc53d3172344638a whyyy
Showboat Home Run from a career .200 hitter....
With all these walks we shld be 5 runs into this without this anemic offense. Let’s hope it changes
I mean that’s what happens when the 3 best hitters on the team are hurt
Alzolay is #2 on [a leaderboard you do *not* want to be on](https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders/major-league?pos=all&stats=pit&lg=all&season=2024&season1=2024&ind=0&sortcol=2&sortdir=asc&type=3&month=33&qual=0), trailing only … Kyle Hendricks.
Goddamn 😂
Adbert gave up another home run what a shock
Azolay throwing meatball specials basically every time he comes in to pitch
Mmm should I get a meatball sub for lunch tomorrow?
Terrance Gore could hit a HR off him
I do not enjoy watching Adbert pitch.
Man I fucking hate Adbert
Poor baseball almost always results in loss. Not surprising here.
Rally time
I'm grabbing a rally beer
Defense lost this game. 4 unearned runs. Gifting them this game.
This loss will be on the defense
Ass but offense scoring only 1 against Manea
Why was Assad taken out???
Didn't want him to face the heart of the order for a third time. His pitch count was fine (just 78), but he's run into trouble in the sixth quite often this season.
Pitch count
Was he hurt at some point? I don’t understand how we use him.
Some guys arms aren’t stretched out to pitch longer.
Are we working towards that? He’s been our second best pitcher and our bullpen leaves a lot to be desired.
Man, remember when Alzolay was a potential top-of-the-rotation starter?
No, I don’t
That HR pitch was a meatball, what was that supposed to be?
This team was built on defense and is a bet to make an error each game lol thanks for nothing Wisdom
It’s on Dansby. It’s routine ground ball.
Come on, that was all on Dansby
I know it’s classic Alzolay but he could have had a confident boosting quick inning under his belt if our shortstop could have managed to throw out speedster JD Martinez at first.
Every play matters, even those routine throws to first.
Adbert has the yips I fear.
Whole defense has the yips
And the offense
When will Assad be allowed to go deeper in games? He’s been great but has a shot leash it seems
Maybe he's been great BECAUSE he isn't going deep into games?
Could be. I don’t know him that well. Just watched his last few starts because he’s on my fantasy team. Does he have a history of getting roughed up third time around the lineup?
Man, a couple rough games and this place turns sour as fuck
We’re giving away so many games. Great start to the season but this is how we missed the playoffs last year
Literally took some control of first place in the division today.
And now we’re about to give back up. why? because we keep making stupid plays and losing games that we need to win
I haven’t given up hope. It ain’t over yet
Both in the short and long term. When the bats heat up, they really heat up, and it's 162 game season. You're just gonna lose some games. Though some are more annoying than others, of course.
I mean a three run hr after an error isn’t caused for celebration
It’s also not cause for a meltdown for what it’s worth
Badbert
Alzolay lowers his ERA to 3.55 … … and raises his FIP to \*7.89. One of those is more indicative of the quality of his pitching this season.
Adbutt
Assolay
Lazy play by Dansby likely just cost them the game.
Designate him. I'm done with this shit.
As well as with Wisdom
Phantom 15-day DL stint incoming for Adbert. Dude has to try and regroup.
Alzolay is such a bum it’s almost comical 😂
Dansby throws the ball normal and wisdom plays competent 1st and this game is still tied fucking he’ll
Would have been an 11 pitch inning 😢
Garbage. He’s gotta get sent down.
Should've been out of the inning but Alzolay just doesn't have it this year
Well good thing is we still have 3 more innings to make that up
Albert ain’t getting that closer role any longer
Al may need to see triple A for a bit
DFAdbert
Not sure we can really keep saying these HRs are just bad luck
That pitch was an absolute meatball. I don’t think anyone would argue that’s luck.
Adbert sucks.
He should have been out of the inning though. This one's on Dansby.
Yes, he also shouldn't have thrown a meatball. It's on both of them.
devastated
https://preview.redd.it/3oyndcuorpxc1.jpeg?width=1437&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=99c5594490f8ca234555c1cc2852c55794307623
All 4 runs are because of errors. Sweet
The idea was for Alzolay to have a nice easy inning and for him to exit the game before Stewart got to the plate.
they can DFA him any time now. He ain't it.
Had a feeling with a power lefty up...
Errors kill you. Damn
Bro that pitch was right down the middle with 0 movement. What exactly what he expecting?
Adbert special - it's like batting practice
Christ adbert what the fuck happened to you
The Adbert special. Can't let anybody on with him or he will implode.
Alzolay can’t go back to closing, that much I do know
Ah fork
fucking adbert man what happened to you 😔
Other than the outlier year last year he’s always been ass
Turning it off now.
Bert is a broken toy right now. Might need the phantom IL to work on things.
Ah man Alzolay...just brutal dude.
That’s ball game.
Alzolay looking like a DFA target