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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Jose Cuas
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Julian Merryweather
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
* Justin Steele
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

INFIELDERS: 7
* Michael Busch 
Garrett Cooper
Nico Hoerner
Nick Madrigal
* Miles Mastrobuoni
Christopher Morel
Dansby Swanson

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Cody Bellinger 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 12 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Ben Brown, P 
Alexander Canario, OF 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Keegan Thompson, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 
Hayden Wesneski, P 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Patrick Wisdom, INF 

15-DAY IL: 1 
Jameson Taillon, P 

60-DAY IL: 1 
Caleb Kilian, P 

 



 

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Game 125 Thread / Reds @ Cubs (1 of 3)

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SP Johnny Cueto
SP Rich Harden
8-11, 4.90, 136 K, 53 BB, 145 IP
(NL) 2-1, 1.80, 49 K, 14 BB, 35 IP
LF
*Chris Dickerson LF
Alfonso Soriano
SS Jeff Keppinger
SS Ryan Theriot
RF
*Jay Bruce 1B
Derrek Lee
2B Brandon Phillips 3B
Aramis Ramirez
1B *Joey Votto CF
*Jim Edmonds
3B Edwin Encarnacion C Geovany Soto
CF *Corey Patterson RF *Kosuke Fukudome
C *Paul Bako 2B Mark DeRosa 
P Johnny Cueto P *Rich Harden

 That sure seemed like the longest one day break from baseball for some reason. Back to the Friendly Confines, where the Cubs have already surpassed their 44-win total from last year with a 45-17 record. The Reds limp into town, depleted and desperate enough to start Corey Patterson. And in honor of Dusty's return, let's discuss the Cubs leading the majors in walks with 501 and on pace for 655 which would break the club mark of 650 set in 1970. Of course, those walks don't mean much if you're not driving them in. The Cubs compliment those walks with an NL leading .284 batting average and .834 OPS with runners in scoring position. That's base-clogging done right.

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A good night -- Harden brilliant again, Marmol still groovin', Fukky gets a big (although kinda cheap) hit, and the Brewers (Sheets) and Cards both lose! FWIW -- Tyler Colvin hit his league-leading 10th triple tonight.

Random observations: Marmol hasn't given up a run in 38 days. How demoralizing is it to be a Brewer these days? After the traumatizing 4 game sweep by the Cubs, the Brewers put together a nice 12-6 run -- and lost a game in the standings over that span. Even worse for them, If the Cubs play just about .500 baseball (19-18) from this point on, the Brewers would have to go 25-10 to win the division. Harden's line with the Cubs: 42 IP, 14 BB, 59 K, 7ER. The Cubs are on pace to win 100 games. 23-14 gets them there. Don't tell anyone, but Theriot is 5th in the NL with a .316 BA. Soriano has 61 RBI's in 76 games -- that's a pace of 130 RBI's in a 162 game season. So much for not getting enough RBI opportunities at the top of the order. Wood has 25 appearances since Memorial Day and has only given up runs in three of those games. Good times.

who would have thunk that on August 20th... the two teams with the best records in baseball @ 77-48 would be the Tampa Rays and us. Hope I can say something similar on Oct 1st.

...also the play that Soto scored from 3rd on the bunt by Harden is my nominee for most intelligent play of the year. I can't believe that Encarnacion couldn't hear those lumbering footsteps behind him.

Traveling in China for work so no replay, BBTN, or streaming mediacenter...can someone describe the Soto play? Oh, and the Cardinals lost to the Pirates. Heh. That's gotta hurt.

great cubs win took advantage of what was given but corey patterson should have caught that ball. oh well i think the cubs should be able to set there playoff rotation however they want. do we think zambrano is still gonna pitch game one. steve stone thinks if we play arizona we should pitch dempster,zambrano,harden what do we think?

great cubs win took advantage of what was given but corey patterson should have caught that ball. oh well i think the cubs should be able to set there playoff rotation however they want. do we think zambrano is still gonna pitch game one. steve stone thinks if we play arizona we should pitch dempster,zambrano,harden what do we think?

Memories.... It seems like only yesterday we were agonizing like this:
Safety squeeze bunt play lifts Chicago past Cueto, Cincinnati By Hal McCoy Staff Writer Wednesday, August 20, 2008 CHICAGO — When spring training begins next February, manager Dusty Baker needs to start from scratch, as in holding up a round white thing and saying, "This is a baseball." Among 16 National League teams, the Cincinnati Reds are 14th in hitting, 14th in defense and 13th in pitching. There are no tangible statistics for measuring fundamentals, but the naked eye says the Reds are 16th. Dead last, which is why they are dead last in the National League Central standings.
More about tonight's game from an OHIO perspective here (including Dusty claiming he told his infield to watch for the safety squeeze and KPatt blaming Wrigley Field itself for his muffed catch) http://www.daytondailynews.com/s/content/oh/story/sports/pro/reds/2008/…

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In reply to by 10man

Love Dusty's defense: "I yelled 'watch the safety squeeze' to the infield". If that's the case, why wasn't the shortstop covering third on the obvious bunt situation, so as to keep Soto close to the bag? Doesn't the manager set the defense? I think Dusty meant: "The pitcher might bunt, and, if it's a good bunt, the guy on third might ty to score when we throw to first. A good return throw to the plate will get the runner. Don't make a crappy throw. So, head's up!" Clap hands twice. Didn't see Dusty's post-game -- did he bring Darren?

i cannot blame encarnacion for that play....what else is he going to do? not make the throw to first? to get to soriano with the bases loaded? that seems like a pretty bad option. he basically did the right thing, you can't look the runner back to third bc he knows there's no one behind him....once that bunt is down the only thing you can do is take the easy out at first and then try to turn two.

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In reply to by Green Lantern

as Chad noted, it's the catcher's call there, but if Encarnacion at least gives Soto a look back that's probably enough to give him a pause and keep him from scoring. The play would have been damn close if Votto didn't make such a bad throw as well. I do wonder if Soto or the Cubs noticed on the first pitch to Harden that the shortstop was covering second on that play and Soto could go up the line as far as the third basemen went.

Great baserunning to make up for the piss-poor DeRosa play and Soriano pickoff from two innings earlier...

At the game last night. Weather was almost California-like (and particularly nice for Chicago in August). Stadium was packed (announced attendance in excess of 41,000) and the crowd was into it. All three pitchers for the Cubs looked dominant. Cueto certainly has a live arm, and he was sort of "effectively wild". He had two HBP and came really close to hitting someone at least two other times. When he got ahead, he threw a few real nice changeups. Good weather, a great crowd and a Cubs win. A great night at the ballpark and, for me, a great example of why I like going to Wrigley so much.

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  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    I think if you had ranked players by how much the team could ill afford to have them miss significant time, Steele would be right at the top of the list.

  • crunch (view)

    steele MRI on friday.  counsell expects an IL stint.

    no current plans for his rotation replacement.

  • hellfrozeover (view)

    I would say also in the bright side column is Busch looked pretty good overall at the plate. Alzolay…man, that hurts but most of the time he’s not giving up a homer to that guy. To me the worst was almonte hanging that pitch to Garcia. He hung another one to the next hitter too and got away with it on an 0-1. 

  • crunch (view)

    amaya blocked like 6-8 of smyly's pitches in the dirt very cleanly...not even an exaggeration, smyly threw a ton of pitches bouncing in tonight.

    neris looking like his old self was a relief (no pun), too.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    In looking for bright spots the defense was outstanding tonight. The “stars” are going to need to shine quite a bit brighter than they did tonight offensively though for this to be a successful season.

  • Eric S (view)

    Good baseball game. Hopefully Steele is pitching again in April (but I’m not counting on it). 

  • crunch (view)

    boo.

  • crunch (view)

    smyly to face the 2/3/4 hitters with a man on 2nd in extras.

    this doesn't seem like a 8 million dollar managerial decision.

  • crunch (view)

    i 100% agree with you, but i dunno how jed wants to run things.  the default is delay.  i would choose brown.

    like hellfrozeover says, could be smyly since he's technically fresh and stretched.

    anyway, on a pure talent basis....brown is the best option.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Use pitchers when you believe they're good. Don't plan their clock.

    I'm sorry. I'm simply anti-clock/contract management. Play guys when they show real MLB potential talent.

    If Brown hadn't been hurt with the Lat Strain he would've gotten the call, and not Wick.

    Give him a chance. 

    But Wesneski probably gets it