Bleed Cubbie Blue - Cubs vs. Red Sox Tuesday game threadsA Chicago Cubs Fan Community Since February 9, 2005https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/47557/cubbieblue.png2019-03-26T18:10:23-05:00http://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/rss/stream/180448722019-03-26T18:10:23-05:002019-03-26T18:10:23-05:00Cubs 16, Red Sox 7: And now, on to the 2019 regular season
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<p>The Cubs had some fun with the visitors from Boston, and now it’s time to get serious about this year.</p> <p id="iJuibx"><strong>MESA, Arizona</strong> — On a day when the bigger stories were off the field (including <a href="https://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2019/3/26/18282633/cubs-sign-kyle-hendricks-to-4-year-extension-ryan-dempster-2024">the signing of Kyle Hendricks to a multi-year extension</a>), the <a href="https://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/">Cubs</a> and <a href="https://www.overthemonster.com/">Red Sox</a> took part in a silly game in which minor leaguers played most of the time and <a href="http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/news/boxscore.jsp?gid=2019_03_26_bosmlb_chnmlb_1">the Cubs won 16-7</a>, in the final game of spring training in Arizona in 2019.</p>
<p id="TElA6c">And what I thought of most, considering these two teams, was that I am now hoping that they will be the teams involved in the <em>last</em> game of 2019, sometime around the end of October.</p>
<p id="qVQg5g">We can dream, right?</p>
<p id="hbdVyg">Hendricks was supposed to start this game, but:</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Hendricks won’t pitch today, spent 3 hours in an MRI tube</p>— Mark Gonzales (@MDGonzales) <a href="https://twitter.com/MDGonzales/status/1110602600406081536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2019</a>
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<p id="0RbNOJ">Uh... okay, I guess, there doesn’t appear to be anything wrong, and we should certainly hope not after that contract extension.</p>
<p id="4lKAxn">So instead the three relievers who were supposed to come after Hendricks — <span>Carl Edwards Jr.</span>, <span>Brandon Kintzler</span> and <span>Tim Collins</span> — threw the first three innings. Nice outings for CJ and Kintzler; Collins allowed a solo homer to Red Sox catcher <span>Blake Swihart</span>.</p>
<p id="3fkyvP">Meanwhile, Cubs hitters were pounding the ball all over the yard, mainly off big-league Red Sox relievers, as well as <span>David Price</span>... and man, I don’t think I ever noticed before how <em>slow </em>Price works. If MLB ever does go to a pitch clock, Price is going to be in violation on every single pitch. Price left after allowing five runs. One of those was <span>Kyle Schwarber</span>’s <a href="https://cuts.diamond.mlb.com/FORGE/2019/2019-03/26/15eff40a-067d2bb6-0855bde4-csvm-diamondx64-asset_1280x720_59_4000K.mp4">first home run of the spring [VIDEO]</a>.</p>
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<p id="LoNRWk">That was nice to see — opposite field off a lefthander, and a good lefthander at that. Eventually the Cubs put this game away off several Red Sox relievers in the fifth inning, scoring eight runs. <a href="https://cuts.diamond.mlb.com/FORGE/2019/2019-03/26/b1f1e4aa-de4402cc-b24060a6-csvm-diamondx64-asset_1280x720_59_4000K.mp4">Here are all those runs! [VIDEO]</a></p>
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<p id="o0Gj4a">Cubs relievers from the Triple-A side, who included <span>George Kontos</span>, <span>Rowan Wick</span>, <span>James Norwood</span>, <span>Matt Carasiti</span> and <span>Ian Clarkin</span>, all did all right — except Clarkin, who faced five hitters and retired none of them. The last of those five, a Red Sox prospect named <span>Sam Travis</span> (a Chicago-area native who was a teammate of Schwarber’s at Indiana), smashed a grand slam, making the score appear closer than this game really was.</p>
<p id="e2ZPZh">It got so silly that <span>Wynton Bernard</span>, a 28-year-old organizational guy who played last year at Iowa and Tennessee, went 3-for-4 with two runs scored, a home run and three RBI, even though he didn’t start the game.</p>
<p id="kZsQ0t">The regulars all departed by the middle innings so the Cubs’ charter flight to Dallas could leave on time in the late afternoon. The Cubs will spend their off day Wednesday in the Metroplex before Thursday’s opener.</p>
<p id="IdkVEe"><strong>Attendance watch:</strong> 15,913, another sellout, and again a significant minority of Red Sox fans, whose loudest cheer was for <span>Dustin Pedroia</span>, who played the first six innings. That makes the season total for 18 dates at Sloan Park 250,893, which is an all-time record for the ballpark and for a spring training season. The average for the 18 dates was 13,939.</p>
<p id="kwd7Gk">And now... we have a baseball season ahead, 162 games worth, “filling the afternoons and evenings,” as former Commissioner Bart Giamatti once wrote. The Cubs look good to me, ready to go and ready to make up for the awful way 2018 ended.</p>
<p id="Sj4oPv">Thursday in Arlington, Texas, it begins. <span>Jon Lester</span> will go for the Cubs and <span>Mike Minor</span> will start for the <a href="https://www.lonestarball.com/">Rangers</a>. Game time Thursday is 3:05 p.m. CT. TV coverage will be via WGN.</p>
<p id="5d68AX">#LetsGo #EverybodyIn</p>
https://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2019/3/26/18283097/cubs-red-sox-recap-kyle-hendricks-kyle-schwarber-mlb-scoresAl Yellon2019-03-26T15:30:00-05:002019-03-26T15:30:00-05:00Overflow thread: Cubs vs. Red Sox, Tuesday 3/26, 2:05 CT
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https://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2019/3/26/18280725/overflow-thread-cubs-vs-red-sox-tuesday-3-26-2-05-ctAl Yellon2019-03-26T14:00:00-05:002019-03-26T14:00:00-05:00First pitch thread: Cubs vs. Red Sox, Tuesday 3/26, 2:05 CT
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<p id="zSDWGZ">Go get ‘em, Kyle.</p>
https://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2019/3/26/18280719/first-pitch-thread-cubs-vs-red-sox-tuesday-3-26-2-05-ctAl Yellon2019-03-26T12:00:00-05:002019-03-26T12:00:00-05:00Cubs vs. Red Sox at Mesa preview, Tuesday 3/26, 2:05 CT
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<p>It all starts for real on Thursday.</p> <p id="RAgL9g"><strong>MESA, Arizona</strong> — This is the 34th and final game the <a href="https://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/">Cubs</a> will play this year that counts for nothing.</p>
<p id="etQgff">There haven’t been too many surprises this spring, other than <span>Ian Happ</span> being sent to Triple-A. As a result of <span>Happ</span>’s demotion, <span>Mark Zagunis</span> will likely make his first MLB Opening Day roster.</p>
<p id="jPLnx4">Other than that, the guys you would have expected to be in the Cubs lineup and rotation will be those players when the season opens Thursday in Arlington, Texas. </p>
<p id="5trqoM">In the meantime, enjoy this one final practice game, which will likely have regular players depart early to catch their flight to the Dallas area.</p>
<p id="8WPNEi">Here are today’s particulars. No lineups were available at posting time, so check the BCB Twitter feed for today's lineups.</p>
<p id="LkLwuV"><span>Kyle Hendricks</span> will start for the Cubs. Cubs relievers today: <span>Tim Collins</span>, <span>Carl Edwards Jr.</span> and <span>Brandon Kintzler</span>. </p>
<p id="liqI72"><span>David Price</span> will go for the <a href="https://www.overthemonster.com/">Red Sox</a>.</p>
<p id="OC139U">Today’s game is an audio webcast via <a href="http://cubs.com">cubs.com</a>. It’s being televised by the Red Sox TV channel NESN, available via MLB.tv.</p>
<p id="MNoeEF"><a href="http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2019_03_26_bosmlb_chnmlb_1">MLB.com Gameday</a></p>
<p id="0b0ENG"><em>Please note that during spring training, Gameday doesn’t usually go pitch-by-pitch as it does during the regular season — usually, it will update after each at-bat.</em></p>
<p id="duh5N2"><a href="https://www.mlb.com/live-stream-games/2019/03/26">Here is the complete MLB.com Mediacenter for today.</a></p>
<p id="77FG6H">Please visit our SB Nation <a href="https://www.overthemonster.com/">Red Sox</a> site <a href="http://www.overthemonster.com/">Over The Monster</a>. If you do go there to interact with Red Sox 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="fnbMtI">For spring-training games, we’ll have a first-pitch thread at five minutes to game time and one overflow thread, 90 minutes after game time (because I know how you all like overflow threads!). For today, that will be 2 p.m. CT and 3:30 p.m. CT.</p>
<p id="eDrZXV">These threads will <em>not</em> post individually onto the front page; instead, you can find links to them in the box marked <a href="http://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/chicago-cubs-game-threads">”Chicago Cubs Game Threads”</a> at the <em>bottom</em> of the front page. There will also be a StoryStream on the front page with all the game thread links, as well as the recap after the game is over. The pitcher boxes and regular-season stats will return on Opening Day.</p>
<p id="mI6dIM">Discuss amongst yourselves.</p>
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