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Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 20

There were a lot of big plays in Tuesday night's game, but the triple by Addison Russell into the teeth of the wind propelled him to the top of the Heroes in the Cubs' 4-3 win.

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Hey Rizz... you need to look a little happier, dude.

Graphs for Game 20 (courtesy of Fangraphs):

Game 20 Chart 2016

Stats for Game 20:

Pitcher

IP

H

HR

ER

BB

SO

pLI

WPA

H Rondon

1

1

0

0

0

1

2.25

.155

A Warren

2

0

0

0

0

3

0.94

.140

K Hendricks

5

2

0

1

1

4

0.88

.126

T Wood

0.1

0

0

0

0

0

2.91

.081

P Strop

0.2

1

0

2

2

1

1.73

-.144

Total

9

4

0

3

3

9

1.26

.359

Batter

AB

R

H

HR

RBI

BB

SO

pLI

WPA

A Russell

4

0

2

0

2

0

0

1.62

.328

K Bryant

3

1

1

0

0

1

1

0.78

.100

B Zobrist

2

1

0

0

0

2

0

1.12

.022

M Szczur

1

0

1

0

0

0

0

0.5

.019

T La Stella

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

2.4

.014

J Baez

2

1

1

0

0

0

1

0.67

.005

D Fowler

3

0

0

0

1

1

2

1.35

-.017

K Hendricks

1

0

0

0

0

0

1

0.76

-.019

D Ross

3

0

1

0

0

0

1

1.38

-.034

J Soler

2

1

0

0

0

1

1

1.84

-.038

A Rizzo

4

0

1

0

1

0

1

1.39

-.063

J Heyward

5

0

0

0

0

0

1

1.32

-.176

Total

30

4

7

0

4

6

9

1.27

.141

Writer's Note: The daily selections of the three Heroes and three Goats are based solely on the top three and bottom three WPA scores for the game. The selections are not based on my subjective opinion.

THE THREE HEROES:

  • Superhero - Addison Russell (.328).  On a night where it looked like it was going to take a lot of small-ball to claw out runs, his booming triple into the gap in right-center came up huge.
  • Hero - Hector Rondon (.155).  I'm probably not the only one who was thinking "Oh, ****" when the ball left Aaron Hill's bat.  Thankfully it turned out to just be a long, high flyout.
  • Sidekick - Adam Warren (.140).  Performed the swingman role to perfection with two 1-2-3 innings in the sixth and seventh.

THE THREE GOATS:

  • Billy Goat - Jason Heyward (-.176).  Some nights you leave six guys on base.  The WPA gods do notice these things, though.
  • Goat - Pedro Strop (-.144).  He hadn't allowed an unintentional walk yet this season until the two he gave up Tuesday night.  He ended up paying for both of them.
  • Kid - Anthony Rizzo (-.063).  His run-scoring "double" in the seventh inning kept him from a worse podium fate. And as you can tell from the tweet above, there was much rejoicing.

RANKINGS THROUGH GAME 20: Russell takes a big step away from the cellar door while Heyward falls a bit deeper into the quicksand.

Heroes

1st

2nd

3rd

Total

Anthony Rizzo

3

2.5

1.5

15.5

Addison Russell

2

3

0

12

Dexter Fowler

1

2

4

11

Jason Hammel

3

0

1

10

Jake Arrieta

3

0

0

9

Jon Lester

3

0

0

9

Jorge Soler

1

1

3

8

Kris Bryant

0.5

2.5

1

7.5

Miguel Montero

1.5

1

0.5

7

Jason Heyward

0

3

0

6

Adam Warren

0

2

1

5

Hector Rondon

0

1

2

4

John Lackey

1

0

0

3

Kyle Hendricks

1

0

0

3

Matt Szczur

0

1

0

2

Pedro Strop

0

1

0

2

Ben Zobrist

0

0

2

2

David Ross

0

0

1

1

Justin Grimm

0

0

1

1

Neil Ramirez

0

0

1

1

Tommy La Stella

0

0

1

1

Goats

1st

2nd

3rd

Total

Jason Heyward

3

5

0

19

Addison Russell

5

0

2

17

Kris Bryant

1.5

4.5

0

13.5

Dexter Fowler

3

0

1

10

Ben Zobrist

1

2

3

10

Anthony Rizzo

1.5

1.5

2

9.5

Jorge Soler

1

1

2

7

John Lackey

2

0

0

6

Trevor Cahill

1

1

0

5

Miguel Montero

0

2

1

5

Kyle Hendricks

1

0

1

4

Pedro Strop

0

2

0

4

Matt Szczur

0

1

0

2

Tommy La Stella

0

0

2

2

David Ross

0

0

1

1

Javier Baez

0

0

1

1

Jon Lester

0

0

1

1

Kyle Schwarber

0

0

1

1

Neil Ramirez

0

0

1

1

Travis Wood

0

0

1

1

Overall

Hero

Goat

+/-

Jason Hammel

10

0

10

Jake Arrieta

9

0

9

Jon Lester

9

1

8

Anthony Rizzo

15.5

9.5

6

Adam Warren

5

0

5

Hector Rondon

4

0

4

Miguel Montero

7

5

2

Dexter Fowler

11

10

1

Jorge Soler

8

7

1

Justin Grimm

1

0

1

Matt Szczur

2

2

0

David Ross

1

1

0

Neil Ramirez

1

1

0

Kyle Hendricks

3

4

-1

Tommy La Stella

1

2

-1

Javier Baez

0

1

-1

Kyle Schwarber

0

1

-1

Travis Wood

0

1

-1

Pedro Strop

2

4

-2

John Lackey

3

6

-3

Addison Russell

12

17

-5

Trevor Cahill

0

5

-5

Kris Bryant

7.5

13.5

-6

Ben Zobrist

2

10

-8

Jason Heyward

6

19

-13