Tigers 9, Cubs 8: Opposite day
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This recap should have been headlined “The Matt Duffy game” and sung the praises of the guy Jed Hoyer signed for just $1 million. Duffy went 3-for-5, smacked a three-run homer and matched a career high with five RBI, and it all went for nothing when the Cubs lost to the Tigers 9-8 in 10 innings.
I’ll just get this out of the way right now, too we gotta kill that placed runner rule with fire. If you have to have it, at least play through the 12th inning without it, then use it if the game goes to the 13th inning. Because at least in the case of this game, this rule didn’t really “shorten” a contest that went four hours, six minutes and featured Cubs pitchers throwing 193 pitches before the game even got to extras and no Cubs pitcher threw more than 42 of those pitches. Just as Friday’s game was efficiently pitched by Cubs hurlers (107 total pitches), this one was a total slog, the tot
Is 9:30 am too early to be thinking about the leftover bbq I get to have for lunch? How about 6:30 am, when I woke up? Because I was thinking about it then, and I’m thinking about it now. It’s gonna be an early lunch day.
• Craig Kimbrel looked as good last night as he’s looked at any time with the Cubs, so he certainly wasn’t any worse for the wear with having all that time off recently:
Craig Kimbrel, K ing the Side with pic.twitter.com/PNjl4U5feW
• His curveball was ultra-sharp, too, showing the vertical drop you want to see when he’s at his best. The signature low arm angle and good spin/extension makes 97 mph at the top of the zone just about impossible to do anything with (especially when he might drop that hammer curve on you at any moment). As it was last year after his first four outings, we’re still seeing Craig Kimbrel be CRAIG KIMBREL. Other teams are no doubt seeing it, too. He’s one of the best relievers in baseball, and you’re reminded t
On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Tigers series preview
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The Tigers’ last winning season was 2016, when they finished 86-75.
Since then they have won 211 games and lost 369, which is a .364 winning percentage. That would be an average of 103 losses for almost five seasons, if there had been five full seasons since then. Yikes.
As you might know, BCB’s Ashley MacLennan is also an editor for SB Nation’s Tigers site Bless You Boys.
As such, I asked her to write a few words about the Tigers for this series preview.
The Tigers have had one of their worst starts to date, enough so that it has many (myself included) wondering if they’re on their way to having as bad a record as they did in either 2003 or 2019 when they lost over 100 games each year and in ‘19 came close to setting a record for being the losingest team in baseball history.