Bleed Cubbie Blue - Cubs vs. Cardinals Friday game threadsA Chicago Cubs Fan Community Since February 9, 2005https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/47557/cubbieblue.png2019-06-07T17:10:37-05:00http://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/rss/stream/184179102019-06-07T17:10:37-05:002019-06-07T17:10:37-05:00Cubs 3, Cardinals 1: Cole Hamels dominates St. Louis, again
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<p>The Cubs lefthander had his second straight outstanding outing against the Cardinals.</p> <p id="47JUEc">On the day when the <a href="https://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/">Cubs</a> made the signing of <span>Craig Kimbrel</span> official, <span>Cole Hamels</span> served notice that the team’s starting rotation could be just as dominant as we all hope Kimbrel is.</p>
<p id="OHRNZc">Hamels threw for the second straight start against the <a href="https://www.vivaelbirdos.com/">Cardinals</a>, and for the second straight start they could not solve him. Friday on a gorgeous early summer afternoon at Wrigley Field, Hamels threw eight shutout innings, allowing three hits and a walk with 10 strikeouts, and the Cubs opened the weekend series with <a href="http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/news/boxscore.jsp?gid=2019_06_07_slnmlb_chnmlb_1">a 3-1 win over their arch-rivals</a>.</p>
<p id="FrxUeQ">Hamels retired the side in order in the first inning and then the Cubs got to work. <span>Anthony Rizzo</span>, who thrives in the leadoff spot, drew a walk and then, with the Cardinals not paying attention, stole second base as <span>Carlos Gonzalez</span> struck out.</p>
<p id="jMW6N8">Three pitches later, <span>Javier Baez</span> <a href="https://cuts.diamond.mlb.com/FORGE/2019/2019-06/07/6a71e254-03c45314-290b2f46-csvm-diamondx64-asset_1280x720_59_4000K.mp4">made that stolen base moot [VIDEO]</a>.</p>
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<p id="n1K6NX">Quite the launch angle into a wind blowing off Lake Michigan on that one:</p>
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<p id="RiFKbs">Turns out that was all the runs the Cubs would need. Hamels gave up a two-out double in the second, then retired five in a row before a walk in the fourth, then five more in a row before a sixth-inning single, then three more before a two-out single in the seventh. </p>
<p id="wXUJPc">Meanwhile, the Cubs were extending the lead. Gonzalez walked to lead off the fourth, but was thrown out trying to steal as Baez struck out. But then the Cubs put together a two-out, nobody-on rally, something they’ve done a lot of in this homestand. <span>Jason Heyward</span> doubled down the right-field line, and <span>Victor Caratini</span> <a href="https://cuts.diamond.mlb.com/FORGE/2019/2019-06/07/2d6ba3ba-76fc6255-54c2a265-csvm-diamondx64-asset_1280x720_59_4000K.mp4">brought him in [VIDEO]</a>.</p>
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<p id="yP4D7M">Caratini had a good day at the plate, with two hits and a walk, and obviously called a fine game for Hamels, who wound up his day by striking out the side in the eighth inning.</p>
<p id="WYDAzU">Rewinding just a bit, there was a curious play that ended the Cubs’ fifth inning. <span>Anthony Rizzo</span> singled and then <span>Kris Bryant</span>... <a href="https://cuts.diamond.mlb.com/FORGE/2019/2019-06/07/803b1508-9fef2d00-aa7c4530-csvm-diamondx64-asset_1280x720_59_4000K.mp4">well, watch [VIDEO]</a>.</p>
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<p id="yxUW95">The ball definitely hit the Cubs security person sitting next to the ball girl down the left-field line. What you cannot see in this video — and at this writing the Cubs broadcast is archived and I can’t get you a screenshot from there — is third-base umpire Brian Gorman giving the “safe” sign, indicating that the ball was in play. However, <span>Marcell Ozuna</span> saw the ball hit the security person, and put his hands up thinking the play would be ruled dead. Rizzo, running, saw that but then must have seen the “in play” sign from the umpire, and continued running, but tentatively. He was thrown out easily.</p>
<p id="iGVWPC">Joe Maddon went out to confer with the umpires, but that play must not be reviewable, or they would certainly have reviewed it.</p>
<p id="QPahGO">As I said, since the Cubs won the game anyway, this is more a curiosity than anything important, but I’d still love to hear the umpires’ reasoning.</p>
<p id="u8EZmS">The Cubs loaded the bases in the seventh off Cardinals reliever <span>Ryan Helsley</span>, but Bryant struck out to end the rally.</p>
<p id="ArvhSM">About the only thing I’d open the complaint department door for after this one was <span>Pedro Strop</span>’s outing in the ninth. He clearly didn’t have fastball command and it showed; <span>Paul DeJong</span> homered off him to break up the shutout, but he recovered to strike out <span>Paul Goldschmidt</span> and got Ozuna to fly to center to end it.</p>
<p id="gW9uOF">Personally, I thought Hamels could have at least started the ninth at 99 pitches (74 strikes), unless he’d told Maddon that he was gassed. It was his best outing of the season, and now in two starts vs. the Cardinals this year he’s thrown 15⅓ innings, allowed five hits and one unearned run, walked three and struck out 14. And as for Cubs starting pitching in general recently:</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cubs?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cubs</a> starting pitching last 9 games:<br>1.96 ERA, 59.2 IP, 35 Hits, 13 Walks, 58 Strikeouts, 0.804 WHIP<br>3 or fewer runs allowed in all 9 game.</p>— Christopher Kamka (@ckamka) <a href="https://twitter.com/ckamka/status/1137100435947438082?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2019</a>
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<p id="xUCkQG">The Cubs are just 5-4 in those nine games due primarily to a lack of offense. They’ve scored 35 runs in the last nine games and allowed 30. Good pitching, to be sure, but the offense needs to pick it up. Friday, it was just enough, with Hamels being so outstanding. But Strop’s somewhat shaky save (his sixth) had me wondering just how quickly Kimbrel could be ready.</p>
<p id="otWdzZ">As noted, it was a perfect weather day at Wrigley, with a light wind off the lake, unlimited sunshine and a temperature around 70. The announced crowd of 40,671 — and there were very few empty seats — was the fourth-largest of the year and Friday’s 2:39 game time was the sixth-fastest Wrigley game this year.</p>
<p id="RpInUV">And so apart from Pedro’s little glitch, the complaint department is closed.</p>
<p id="ja89GL">The Cubs are half a game ahead of the <a href="https://www.brewcrewball.com/">Brewers</a>, pending Milwaukee’s home game tonight against the <a href="https://www.bucsdugout.com/">Pirates</a>, and lead the Cardinals by 3½.</p>
<p id="QUh1ve">Saturday, the Cubs and Cardinals will play again, this time on Fox-TV’s “Baseball Night in America” at 6:15 p.m. CT. <a href="http://506sports.com/mlb.php">Here’s coverage info for Saturday.</a> <span>Jon Lester</span> will start for the Cubs Saturday against <span>Jack Flaherty</span> for St. Louis.</p>
https://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2019/6/7/18657186/cubs-cardinals-recap-cole-hamels-javier-baez-mlb-scoresAl Yellon2019-06-07T15:20:00-05:002019-06-07T15:20:00-05:00Overflow thread 2: Cubs vs. Cardinals, Friday 6/7, 1:20 CT
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<p id="oSC5Zd">Go get ‘em, Cole.</p>
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<p>Another weekend date with the Cubs’ arch-rivals.</p> <p id="U2LSvl">Notes for Friday:</p>
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<span>Javier Baez</span> has three multi-hit games in his last four games and leads the Cubs with 25 multi-hit games.</li>
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<span>Kris Bryant</span> has scored a run in four straight games and leads the team with 47 runs scored on the season. The 47 runs ties him for fourth in the National League with <span>Christian Yelich</span>.</li>
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<span>Carl Edwards Jr.</span>, who threw two-thirds of an inning Thursday with a strikeout, has a 2.13 ERA (three earned runs in 12⅔ innings) in 14 games since being recalled from Triple-A Iowa May 6. He has just one walk and 14 strikeouts in that span.</li>
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<span>Kyle Schwarber</span> went 1-for-4 with his first 2019 stolen base Thursday, and has hit safely in five straight games (7-for-19, .368/.429/.579, one double, one home run).</li>
<li id="QxW6v7">The Cubs rank third in the N.L. in runs per game (5.21) and are second in OPS (.795). They have 254 walks (4.16) per game, which is a pace for 675. That would break the franchise record of 656, set in 2016.</li>
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<p id="12iHnm">Here are today’s particulars.</p>
<p id="3IvQgQ"><a href="https://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/">Cubs</a> lineup:</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Here is today's <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cubs?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cubs</a> starting lineup. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EverybodyIn?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#EverybodyIn</a><br><br>Stream on <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCSChicago?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NBCSChicago</a>: <a href="https://t.co/rGCuW1XI7C">https://t.co/rGCuW1XI7C</a> <a href="https://t.co/luHaOxkTcq">pic.twitter.com/luHaOxkTcq</a></p>— Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) <a href="https://twitter.com/Cubs/status/1137001960463355904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2019</a>
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<p id="ao1n2Y"><a href="https://www.vivaelbirdos.com/">Cardinals</a> lineup:</p>
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<span>Cole Hamels</span>, LHP vs. <span>Miles Mikolas</span>, RHP</h2>
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<p id="6Y8mwd">Cole Hamels had one of the best starts of his Cubs career <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SLN/SLN201906020.shtml">last Sunday in St. Louis</a>: Seven innings, two hits, two walks, one run.</p>
<p id="4KMPsV">Another one just like that, please.</p>
<p id="V5Tie8">Miles Mikolas threw seven strong innings against the Cubs <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SLN/SLN201905310.shtml">last Friday in St. Louis</a>. He allowed six hits and one run. Mikolas hasn’t had quite the year in 2019 that he had in 2018, but he always seems to throw well against the Cubs.</p>
<p id="agJSER">Let’s change that this afternoon. FWIW, Mikolas has been much worse on the road this year (five starts, 7.66 ERA, 1.791 WHIP, seven HR in 22⅓ innings) than at home (2.87 ERA, 0.872 WHIP, five HR in 47 innings). So maybe that’ll work in the Cubs’ favor.</p>
<p id="V6LI8J">Today’s game is on NBC Sports Chicago. It’s also on MLB Network (outside the Cubs and Cardinals market territories). This game is also being carried by streaming service ESPN+ — <a href="http://espn.zlbu.net/c/482924/578578/9070?sharedid=BleedCubbieBlue">sign up for ESPN+ here</a>. ESPN+ games are blacked out in the participating teams’ home markets. If you have “cut the cord,” NBC Sports Chicago games can be streamed in the Cubs’ market territory via Fubo. <a href="https://fave.co/2Fxe8eQ" rel="sponsored nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Sign up for Fubo here</a>.</p>
<p id="cxuSIp"><a href="https://www.mlb.com/live-stream-games/2019/06/07">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=2019_06_07_slnmlb_chnmlb_1">MLB.com Gameday</a></p>
<p id="iDRiK8"><a href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/previews/2019/CHN201906070.shtml">Baseball-reference.com game preview</a></p>
<p id="AScVZw"><span>SB Nation game preview</span></p>
<p id="c01E3n">Please visit our SB Nation <a href="https://www.vivaelbirdos.com/">Cardinals</a> site <a href="http://www.vivaelbirdos.com/">Viva El Birdos</a>. If you do go there to interact with Cardinals 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 2019 Game Thread procedure will be the same as the one used in previous years. 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="cWIBoH">Discuss amongst yourselves.</p>
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