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Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
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Colten Brewer
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Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
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Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
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* Jordan Wicks

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Yan Gomes

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Christopher Morel
Dansby Swanson
Patrick Wisdom

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Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

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Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
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Luis Vazquez, INF 
Hayden Wesneski, P 

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Seiya Suzuki, OF

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Julian Merryweather, P
 




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Dodgers @ Cubs: Kershaw vs. Wada (Game 68 Thread)

Submitted by CTSteve on

LAD (37-31): LHP Clayton Kershaw (5-4, 3.29)
CHC (37-30): LHP Tsuyoshi Wada (1-1, 3.68)
First pitch: 7.05pmCT

Puig rf

Pederson* cf

Turner 3b

Gonzalez* 1b

Kendrick 2b

Van Slyke lf

Hernandez ss

Ellis c

Kershaw* p

 

Fowler# cf

Rizzo* 1b

Bryant 3b

Castro ss

Denorfia rf

Szczur lf

Ross c

Wada* p

Russell 2b


Wada kept Cleveland off the board for 7 innings and got the win on the road his last time out. Maddon convinced him to be more aggressive on the mound and in the post-game interview, in which he called himself a “badass” without knowing what it meant.

This will be a good test to see if he’s bought a dictionary since then. The Dodgers are 4th in the League in runs scored and lead it in HRs, OBP, and OPS. Wada pitched twice against LA last year, giving up 3 ER and striking out 11 over 10.2 but didn’t factor in either decision. The Dodgers are 5-18 against him.

Kershaw--nice to see, nicer to miss--lost his last time out, giving up 3 ER over 6 innings against Texas. He pitched at Wrigley in September of last year, when he went 5 innings and gave up 3 ER and got the win in a “game” that ended 14-5. Fowler is 16-38 (.421) against him. Denorfia is 9-33 (.273) with 3 HR.

For the rest of the series, we’ll also see RHP Greinke (5-2, 1.81) vs. RHP Hammel (5-2, 2.89), RHP Bolsinger (4-2, 2.87) vs. RHP Hendricks (2-3, 4.28), and (probably) RHP Frias (4-5, 4.68) vs. LHP Lester (4-5, 3.80).

The Cubs went 3-2 on the road trip and are back to their high-water mark of 7 over .500 for the season. They are 18-13 at home and 19-17 on the road.

Rizzo is back on track after his 0-20, but now Bryant has gone 5 for his last 32 (.156). He has hit better (.326) at home than he does on the road (.242), so maybe this set will fix him before we head to St. Louis.

Schwarber ended his debut going 8-22 (.364/.391/.591), with 1 HR, 6 RBI, and 6 R. He looked comfortable at the plate--2 of hits were off of leftys--with a couple of exceptions when he got a little anxious. We would next need a DH for the Aug. 14-16 games on the Southside.

Szczur takes Schwarber’s place on the roster--and starts. Ross catches Wada again, as he did against CLE. We still have 13 pitchers on the 25-man. Soler took BP over the weekend and could be headed for a rehab assignment soon.

Go Cubs!

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Comments

Submitted by Newport on Mon, 06/22/2015 - 06:27 pm

Hey WGN, it's fucking raining, it's been raining for a month. Get back to the fucking game. Assholes.

Submitted by Cubster on Mon, 06/22/2015 - 06:45 pm

WGN is putting the game without audio in a little square with the bigger square showing breaking weather. Sucks. On the other hand, local CBS, NBC and ABC channels are all over the weather too. Are the Cubs on the weather channel?

Submitted by billybucks on Tue, 06/23/2015 - 06:48 pm

I assume they will give Schwarber some reps in LF at Iowa. If he continues to rake and is a Sept. call-up and/or MLB ready next year -- doesn't make sense for him to be a 3rd catcher behind Montero and Ross.

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