Arrieta (22-6, 1.77) is the Cubs biggest victor since Hall of Famer Ferguson Jenkins was 24-13 in 1971. With the entry of a second wild-card team, the top seed, with home-field advantage, must play the second seed in a one-game playoff.
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With runners on first and third and one out, Garcia said because it was a hard bunt his first instinct was to go to second for a double play. The insane thing was the Cardinals were the homer dependent, defensive challenged losers on the night and not the other way around.
After the game, it was Adam Wainwright serving as the voice of reasoning with St. Louis Today. He heard catcher Yadier Molina yelling but wasn’t sure what was said. Startled, Garcia glanced home before throwing off his heels to Brandon Moss. But Garcia hesitated and gunned the ball past first baseman Brandon Moss instead. Russell reached third with two outs, but center fielder Dexter Fowler’s towering fly ball was gloved by right fielder Randal Grichuk at the wall, ending the Cubs’ best scoring threat. Soler went 2-2 with two walks and two-run homer. Meanwhile, Hendricks was on cruise control, at least for a while.
In the third, Chicago added a run when Anthony Rizzo scored on a ground out by Miguel Montero.
Then Hendricks bunted to Garcia.
Lackey is 3-0 with an 0.93 ERA in four starts against Chicago overall.
Seeing this crop up already. The Pitching is still good, it was just a bad inning, which resulted in the Cardinals really beating themselves. The two-time 20-game victor, coming off a torn left Achilles in late April, fanned three in 1 2-3 scoreless innings, his fourth appearance since being injured and first of more than an inning.
But St. Louis’ offense managed just two hits after that, never even bringing the tying run to the plate. “I said what I felt, but at the same time I was going to take the mound and compete”. “I probably shouldn’t have thrown that ball knowing that Jackson is running”.
Jon Lester did all he could to keep the Chicago Cubs close.
“We didn’t win yesterday, but we were not overwhelmed by anything”, Maddon said.
Then, the Cubs went into nickel-and-dime mode. “I was trying to make something happen when I shouldn’t have”. It just felt like a bit of an oversight to not mention Bosio and the Cubs successes in the same area.
Both Wood and Richard give the Cubs options if Joe Maddon elects to pull Hendricks early.
While Arrieta has been pitching in the league since 2010, it wasn’t until this year that Arrieta posted more than 10 wins. Even in St. Louis is there a few angst.
As a result, it feels as if the Cubs will return to Chicago for Monday’s Game 3 leading the series 1-1. “He’s an option now for us as we move forward to start“. “I was a little surprised”.
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“But I look at it from a different perspective and when I was saying that to the Chicago Tribune, that was said as a baseball fan”. This is the area of the ballgame that has been usually held by Cards punching bag Pedro Strop. Until missing the cut at last week’s Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, Donald had made his past 12 worldwide cuts in a row. He’s yet to face the Cubs this year, though. Epstein knew he had a great amount of talent in the pipeline too: Addison Russell, Kyle Schwarber and Kris Bryant were all called up during the 2015 season. Tonight Jorge Soler reached base all four time he came to the plate. If the Cubs need multiple quality innings in the middle of the game, they have two guys who can handle a heavy workload.
