Much to my dismay Sianis is proven a prophet yet again. This game was much further out of reach than the shutout score would indicate, Cubs bats were practically lifeless against Kulber.
Sigh, well that’s why extended series are good despite the nay saying of some who pointedly drag their heavy coats out of the closet and make jokes about Thanksgiving games (you know, there’s a reason that Canadian Thanksgiving is in October and what’s the matter with a few, or 17 inches, of snowflakes anyway?). It’s a 162 game regular season that slows things down and every Series should have 7 games except the Wild Card which should have 5. This allows the best team with the greatest depth to prevail.
Or the Cubs sure hope so. Frankly part of me rebels against the concept that a single pitcher can carry a club through a whole Series but that doesn’t keep it from being used successfully by Managers who count on picking up the odd unexpected game here or there while ruining a player for life.
That’s why they call it the Big League bucko. There is no crying.
Tonight the Cubs will start their second Ace, Arrieta, while drone gashed Bauer attempts to not bleed all over the ball (seems a bit of a sacrifice for a spitter) and it all takes place an hour early in an attempt to out run the rain.
Good luck with that.
The worst case is that intermittent showers (which seem likely) delay things enough so that we have an official game (5 Innings at bat for the losers) by 11 pm.
Spahn and Sain and pray for rain, except in this case it works against the Cubs.
Then we’ll use Sain
Then an off day
Followed by rain
Back will come Spahn
Followed by Sain
And followed
We hope
By two days of rain
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Bottom of the 8th. Mike Montgomery pitching for the Cubs
Kipnis struck out
Lindor grounds out
Napoli singles to center
Cubs pitching change: Aroldis Chapman in for Montgomery
Ramirez struck out to end the 8th inning
Cubs 5 – Cleveland 1
Top of the 9th. Otero pitching for Cleveland
Correction Mike Clevinger pitching for Cleveland
Contras lined out
Heyward struck out
Russell lined out to end the top of the inning
Bottom of the 9th Chapman pitching for the Cubs
Davis struck out
Crisp grounds out
Guyer walked with 2 outs
Guyer steals 2nd
Perez grounded out to end the game
Final Cubs 5 – Cleveland 1
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Well, that’s 4 hours and 4 minutes you’ll never get back. Cubs 5-1 Final.
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