Oct 26 2016

World Series 2016 Game 2: Cubs @ Indians

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.

First we’ll use Spahn
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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  1. Fly to Center. 1 Down

  2. Rizzo grounded out

  3. Put Out at 1st. 2 Down

  4. Zobrist walked on 4 pitches

  5. 4 Pitch Walk

  6. Schwarber walked. 7th walk by Cleveland pitchers this game

  7. Baez flied out to center to end the top of the inning

    Cubs 5 – Cleveland 0

  8. Bottom 6th

  9. Bottom of the 6th Arrieta pitching for the Cus

  10. Santana flied out to left field

  11. 1 Out

  12. Kipnis doubles

  13. A Double. First hit for the Indians

  14. Lindor grounds out; Kipnis to 3rd

  15. Sacrifice. Runner at 3rd

  16. Kipnis scores on a wild pitch

  17. RBI Wild Pitch. Cubs 5 – 1

  18. Napoli singles.

  19. And a Single.

  20. New Arm for the Cubs

  21. Cubs pitching change Mike Montgomery in for Arrieta

  22. Top 7th

  23. Ramirez grounded out to end the 6th inning.

    Cubs 5 – Cleveland 1

  24. Top of the 7th with Jeff Manship pitching for Cleveland

  25. Leadoff Walk

  26. Contreras lead off walk. 8th walk by Cleveland pitcher

  27. Heyward fled out to center. Contreras holds at 1st

  28. Fly. E for Effort. Pffbt.

  29. Russell singles; Contreras to 2nd

  30. Single. More Like

  31. Fowler singles to load the bases

  32. Hit. Bases Loaded

  33. And…. more pitching

  34. Cleveland pitching change Dan Otero in for Manship

  35. Bryant sinlges. Contreras out at the plate

  36. Out at the Plate on Force. Loaded 2 Out

  37. Rizzo flied out to left to end the top of the 7th

  38. Bottom 7th

  39. Bottom of the 7th. Montgomery pitching for Cubs

  40. Rajal Davis hitting for Chisenhall. Davis struck out

  41. Crisp struck out

  42. Brandon Guyer hitting for Naquin. Guyer singles on a line drive

  43. Huyre to 2nd on a wild pitch

  44. Perez walked

  45. So Top 8th

  46. Santana struck out to end the 7th inning

    Cubs 5 – Cleveland 1

  47. Top of the 8th inning. Dan Otero pitching for Cleveland

  48. Zobrist grounds out

  49. Schwarber struck out

  50. Baez grounds out to end the top if the inning

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