Thursday, September 01, 2016

Scoreboard Watching: Giants @ Cubs (Sept 1, 2016)

Thanks to the Dodgers' improbable win late last night in Colorado (at one point, Colorado had a 99.0% chance of winning), led by the heroics of the surprising Andrew Toles (who took the Rockies' 84.4% chance of winning the game and turned it into a 14.4% chance, with one swing of the bat), the Dodgers now wield a 1.5-game lead in the NL West.

We have a rare off-day today but the Giants open up a four-game series in Chicago. While the Cubs' 15-game lead over the Cardinals in the Central means they will probably be resting all their good players this series, let's hope they can still give the Giants fits. Game 1 today pits SF's Jeff Samardzija (11-9, 4.00) vs. Chicago's Mike Montgomery (4-5, 2.60). Montgomery is 1-1 with a 3.18 ERA in his two starts this season, but he wasn't a very good coach of the Golden State Warriors (he was much better at Stanford).

This game probably won't end up the Dodgers' (or Cubs') way, but who knows. First pitch, 5p.

10 comments:

Steve Sax said...

Giants score twice in the first, but Cubs have scored twice to tie it and are still batting

Steve Sax said...

Samardzija already at 32 pitches wth one out

Steve Sax said...

3-2 Cubs through 1

Orel said...

Not a pitchers' duel I see

Steve Sax said...

And it's 3-3 through 2

Steve Sax said...

Giants started action in the bullpen...in the first

Orel said...

Ugh. C'mon, Cubs

Orel said...

4-3 Giants, bot 4. GET IT TOGETHER CUBS

Orel said...

2-RBI single by Addison Russell makes it 5-4 Cubs, bot 7!

Orel said...

THANK YOU FOR GETTING IT TOGETHER CUBS