MLB - the 7th Inning Stretch

Re: MLB - the 7th Inning Stretch

Postby 3Peatkb24 » Thu Aug 01, 2019 10:06 am

I seen odds earlier that showed for teams to win the World Series. This just came out after all the trades, as of August 1st:
Dodgers 2.5 to 1
Astros 2.5 to 1
Yankees 4 to 1
Cubs 7 to 1
Braves 7 to 1
Twins 8 to 1
Cardinals 8 to 1
Red Sox 10 to 1
Indians 10 to 1


-That was the top 9. Astros were 4.5 to 1 before the Greinke deal. Now ESPN has them even with the Dodgers. Cubs are 7 to 1 odds, I just hope we win our division :roflmao: . I would lay down 100 dollars in Vegas at a possibility to win 700 on the Cubs though.

-I see why the Twins are 8 to 1 and the Cubs and Braves are ahead of them. It is because the AL has 2 powerhouses to get through and the NL only has 1 in LA. It will be really tough for the Twins to even make the WS.
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Re: MLB - the 7th Inning Stretch

Postby 3Peatkb24 » Thu Aug 01, 2019 7:12 pm

Cards beat us big tonight but that is fine. We won 1 so leave that filthy place only 1 game out :roflmao: . Next time they play us it is at Wrigley. At Wrigley we are Batman not Robin :waaaaa: . I was hoping we could take 2 of 3 but normally when we play them at St Louis we lose 2 of 3. Nature of huge rivalries.
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Re: MLB - the 7th Inning Stretch

Postby 3Peatkb24 » Fri Aug 02, 2019 4:05 pm

Cubs spank Brewers 6-2 but tomorrow is a different day :waaaaa: .
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Re: MLB - the 7th Inning Stretch

Postby lakerevolution » Fri Aug 02, 2019 4:46 pm

Just booked a flight and hotel for LA in three weeks - now I just gotta hope my Dodger scout buddy comes thru with the tix! Dodgers vs. Yankees on Sunday August 25th 4pm, should be a great night out!
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Re: MLB - the 7th Inning Stretch

Postby 3Peatkb24 » Sat Aug 03, 2019 3:16 pm

Cubs spank Brewers again 4-1. Cole Hamels is back now and he pitched fantastic today. We are getting healthy. We are tied for 1st in the NL Central again with the Cards. We are now 3 ahead of the Brewers. The Cubs are 59-51 through 110 games which is good, we have to win more on the road down the stretch though to be a legit contender to win a WS.
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Re: MLB - the 7th Inning Stretch

Postby 3Peatkb24 » Sun Aug 04, 2019 6:51 pm

Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! Cubs sweep Brewers and now lead the NL Central by 1.5 over the Cards. Cards lost again today as well. Cubs are now 60-51, Cards 58-52.
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Re: MLB - the 7th Inning Stretch

Postby 3Peatkb24 » Mon Aug 05, 2019 8:46 pm

Cubs take down the red hot A's tonight 6-5. Cubs once again impose their will at home where they rarely lose. That was the loudest I have heard a Wrigley crowd all season. The A's have a very good team, very nice challenge for the Cubs. Dodgers are smoking the Cards 6-0 :roflmao: . After tonight the Cubs will be 2.5 ahead of the Cards and still 4 ahead of the Brewers in the black and blue in NL Central. Cubs improve to 10 games over .500 with tonight's win at 61-51. August baseball is when the great teams shine, go Cubs go, go Cubs go!
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Re: MLB - the 7th Inning Stretch

Postby KobeMVP888 » Mon Aug 05, 2019 9:27 pm

Annnd heeere's your NY Yankees update! The injuries keep coming, but the Yankees somehow keep winning! ALL 9 runs tonight came from 5-9 in the lineup, mostly AAA players who no one ever heard of. They have not lost since the trade deadline, when they stood pat. After the pitching staff got battered by the Red Sox a few weekends ago, losing the first three games by a combined score of 38-13, they won game 4 and then swept the Sox in 4 games this past weekend, giving up a total of only 12 runs against last season's champs. Meanwhile, Severino and Betances should be ready for the stretch run and the playoffs. Right now, Stanton, Voit, Sanchez, Urshela and Hicks are all on the shelf and Judge hasn't hit a home run to left field all season following his oblique injury. Aaron Boone is the clear cut Manager of the Year right now the way he has had to shuffle lineups and handle his staff, particularly the brilliant bullpen. Oh, and Aroldis Chapman is hitting 102 mph again, a great sign. They are mano y mano with the Dodgers and Astros for the best record in baseball despite mediocre starting pitching and more inuries than any team in baseball this season. I love this team!
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Re: MLB - the 7th Inning Stretch

Postby 3Peatkb24 » Mon Aug 05, 2019 9:57 pm

KobeMVP888 wrote:Annnd heeere's your NY Yankees update! The injuries keep coming, but the Yankees somehow keep winning! ALL 9 runs tonight came from 5-9 in the lineup, mostly AAA players who no one ever heard of. They have not lost since the trade deadline, when they stood pat. After the pitching staff got battered by the Red Sox a few weekends ago, losing the first three games by a combined score of 38-13, they won game 4 and then swept the Sox in 4 games this past weekend, giving up a total of only 12 runs against last season's champs. Meanwhile, Severino and Betances should be ready for the stretch run and the playoffs. Right now, Stanton, Voit, Sanchez, Urshela and Hicks are all on the shelf and Judge hasn't hit a home run to left field all season following his oblique injury. Aaron Boone is the clear cut Manager of the Year right now the way he has had to shuffle lineups and handle his staff, particularly the brilliant bullpen. Oh, and Aroldis Chapman is hitting 102 mph again, a great sign. They are mano y mano with the Dodgers and Astros for the best record in baseball despite mediocre starting pitching and more injuries than any team in baseball this season. I love this team!


As of heading into August 6th, the teams that are the best to me are:

1. Astros because of overall pitching
2. Dodgers
3. Your Yankees
4. Cubs are here

-What is great about playoff baseball though, whoever gets the breaks and is healthier wins in the ALCS/NLCS. The team with the best record doesn't always win as you know.

Chapman is one of my favorite all-time Cubs. He got the win in Game 7 of the 2016 WS. He was pitching 103 then :beavis: . You guys have been like us, injury after injury. Cubs have had so many injuries this season that it makes me think 2019 is jinxed. Kimbrel is now on the 10 day IL list.
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Re: MLB - the 7th Inning Stretch

Postby 3Peatkb24 » Wed Aug 07, 2019 4:27 pm

Cubs crush the Oakland A's today 10-1. Took 2 out of 3 vs the A's. A's have a very good team so I feel good about this. Now we have some cushion in the NL Central finally for the 1st time all season.

NL Central Standings look like this:
Cubs 62-52
Cards 58-55 (3.5 back)
Brewers 59-56 (3.5 back)
Reds 54-58 (7 back)
Pirates 48-65 (13.5 back)
I'll take this with it being August 7th baby! The Cubs are playing the best baseball that I have seen them play all season. They just need to be more consistent on the road. They start a 4 game series on the road at Reds tomorrow.
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Re: MLB - the 7th Inning Stretch

Postby lakerevolution » Thu Aug 08, 2019 4:38 pm

Jesse Rogers - ESPN Staff Writer


"Going into the four-game series with the Cincinnati Reds that begins Thursday, Chicago hasn't won a road series since May 17-19 and is the only team in baseball that owns such a dubious streak during that time. That's a span of 10 road series in which the Cubs have either split or lost. It has led to a 21-33 road mark -- compared to their stellar 41-19 record at home. Wrigley Field is the reason the Cubs are in first place. The road could be the reason they drop out of it.

"To be two different teams, completely, is very awkward," Joe Maddon said recently. "I don't have any solid answers. The process has been the same. The work has been the same. Their attitude has been good."

"It's a story now," first baseman Anthony Rizzo said. "We have to answer questions about it because we haven't played well on the road."

Rizzo is just one of many good players on the team who has pronounced home and road splits. He's hitting .322 at Wrigley Field and .244 away from the friendly confines. Pitcher Kyle Hendricks has a 4.32 road ERA compared to a 1.98 mark at home. The list goes on and on.

The Cubs, who finished 5-1 on their just completed homestand, wouldn't be the first or second or even third team to win a division despite having a road record of 10 games under .500 or worse. In fact, the 1987 World Series champion Minnesota Twins went 29-52 on the road -- and won their division.

"I have no explanation for how a good team plays well at home and then goes on the road and struggles as badly as we did in '87 -- and as bad as we're struggling this year on the road," Cubs assistant general manager Randy Bush, who played on that Twins team, said this week. "We're going on the road here, and I fully expect us to have a great road trip, and I know that our players have been talking about going out and having a great road trip. It's on their mind."

The 1987 Twins made the postseason thanks to a 56-25 home record. The Cubs are on pace to become the fourth team since divisional play was introduced in 1969 to win their division despite being 10-plus games under .500 on the road. The 2006 Cardinals and 2008 White Sox also won division crowns with subpar road records.

"I remember saying we should wear our home uniforms on the road," said Ozzie Guillen, the White Sox manager in '08. His team was 35-46 on the road that season but won the AL Central by a game over Minnesota. You might think a Type-A personality such as Guillen would try anything -- besides changing uniforms -- to alter his team's fortunes on the road, but he said staying the course is actually what's best.

"When you do that, you panic," Guillen said of changing the road routine. "And your players see that. You have to stay the same no matter what it is, good or bad."

Keeping even-keeled is one of Maddon's strengths, so the Cubs are covered there. Like Bush's Twins, Maddon's team simply keeps believing that the next trip will be a winning one.

"We had a passionate home crowd, and we thrived off of that," Bush said. "And we played really well. Then we would go on the road and have great expectations -- every time -- and every time we would really struggle. And kept repeating it over and over."

What Bush describes sounds eerily similar to the Cubs this season. Homestand after homestand, they produce big wins and victorious series, averaging 5.62 runs per game at Wrigley. But all that excitement gets flushed down the toilet once the team hits the road, where the Cubs average 4.96 runs per game. The results on the mound are even more pronounced: 3.83 given up per game at home, 4.89 on the road.

"There was always that feeling that we would win that ballgame at home," 2006 Cardinals outfielder Brad Thompson said. "We just knew it was going to happen. For some reason on the road, we didn't have that."

Thompson points to injuries to major stars as one reason those Cards -- who were 34-47 on the road -- kept coming up short away from home. But those players also missed time at Busch Stadium. Perhaps it comes down to a team's flaws being more of an issue on the road, where the challenges are a little greater. In the Cubs' case, the team isn't as deep as it once was. It's possible that lack of depth is showing up more away from home, which then leads to players pressing. At some point, the struggles become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

"We get here [home], and we relax," Javier Baez said earlier in the week. "We let the game come to us. With the record we have, we go on the road, and there's pressure to win the game before it's over."
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Re: MLB - the 7th Inning Stretch

Postby 3Peatkb24 » Thu Aug 08, 2019 10:56 pm

Rev, I have no answers for it either and great post by the way. Thanks for that. We beat the Reds at Cincy tonight so that is a start. Over the last 5 seasons we have basically been the best team in baseball from 2015-2019 but our road record this season is concerning. We got the Win tonight and now lead the Brewers by 3.5 and the Cards by 4 in the NL Central. If we do win our division, other teams will be in trouble if we steal one on the road in the playoffs, especially game 1 because we rarely lose at home :cheers: .

Last 5 seasons the Cubs resume is:
2015 = 97-65 (lost in NLCS)
2016 = 103-58 (World Champs)
2017 = 92-70 (lost in NLCS)
2018 = 95-66 (lost in Wildcard round)
2019 = 63-52 (still a ways to go lol) but 1st in the NL Central

*450 wins, 311 losses = 59.1% winnings in the regular season + 1 World Series win. If we do not get our act together on the road this year, there will be no #2 World Series win. To me the Dodgers (you guys) are the team to beat in the NL but I have said that all season. I think it will come down to the Cubs and Dodgers in the NLCS again, it just depends on who is healthy and who is hot. Brewers were a fluke last season IMO. Yelich is bad ass though.
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Re: MLB - the 7th Inning Stretch

Postby KobeMVP888 » Fri Aug 09, 2019 8:36 am

Yankees update:

9 in a row as the Yankees crush the ball again and win 12-6 and own the best record in baseball! Once again, a brilliant job managing the pitching staff by Aaron Boone. The starters and bullpen are well rested as Boone rolls out the end of the rotation guys. The replacement players mashed again, too!

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Re: MLB - the 7th Inning Stretch

Postby lakerevolution » Fri Aug 09, 2019 4:12 pm

KobeMVP888 wrote:Yankees update:

9 in a row as the Yankees crush the ball again and win 12-6 and own the best record in baseball! Once again, a brilliant job managing the pitching staff by Aaron Boone. The starters and bullpen are well rested as Boone rolls out the end of the rotation guys. The replacement players mashed again, too!

#StartSpreadingThe News


Looks like a go for the tickets Kenny so if you can make it Sun. Aug. 25th you have a seat to witness perhaps a WS preview as the two best teams in baseball wrap up a 3-game series!
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Re: MLB - the 7th Inning Stretch

Postby 3Peatkb24 » Mon Aug 12, 2019 10:21 pm

The Cubs won a huge game at Cincy on Sunday to get out of that series 2-2. The road woes looked like they were continuing until former MVP Kris Bryant stepped up and hit a 3 run HR in the 7th inning to give the Cubs a 5-3 lead. NL Central standings heading into August 13th look like this:

Cubs 64-54
Cards 61-55 (2 back)
Brewers 62-57 (2.5 back)
Reds 56-61 (7.5 back)
Pirates 49-69 (15 back)

-Cubs currently hold the #3 seed in the NL only behind the #1 Dodgers and #2 Braves. A place that manager Joe Maddon is fine with for now. Maddon - the key to going deep in the playoffs is staying out of that Wildcard spot. Winning your division is very important. Kris Bryant regarding his game winning HR, that is what MVP's do.

-Season is 75% over folks.
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