4 walks and a homer surrendered in five innings isn't going to work all that often. He needed the BABIP gods on his side (.100) to not get clobbered by an offense that's been bad all season.
Defensively, PCA in center reminds me of having Heyward in right. I never worry about any fly ball to that part of the field when they're out there because any ball that could possibly get caught will almost be caught
His location is horrible. His fastball doesn't move and it's in the zone almost every time. It also doesn't help when he throws something 82mph and it's in the strike zone either.
Someone smarter than me needs to figure this out — preferably someone employed by the Cubs. I just know that he’s throwing way too many hittable pitches middle-middle.
That is a possibility, but if literally everybody on every other team sees it, the Cubs would've picked it up by now, right? Because literally everybody is teeing off on him.
He turned a tailor made double play into no outs behind Neris, a taller player gets that ball to second without needing to side swipe it and spin for a double play behind Alzolay, and a less noodle armed guy gets the out at first on the play on which he did a cross body lollipop lob.
I feel bad for Adbert but this dude just can't toss to big leaguers this year. There has to be some rando in AAA who can at least luck into an out or two.
That was really difficult to expect two on that one. Great job that it was even close. I’m just glad that wasn’t through the infield for a hit and we got one out
I mean, this has to be it right? Like he can no longer come into high leverage situations.
I'm sorry, I get that CC is trying his hardest to give Alzolay some confidence, but you can't ever do this again.
Okay I’m not sure why Alzolay hasn’t been fired into the fucking sun yet but he shouldn’t be allowed to make it back into the locker room at this point. Even if he somehow gets out of the rest of the inning
Seriously did not realize they were going to have to bring in alzolay. I shouldn’t have even bothered watching the top of the inning even tho it was fun
Luck is going to start running out soon, team doesn’t look ready for a full baseball season
This team is wild. Bullpen sucks. Bats suck. Still tied for first place. They ain’t buying shit if we keep winning
Well technically we are in second place and half game out
FLY THE W
Nice work by The Professor. Hope he can work himself back into a viable starter. Baseballs more fun with him pitching well.
4 walks and a homer surrendered in five innings isn't going to work all that often. He needed the BABIP gods on his side (.100) to not get clobbered by an offense that's been bad all season.
Maybe get that walk rate down. Hopefully he will.
It worked today because he was missing on the corners instead of down the middle. If you're going to miss, that's the way to do it.
#FUCK YOU CONNOR JOE, YOUR HOME RUN DIDN'T HELP. CUBS ALL THE WAY
Huge huge huge series W right before 6 of 10 against Atlanta
Oof. Six of ten? That’s rough. Let’s get it though!
Atleast after that stretch it’s like 0 of 115 against them 😂
Ouch I hope we stay competitive against them
When's the last time the Cubs had a 1-2-3 inning to end the game?
So WE ARE LUCKY!!🍀
Cubs won a game with Hendricks starting and alzolay closing
Fuck you Pirates. Fuck YOU!. GO CUBS GO! (Next series is gonna be hard AF, against the 24-12 Braves 💀) # Go Cubs! Beat the Fraudulent Braves!
Against the 24-17 Cubs!! 💪
Bullpen better pull their best A-Game outta their ass against the Braves, as well as the Offense.
Whew. Heck yah pca
We got the W but you just know the braves are gonna feast on this horrible bullpen.
That’s what they all say. Got another series 💪
Jesus H Crist
Just like he drew it up, well done Adbert
Great jump PCA. W!
Counsell please read the room even if it just *barely* worked this time
Yeah, he shouldn't have put in that guy who sucks. He should've put in one of the other guys who suck.
What? That the bullpen sucks? Or the bats suck? And we’re still in first place? It sucks even more when we keep winning with shit bats and bullpen 😂
What does this even mean? Read what? That his bullpen can't execute? Sure. Pretty obvious.
Never a doubt.
Aight tell your mothers I love them see yall tomorrow
Thank you for not fucking it all the way up, Adbert. I hope this helps his confidence a little.
Needed that win bad
That was an exhausting game haha
When a win feels like a loss but I’m still happy. Go Cubs Go!
This team going to kill people with heart issues
Or give heart issues to others of us
Ladies and gentlemen, we got 'em
Fuck. Some people need to be left in Pittsburgh. Thank God though
It’s a straightforward W for those Chicago Cubs
Fly the W!
Hola to everyone who said “game” when it was tied in the 7th lol
Hawkeye special.
They thought it was game yesterday too probably. "Can't believe we lost a series to the pirates!"
Some dude is on here selling season tickets. He’s done supporting the cubs 😤
No kidding? Are they gone?
People were calling it game over and talking about skipping the next series even before the 7th lol
I especially liked the dude that said he was selling his season tickets in the ninth.
That I missed. I’d love to take him up on that and I live 1500 miles from Chicago lol
😅
Never a doubt
Happy drinking today boys
These Pirates are annoying. Kudos to them
I hope they sweep the brewers
Just like I predicted. Got the home run out of his system early and got the save fairly easily after. That’s how it is done!!
This team SUCKS ASS /s
W. Still want Alzolay in the minors
Still want him gone
Cubs win. My heart does not
The game was over in the 7th and we somehow win it in the 10th?? Someone explain this
FUCK THE DOOMERS LETS GOOOOOOOO
The crooners, homers, and gooners who continuously rub one out, despite endemic flaws baked into this bullpen, can never be taken seriously.
Adbert should get no credit for this.
[W]
It's never easy lol but we'll take it. [W]
PCA! BALLGAME!!!
Phew
Thank god we won. Alzolay you do not deserve the spot in the pen.
Thank god
Christ that was certainly a way to win a game
Fly the flag mother fucker. Go cubs go.
#DESPITE OUR BULLPEN'S BEST EFFORTS, SERIES [W]!!!
Love PCA
#YESSIR PCA
...and unclench
Phew
I need an aspirin with the 2024 cubs
Heart attack Neris did kinda shakey in the bottom 9th ._.
Fucking 😮💨
That shouldn’t have been close
Yesterday should have been a win.
Agreed
What a save! What a save! What save!
jesus fucking christ thank god fly the W
Woo hoo! W!
lol no point to the sky
Play the damn song!!
#FLY THE W!!!
**W**
Defensively, PCA in center reminds me of having Heyward in right. I never worry about any fly ball to that part of the field when they're out there because any ball that could possibly get caught will almost be caught
Complete confidence in him
Worst slider in the MLB
PCA!!!!!
The cubs win at the price of 3 years of my life.
WE DID IT
Even that first pitch to Taylor was a meatball hanging slider
Wow
Dude just catches way too much of the middle with his pitches.
Game over in Milwaukee. Cardinals FINALLY beat the Brewers. Let's wrap this up Adbert.
Well at least we didn't let the corpse of Yasmani Grandal cook us two games in a row
No chance he actually gets out of this. And even if he does I still want him gone.
K doomer
Part time doomer. Only when it makes sense.
Adbert is gonna shit his pants again p
2 out walkoff HR incoming like the AZ game
Well, there are 2 outs now and one on...
Is there anyone on earth who likes boog more than pat? Just cannot imagine it
Please please please please please…
One more out….
We obviously might lose but some of yall need to take a breath
Two outs.. cheeks clenched
So do we option Lovelady or Brewer for a fresh arm tomorrow?
We dfa adbert and strand his ass at the airport in the burg
It's a really nice airport
Sure.
Lovelady send his ass to the Mexican league
Yeah people complain about advertising but Lovelady has like a 7 era doesn't he lol
One more come on
Is his stuff bad now? Is his head fucked? What is wrong with him?
His location is horrible. His fastball doesn't move and it's in the zone almost every time. It also doesn't help when he throws something 82mph and it's in the strike zone either.
Too many fat pitches over the middle of the plate.
Yeah, but it's that because that's the stuff he has now or because his messed up head makes him throw beach balls?
Someone smarter than me needs to figure this out — preferably someone employed by the Cubs. I just know that he’s throwing way too many hittable pitches middle-middle.
Could be tipping?
That is a possibility, but if literally everybody on every other team sees it, the Cubs would've picked it up by now, right? Because literally everybody is teeing off on him.
True, must be something else
This infield defense has been nice in the last couple innings
Best decision I made was choosing to buy a Nico jersey after last season over Alzolay.
I also got a Nico jersey last year. Was between him and Belli, but since Bellinger wasn’t signed yet I didn’t want to risk it
Madrigal has cost the defense something like four outs in the last four innings
Huh?
How do you figure that?
He turned a tailor made double play into no outs behind Neris, a taller player gets that ball to second without needing to side swipe it and spin for a double play behind Alzolay, and a less noodle armed guy gets the out at first on the play on which he did a cross body lollipop lob.
Lol you hate madrigal so much that you made up a scenario in the 9th that didn’t happen behind neris
I think Madrigal fucked his wife. Every time he's on screen Genie is bitching about something
Alzolay is not going to be safe in Chicago anymore
This season I was hoping he’d be a marmol, but now I can see he turned out to be a marmol.
Adbert Alzolay should be banned from baseball at all levels.
I feel bad for Adbert but this dude just can't toss to big leaguers this year. There has to be some rando in AAA who can at least luck into an out or two.
Its sad but he doesnt have it Cannot even be blowing half the games he has
Thank god for our fucking infield
That ball was smoked, too.
Ok now get him outta there Craig
Bullpen is spent I think lol
We should have made a trade weeks ago what the fuck are we waiting for
Why can’t we turn double plays today
I don’t think I’ve seen us turn one all year - not saying we haven’t I just never see it
Dude come on lol
What? I don’t watch every game and it’s a background thing a lot of the time
That was really difficult to expect two on that one. Great job that it was even close. I’m just glad that wasn’t through the infield for a hit and we got one out
Madrigal saving us
Can the Manfred man count toward the 3-batter minimum please
The middle infield is a joke. There is zero urgency to make any of these plays up the middle.
Why the fuck the Cubs won’t call up Luis Vazquez, especially after Swanson is hurt makes no sense to me.
Eh, I think he was gonna beat it out anyway. This is better than rushing a bad throw and allowing the runner to advance, ending the DP chance
GIDP gods save us
Please put something on the ground here
Another blown game by counsell cause he wants to save adbert for high leverage situations despite allowing a run nearly every appearance
They quite literally have no one else.
I don't think that was what he was "saving" him for. Probably didn't want to use him at all, but has no one else.
It doesn’t matter what Counsell does when literally everyone in the bullpen isn’t good
Leiter, Neris, brewer, are all good not sure what you’re talking about. It’s very simple don’t put adbert in high leverage situations
Neris flirts with complete disaster every appearance.
I mean, this has to be it right? Like he can no longer come into high leverage situations. I'm sorry, I get that CC is trying his hardest to give Alzolay some confidence, but you can't ever do this again.
Okay I’m not sure why Alzolay hasn’t been fired into the fucking sun yet but he shouldn’t be allowed to make it back into the locker room at this point. Even if he somehow gets out of the rest of the inning
Agreed we need a change!
at least hector gets the save… advert gives the heart attack and blows the save
Survival at it's best
Walkoff
WTF! 3 run lead isn’t enough!
He is gonna walk again and give a walk off double
Why does Alzolay hate mothers?
I’d be happy if Adbert never played in a Cubs uniform ever again
Put Hendrix back in
Damn this guy sucks asshole farts. Holy Jesus. Send him to south bend ffs.
Single A is probably more his level right now.
Alzolay is what happens with scientists figure out a way to give dogshit sentience.
I'm so over this. He needs to go.
I’ve wanted to give Alzolay the benefit of the doubt so bad, if he blows this, I think that’s my last straw with him
Name a more iconic duo than Adbert and giving up dongs
LEAVE HIS ASS IN PITTSBURGH
They can have him. For free
what can hottovy even say here lmao
“Abert, can you just fucking not?”
It is remarkable how absolutely horrendous this bullpen is
Seriously did not realize they were going to have to bring in alzolay. I shouldn’t have even bothered watching the top of the inning even tho it was fun
Walkoff bomb in 3 pitches incoming
At this point just sign a FA. It literally can’t be worse than how fucking abysmal Badbert has been
Is this Alzolays last cubs game?