fathom

Abreu is just on fire. Come on Eloy

86 mph meatball, pop up

Yep best given the injury situation and how they’ve looked the last week

Amazing how bad the offenses in the NL Central were

Looks better than Leury and EE

Guess who has to leave at 3:45 for travel baseball....yuck

Optimal lineup, let’s go!

They’re waiting to see how Eloy looks

Sure cubs don’t want to chance losing Yu to any type of rain delay

Yep they’re saying it’s rain.

One of the reasons I wanted Foster starting this game. Dunning is far and away the worst guy we have against lefties that is likely to pitch today.

No imagination, no shock

I think pitchers also throw so hard now and framing is so extreme it’s just an impossible job

Not ideal when you can put Foster and his lefty dominance in same spot

Problem is Dunning isn’t good against lefties. Rather see Foster get the start.

One could argue that there are 6 better options that could pitch you would rather see than Dunning though. To me, that’s pitching him just because he’s supposed to be a starter.

I do wonder if Vaughn is better in LF than Eloy is?

That goal is to do it so you get the platoon advantage later in the game. I don’t trust Ricky and Coop to plan that out.

That’s .1 too high

That’s what a team like Tampa would do. I hate the idea of just letting Dunning start and having a quick leash.

Losing Eloy is a massive loss. There’s no power outside the first five right now.

Go back to the A’s board

Loved their focus the last two innings. No one else I would rather have had up there than Abreu.

Ruiz for one, Gio G for two, D. Anderson for three....that’s 6 innings filled

2-0 pitch way off the plate called on Grandal that turned an inning around also