Yes, I still think we have the advantage. And this game has just not gone our way on any level. Maeda pitched decently last time but we do need a big game from him. What we really need is our bats to get going when it matters. We can win on other teams field. We will see what these boys have after getting punched in the mouth today. We bounce back and win tomorrow I think we are def going to the WS.
Maeda is better at home, but he's just about cooked. You can tell he's tired up there after about 3-4 innings and he's a guy who usually takes 1-2 innings to get settled so that leaves veeeeery little room for error. We still get Kershaw and Hill on full rest back in Chicago no matter what so we have a chance, but boy if we could steal Maeda's game tomorrow we're in awesome shape. Just have to win one more with our two best pitchers. My fear is we gave a game like this to them and woke their bats up. If Rizzo starts hitting like Rizzo again, that's a real problem.
I think Rizzo will be a problem if we can't keep him in the yard. But if Maeda can hit his spots I think we negate him too. The real scary guy on their team to me is Baez. I don't think we mess with that kid much. Bryant is on but he stays in the yard for the most part. In any case I was thinking about this driving home today. I am still uber confident we will win cause essentially we have to win a series and split 2 series. We split the first series already (gm 1 and 2), and we are on our Home series (gm 3,4,5) which we have done a pretty good job of winning our home series against teams, yes, we have had some hiccups but more often than not we have been winning our home series, then we have the last series (gm 6,7) again just split it and we are going to big show. Add to that I think if we were to line up Maeda, Kersh and Hill and say could we take 2 out of 3? i'd put my money on that 10/10 times. I hope I'm right and like Real said, win this game and we are golden.
Alrignt i came in at bottom 1. We got Keke on base and he dances around but never steals the bag. If he stole the bag he scores on the hit but instead we get 1st and 2nd. Then deep fly ball only moves him to 3rd. Ground out makes out 3. We wasted a run out there. Can't do that
Maeda lets 2 get on with no out. gets the next 2 outs. Now Roberts pulls him with Lester coming up. Fields need to get lester to get out of this inning.
damn Bryant smokes a liner to center where Joc can't get up to for the double. Dayton in to face Rizzo
im losing my faith right now. we need to answer this back or we will not win this game (obviously). Turner hits a liner but right to Heyward. Seager gets the single
and the wheels have fallen off. They got 2 more runs on balls that didnt leave the infield. Right now Cubs doing everything right.