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. Bottom of the 3rd with Arrieta pitching for the Cubs

  2. Roberto Pérez struck out

  3. Leadoff K

  4. Carlos Santana struck out

  5. 3 in a Row for Arietta

  6. Top 4th

  7. Kipnis flied to end the 3rd inning

    Cubs 2 – Cleveland 0

  8. Top of the 4th inning with Bauer pitching for Cleveland

  9. Contreras walked

  10. 1 On, Walk

  11. Soler grounded into a double play

  12. Double Play

  13. Russell base hit into center

  14. A Single. Bauer chased. Too fucking late for and RBI if you ask me but whatever.

  15. KO. Bottom 4th

  16. It’s Ninja Baseball!

  17. K #5

  18. Fly Center

  19. Another 2 Out Walk

  20. Top 5th

  21. Leadoff KO

  22. 10 Pitch Walk

  23. RBI Triple. Cubs 3 – 0

  24. RBi triple for Zobrist

    Cubs 3 – Cleveland 0

  25. New Arm

  26. Cleveland pitching change Shaw in for McAllister

  27. 3 is good, but I’d feel a lot better if the Cubs put this one out of reach asap.

  28. Schwarber RBI single

    Cubs 4 _ Cleveland 0

  29. RBI Single. Cubs 4 – 0

  30. Wild Pitch. Runner advances

  31. Schwarber to 2nd on a wild pitch to Baez

  32. Baez struck out

  33. KO for 2

  34. Contreras singled; Baez to 3rd Error on Cleveland

  35. An Error. 2 On 2 Out

  36. Soler walked. Bases loaded with 2 outs

  37. Well, it was Corners. a Walk, now Loaded.

  38. RBI Walk. Cubs 3 – 0, 9th batter.

  39. Jason Heyward to run for Soler. Russell walked. Unearned run

    Cubs 5 – Cleveland 0

  40. KO and Finally the Bottom of the 5th

  41. Bases still loaded. 2 puts

    Fowler struck out to end the top of the inning

    Cubs 5 – Cleveland 0

  42. Bottom of the 5th with Arrieta pitching for the Cubs

  43. Crisp flies out to left field

  44. Naquin struck out

  45. Perez flied out to left field to end the 5th inning

  46. Top 6th

  47. Phew. I worried that was out of there.

  48. Ok, I think I’m re-oriented, slow updating on my game ticker. Cubs at bat in the Top of the 6th leading 5 – 0

  49. Top of the 6th with Danny Salazar pitching for Cleveland

  50. Bryant flies out to center

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