The Cubs Can't Stop Hitting Walk Off Home Runs
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Jason Heyward oppo walk off bomb for the Cubs – who would have EVER thought? Not me and that’s not the point. A win is a win is a Win around here and with that the Cubs are back to first place on their own. 16-4 over their last 20 without any end in sight.
Also, can we give Barstool lifer Dante some credit? He DJ’s a lot of Cubs home games and loves playing Starlin Castro’s walk up song in emergency purposes. This time it resulted in a direct game winning home run so someone get the Don a beef please.
Now for the realistic stuff.
I hate that this needed more than 8.5 innings to complete because The Marlins suck. The Cubs are making this series a lot more complicated than it needs to be.
Then again, the Marlins are still a MLB team despite Jeter’s best efforts so I suppose they deserve some respect.
Fortunately and again, Jason Heyward:
Best part is I can get some decent sleep without stressing about going 1-3 against baseball’s worst team. Goddamn would that be embarrassing.
What else.
Hendricks looked awesome. Again. Shocker.
Unfortunately though that means not a lot of highlights as evidenced by this pitching line
Funny thing is when Hendricks dominates, it’s almost like the game is in fast forward. Like you blink twice and it’s the 6th inning and the other team has 1 hit and 2 strikeouts. For all the Professor mubo jumbo talk I think we’re shortchanging the nickname. Kyle Hendricks pitches like an angry dad driving to the Wisconsin Dells for a long weekend with 4 kids he hates. Just weaving in and out of traffic like a total maniac.
That’s Kyle Hendricks on the mound and he would like you to get the fuck out of his way.
In 3 of his last 4 starts, Hendricks has gone at least 7 innings allowing on average 4 hits and zero runs while throwing 90 pitches. I’m not exaggerating when I say that’s about as good as it can get for a starting pitcher because the game is moving so fast, it helps your lineup and fucks with the opposing pitchers that much more. They don’t have time to think or get a break with the pitching coach. They’re out laboring against a Cubs lineup that’s leading the NL in OBP, SLG%, OPS+ and 2nd in runs. Then they’re back in the dugout for approximately 3 minutes while Kyle Hendricks knifes his way through another preposterously embarrassing 1-2-3 inning with not one batted ball making it past the infield grass.
How’s he do it?
Here’s one of the very few MLB sanctioned highlights from tonight’s game.
Fortunately that’s all you need to see because that’s basically all Hendricks does. Changeup/sinker, rinse and repeat on repeat.
What else.
How about this play from Rizzo in the 9th?
That’s an example of both very good and very bad baseball in the exact same play. All you youngsters at home – remember, don’t make stupid fucking mistakes like that guy
What else.
Addison Russell is back and I wanted to go the whole blog without mentioning him as a way to say Fuck You because I’m in the court of public opinion that the Cubs can help the situation without employing Addison Russell in a near identical capacity to last year’s 2nd half and get away with it. But I don’t know anything because I’m just a blogger who yells at his phone and makes infographics. I obviously don’t know shit.
What else.
4 more games before the next off day – 1 tomorrow at 1:20 against the Marlins and then 3 straight at home against Milwaukee.
Thank God.
Last weekend was our first taste of weekend division baseball and it was a blast.
Don’t pitch to Christian Yelich. End report.