Jake

2 games above .500, didn't embarrass ourselves against the Cubbies

All it took to get him to homer was putting him into a fly ball situation

My man!!!!

Didn't know Benny could do it like that

I will say that the thing about our all-bunt team is that their success rate isn't exactly the reason I call them that. More the attempt rate

Nice job to hold it together for Davis. This guy is like 18 months removed from indie ball.

Isn't it the all-bunt team? Not the worst thing for the situation lol

Keep it to 1 and you have a reasonable target to get yourself 1 as well

More lucky results for the Cubs

I'm a little nervous about walking the bases loaded given that Davis is not a reliable strikethrower and Bregman is a pretty patient hitter

PCA went out of the baseline and they didn't call him out right away. Kind of annoying as it gave them more time to take 2B

Too busy throwing I guess. I saw the other day an ump didn't allow a challenge after a throwdown although I don't think the ump was technically in the right

Stolen base made the ump miss the strike call as well

Hope Davis does well but I'll have a hard time being mad at him if he doesn't

I like the idea of turning and burning on a fastball in, it was just a little too far in so he didn't catch enough of it

They might be able to get another inning out of Palencia with just 14 pitches. Not sure how he's normally used.

Just looking for a single here, I'm not sure that the decision of Chase vs. Colson is as obvious as Counsell had it. Chase hasn't had a good day though, really chasing a lot (pun unintended)

To me, while it's correct to give Vargas the error there, it just didn't seem like a hard ball to catch and I think it got there on time

Vargas's throw left something to be desired but throwing it into the ground on deep balls to your backhand side is very much what they teach you and has worked well for him this season. Bear in mind also that he was throwing it into a howling headwind.

That one's surprising to me, assuming it stays 7-7

Hope Davis can get hot in a hurry

Setting up the walkoff

Seranthony is going to run out of gas soon so I hope there's a contingency plan

TBF, the problem with a ball that bounces several times is not that it's harder to catch (each hop gets lower and easier to handle), it's that it's slower. I'm kinda surprised Mune missed it.

The cheese gets a little more binding, as Hawk would say