Bleed Cubbie Blue - Cubs vs. Phillies Wednesday game threadsA Chicago Cubs Fan Community Since February 9, 2005https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/47557/cubbieblue.png2018-06-07T08:00:07-05:00http://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/rss/stream/171807052018-06-07T08:00:07-05:002018-06-07T08:00:07-05:00Cubs 7, Phillies 5: Jason Heyward walks it off with a grand slam
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<p>This game seemed utterly lost. And then, in an instant, it became a thrilling win.</p> <p id="ITRK2R"><a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/ct-spt-cubs-mets-20180603-story.html">This quote from Joe Maddon</a>, from the recent road trip to New York and Pittsburgh, sums up <a href="http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/news/boxscore.jsp?gid=2018_06_06_phimlb_chnmlb_1">Wednesday’s 7-5 win over the Phillies</a> very well:</p>
<blockquote><p id="MvwsVs">“There are games we could have lost that we won,” Maddon said Sunday after a 2-0 victory that completed a four-game sweep of the <a href="https://www.amazinavenue.com/">Mets</a>. “That’s what you should be saying when you’re good. When you break it down, it went in your favor because you did those little things well. That’s what we’re talking about. That’s what gets you over the top.”</p></blockquote>
<p id="gnU7Es">No doubt, the <a href="https://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/">Cubs</a> could have lost Wednesday’s game, but instead won in thrilling fashion. Between questionable managing decisions, a rare bullpen failure and inability to blow the game open in the early innings, the Cubs entered the bottom of the ninth trailing by two.</p>
<p id="Y6rioz">Usually, these recaps talk about the game in more or less chronological order, but this one ended in such surprising and amazing fashion that I’m going to start at the end.</p>
<p id="FpRzv0"><span>Kyle Schwarber</span> drew a four-pitch walk to begin the last of the ninth, and one out later <span>Albert Almora Jr.</span> singled and <span>Ian Happ</span> walked to load the bases. Now, there would seem to be a chance to at least tie the game. But <span>Ben Zobrist</span> hit a comebacker that turned into a force play at the plate.</p>
<p id="HgwZkr">That brought up <span>Jason Heyward</span>, who had been 0-for-4 on the night and who entered the game 5-for-36 (.139) against lefthanded pitchers with no extra-base hits.</p>
<p id="fKCym1">That’s what made what happened next against lefty <span>Adam Morgan</span> so unusual, surprising, shocking, incredible... <a href="https://www.mlb.com/video/heywards-walk-off-grand-slam/c-2126932683?tid=240570844">here, watch [VIDEO]</a>.</p>
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<p id="fWliTc">Here is just how rare Heyward’s game-winning grand slam was:</p>
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<li id="x6h2N5">It was the first walkoff home run of Heyward’s career, of a total of 118 homers.</li>
<li id="soAa3J">It was just the second slam of Heyward’s career and the first in almost seven years. The other one? Off Cubs righthander <span>Casey Coleman</span>, <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN201108230.shtml">August 23, 2011 at Wrigley Field</a>.</li>
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<p id="DXTX4K">Also, this:</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Jason Heyward's walkoff grand slam came on the 2 year anniversary of his 100th career home run.<br><br>Both were off Adam Morgan<br><br>Morgan also allowed David Ross's 100th career HR (5/27/16)<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cubs?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cubs</a></p>— Christopher Kamka (@ckamka) <a href="https://twitter.com/ckamka/status/1004588290098499584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2018</a>
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<p id="QR3YyO">And this:</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/Cubs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Cubs</a> Jason Heyward's walk off grand slam was off a 97.2 MPH fastball... That's the 3rd hardest pitch he's ever hit for a home run.</p>— Daren Willman (@darenw) <a href="https://twitter.com/darenw/status/1004566443202105345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2018</a>
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<p id="vnfZb6">For the Cubs, it was their first walkoff slam since <span>Alfonso Soriano</span> did it <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN200907270.shtml">July 27, 2009</a> against the <a href="https://www.crawfishboxes.com/">Astros</a>. <a href="https://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2014/5/7/5690800/history-cubs-walkoff-grand-slams">Here’s a full history of Cubs walkoff slams</a> I wrote here in 2014.</p>
<p id="9mCuNd">And, to cap that all off, this:</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Jason Heyward: first <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cubs?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cubs</a> walkoff grand slam **hit when team was trailing** since Ron Santo 9/25/1968</p>— Christopher Kamka (@ckamka) <a href="https://twitter.com/ckamka/status/1004567882238394368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2018</a>
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<p id="gO5gBs"><a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN196809250.shtml">Here’s the boxscore from that game.</a> The Cubs had been behind 1-0 that day and had only two hits until the ninth inning, when a walk, double and intentional pass loaded the bases for Santo, who walked it off.</p>
<p id="YeGf0z">Wednesday night’s game started off far better than that. <span>Jose Quintana</span> walked the first hitter he faced, then allowed a hit... and then got into a really nice groove, retiring 15 of the next 16 hitters until a leadoff walk in the sixth.</p>
<p id="7S5peb">Meanwhile, the Cubs were fashioning a 3-0 lead. That began with <span>Anthony Rizzo</span> <a href="https://www.mlb.com/video/rizzos-homer-off-the-scoreboard/c-2125849183">leading off the second [VIDEO]</a>.</p>
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<p id="paT0b9">Fun fact about Rizzo’s blast:</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Anthony Rizzo's home run tied him with Andre Dawson for 13th on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cubs?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cubs</a> career HR list with 174</p>— Christopher Kamka (@ckamka) <a href="https://twitter.com/ckamka/status/1004588831608360960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2018</a>
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<p id="GVBUzz">The Cubs put two more runners on base in that inning, but Almora hit into a double play to end that scoring chance.</p>
<p id="eIEbE3">In the fourth, a pair of walks to <span>Kris Bryant</span> and Rizzo began the inning. Bryant had taken off for second on what turned out to be ball four, and then took third when he realized <a href="https://www.mlb.com/video/bryant-reaches-third-on-miscue/c-2126100883">no one was covering the base [VIDEO]</a>.</p>
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<p id="yvZZBb"><span>Willson Contreras</span> singled in Bryant, who probably would not have scored from second on the hit, and Rizzo eventually wound up on third when Schwarber grounded out. <span>Javier Baez</span> hit a sacrifice fly to make it 3-0.</p>
<p id="5LHMCA">That looked like it would hold up with Quintana dealing, especially after he struck out a pair of Phillies following that sixth-inning leadoff walk, giving him 10 on the night. But an infield hit ended Q’s night.</p>
<p id="QjJQXp">That was the “questionable managing decision” I spoke of earlier. <span>Aaron Altherr</span>, who entered the game hitting .184 with 55 strikeouts in 147 at-bats, and Q had handled him easily in his first two trips Wednesday night, and Q had thrown only 91 pitches.</p>
<p id="IdRFu4">But no, the platoon advantage overruled all that, so <span>Steve Cishek</span> was summoned. Me? I think I’d have left Quintana in the game. He was dealing, and needed just one more out to get out of the inning.</p>
<p id="fvmbmP">Altherr drove Cishek’s first pitch into the basket in center field for a three-run homer.</p>
<p id="Y6JZ5j">Now, would Quintana have retired him? We’ll never know, but I liked the odds given the previous at-bats.</p>
<p id="R5AeP4">The game remained tied until the ninth, when <span>Brandon Morrow</span> entered. He immediately gave up a single to Altherr, who is 3-for-7 in this series after going 3-for-30 in his previous 10 games. Next up was <span>Dylan Cozens</span>, who replaced <span>Nick Williams</span> in left field in the fifth inning, reportedly because <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnStolnis/status/1004537438386221056">Williams hurt his wrist</a> when running into the wall making a play earlier in the game.</p>
<p id="tA3ozT">For Cozens, this was his sixth big-league at-bat. Morrow had not allowed a home run since <a href="https://twitter.com/CarrieMuskat/status/1004557704231309312">September 8, 2016</a>.</p>
<p id="LE1I3G">Of course, you know what’s next. Cozens smashed a two-run shot that gave the Phillies a 5-3 lead. Cozens showed power in the minors (40 homers in Double-A in 2016, 27 in Triple-A last year), but for Morrow, it was his worst outing as a Cub. It got worse after the homer; he struck out the next Phillie, then hit a batter and issued a walk — the walk going to Phillies reliever <span>Seranthony Dominguez</span>, who was at the plate for the first time in his professional career. </p>
<p id="fqNeRf">That brought Joe out to lift Morrow, the first time Morrow had been taken out of a game during an inning this season. <span>Cory Mazzoni</span> retired the next two hitters without incident.</p>
<p id="siA1yO">And that led to one of the better Cubs game-winning rallies any of us has seen, during a regular-season game, anyway.</p>
<p id="8L1hR2">The win thrilled us all, and I couldn’t be happier for Heyward. We don’t have to rehash the struggles he’s had since he’s been here, but the work he’s done this season to revamp his swing appears, at last, to be paying off. Since May 5: .318/.352/.455 (21-for-66) with two doubles, two triples, Wednesday’s home run, 11 RBI and only four strikeouts. If J-Hey can get back to the level at which he hit in Atlanta, or even in his one year in St. Louis, that’s a huge boost to the Cubs offense.</p>
<p id="FL2ipI">The Cubs did pretty well against <span>Aaron Nola</span>, too; he figured to be the toughest starter they would face in this series and they touched him up for three runs and four walks. Just one other team this year has walked four times against Nola and just two others have scored at least three runs, in 13 starts. So they did what they had to against Nola, and thankfully, Heyward’s slam got the bullpen off the hook and produced an incredible ending.</p>
<p id="i2kHz1">With the <a href="https://www.brewcrewball.com/">Brewers</a> losing again Wednesday, the Cubs moved to within one game of first place, and also now have one fewer defeat (24) than the Brewers do (25). They can pick up another half game on idle Milwaukee Thursday afternoon, when they go for the series win over the Phillies at 1:20 p.m. CT. <span>Tyler Chatwood</span> will start for the Cubs and <span>Nick Pivetta</span> goes for the Phillies. TV coverage Thursday will be via NBC Sports Chicago.</p>
https://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2018/6/7/17437282/cubs-phillies-recap-jason-heyward-jose-quintana-mlb-scoresAl Yellon2018-06-06T21:50:02-05:002018-06-06T21:50:02-05:00Overflow thread 3: Cubs vs. Phillies, Wednesday 6/6, 7:05 CT
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https://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2018/6/6/17416646/overflow-thread-2-cubs-vs-phillies-wednesday-6-6-7-05-ctAl Yellon2018-06-06T20:05:02-05:002018-06-06T20:05:02-05:00Overflow thread 1: Cubs vs. Phillies, Wednesday 6/6, 7:05 CT
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<p id="egIP37">Go get ‘em, Jose.</p>
https://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2018/6/6/17416628/first-pitch-thread-cubs-vs-phillies-wednesday-6-6-7-05-ctAl Yellon2018-06-06T17:00:01-05:002018-06-06T17:00:01-05:00Chicago Cubs vs. Philadelphia Phillies preview, Wednesday 6/6, 7:05 CT
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<p>The Cubs look to even up their series with the Phillies.</p> <p id="fmL3Lr">Notes for Wednesday:</p>
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<li id="AmthGO">Tuesday’s loss was just the sixth time this season the Cubs have dropped a game by four or more runs, tied for the second-fewest such defeats in baseball. Only the <a href="https://www.overthemonster.com/">Red Sox</a> have suffered fewer losses by four or more runs this season (four).</li>
<li id="JouIOx">On the other end of the spectrum, the Cubs have won 19 games by four or more runs this season, tied for second-most in baseball with the Red Sox, trailing only the <a href="https://www.crawfishboxes.com/">Astros</a> (20).</li>
<li id="qbPUJR">Tuesday, Philadelphia’s <span>Zach Eflin</span> became the first starting pitcher to go more than seven innings against the Cubs this season. In fact, the Cubs had gone 79 straight regular-season games without the opposing starter recording an out in the eighth inning (<span>Gerrit Cole</span> of the <a href="https://www.bucsdugout.com/">Pirates</a> threw eight innings <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/PIT/PIT201709060.shtml">September 6, 2017</a> in a 1-0 Cubs win).</li>
<li id="8WGt2x">The Cubs are one of just seven teams to have allowed the opposing starter to pitch more than seven innings in just one game this season, joining the <a href="https://www.letsgotribe.com/">Indians</a>, <a href="https://www.truebluela.com/">Dodgers</a>, <a href="https://www.twinkietown.com/">Twins</a>, <a href="https://www.amazinavenue.com/">Mets</a>, <a href="https://www.thegoodphight.com/">Phillies</a> and <a href="https://www.gaslampball.com/">Padres</a>. (H/T: STATS Inc.)</li>
<li id="LuijQa">Anthony Rizzo has reached safely in his last 16 games with a plate appearance since May 18, hitting safely in 15 of those. Also, he is hitting .500 with RISP in his last 22 games (13-for-26, 19 RBI), including 2-for-2 with a go-ahead RBI Saturday. Overall, Rizzo is hitting .351 (20-for-57) in RISP situations this season.</li>
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<p id="2mwf39">Here are today’s particulars.</p>
<p id="Vergm4"><a href="https://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/">Cubs</a> lineup:</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Here is tonight's <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cubs?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cubs</a> starting lineup.<br><br>Stream on <a href="https://twitter.com/YouTubeTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@YouTubeTV</a>: <a href="https://t.co/t4XvcdoeJc">https://t.co/t4XvcdoeJc</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EverybodyIn?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#EverybodyIn</a> <a href="https://t.co/PqcDE6Geat">pic.twitter.com/PqcDE6Geat</a></p>— Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) <a href="https://twitter.com/Cubs/status/1004456151524757508?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 6, 2018</a>
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<span>Jose Quintana</span>, RHP vs. <span>Aaron Nola</span>, RHP</h2>
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<p id="xCUoG6">Jose Quintana has been alternating really good starts with clunkers for more than a month. The bad news is that if this keeps up, tonight will be a clunker.</p>
<p id="2PpnJb">But let’s be optimistic and say that Q has finally figured things out and will start to put together a run of excellent outings.</p>
<p id="j6tWO3">His start vs. the Phillies last year, <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/PHI/PHI201708250.shtml">August 25 in Philadelphia</a>, wasn’t good: six runs in five innings. But most of the current Phillies team hasn’t faced him much. The only current Phillie who has more than six career AB against him is <span>Carlos Santana</span>, and Q has handled him well: 8-for-43 (.186).</p>
<p id="6ozJbf">Let’s hope that applies to the rest of the Phillies tonight as well.</p>
<p id="aVRIu5"><span>Aaron Nola</span> has been a solid rotation starter for the Phillies for the past three seasons, but this year he’s upped his game and is having the best year of his career, a 2.18 ERA, 0.932 WHIP and 2.62 FIP and has gone at least six innings in 11 of his 12 starts.</p>
<p id="ys27Vb">His only career start vs. the Cubs was <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN201507260.shtml">July 26, 2015 at Wrigley Field</a>. That was the day after <span>Cole Hamels</span>’ no-hitter and the Cubs did touch him up for five runs, including a couple of home runs. Only four current Cubs faced him in that game: <span>Kris Bryant</span>, <span>Anthony Rizzo</span>, <span>Kyle Schwarber</span> and <span>Addison Russell</span>, so this is someone the Cubs have little familiarity with. Hopefully the scouting reports are good.</p>
<p id="Swp5FK">Today’s game is on NBC Sports Chicago Plus.</p>
<p id="0kjgKb"><a href="https://www.mlb.com/live-stream-games/2018/06/06">Here is the complete MLB.com Mediacenter for today.</a></p>
<p id="Xe5URc"><a href="http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2018_06_06_phimlb_chnmlb_1">MLB.com Gameday</a></p>
<p id="iDRiK8"><a href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/previews/2018/CHN201806060.shtml">Baseball-reference.com game preview</a></p>
<p id="AScVZw"><a href="http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/events/534453/pregame">SB Nation game preview</a></p>
<p id="c01E3n">Please visit our SB Nation <a href="https://www.thegoodphight.com/">Phillies</a> site <a href="http://www.thegoodphight.com/">The Good Phight</a>. If you do go there to interact with Phillies fans, please be respectful, abide by their individual site rules and serve as a good representation of Cub fans in general and BCB in particular.</p>
<p id="4R9cxt">The 2018 Game Thread procedure will be the same as the one used during 2017. Here's how it works.</p>
<p id="uNrOo7">You'll find the game preview posted separately on the front page, two hours before game time (90 minutes for some early day games following night games).</p>
<p id="Jy7Er2">At the same time, a StoryStream containing the preview will also post on the front page. The First Pitch Thread and all the overflow threads will be published in that stream, as well as the recap. The recap will also live on the front page as a separate post, and at the time I write the recap I will rename the stream "Cubs vs. (Team) (Day of Week) Game Threads" so you can go back and find every thread related to that particular game.</p>
<p id="F5ehVY">You will also be able to find the preview, First Pitch Thread, all the overflow threads and recap in the box marked "Chicago Cubs Game Threads" at the bottom of the front page (you can also find them in <a href="http://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/chicago-cubs-game-threads">this section link</a>). They will also appear in the game's StoryStream as noted above.</p>
<p id="pjBR1E">The First Pitch thread will post at five minutes before game time, then an overflow thread at one hour, two hours and 2:45 after the scheduled game time.</p>
<p id="p3KWTQ">Discuss amongst yourselves.</p>
https://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2018/6/6/17403290/chicago-cubs-philadelphia-phillies-preview-wednesdayAl Yellon