Monday 6/18 5p Tuesday 6/19 9a: Maeda (4-4, 3.61) vs. Chatwood (3-5, 4.12) LAD 4, CHC 3; Kyle Farmer wins it in the ninth
Tuesday 6/19 5p: Hill (1-2. 6.30) vs. Montgomery (2-2. 3.31)
Wednesday 6/20 11.20a: Stripling (6-1, 1.76) vs. Lester (8-2, 2.28)
The Dodgers are rolling, having not lost a series in their last nine series (8-0-1), climbing back to 1.5 games behind Arizona with a 37-33 record. But the Cubs are also gaining momentum in their chase with Milwaukee, where they're only a half-game back and a much more formidable 40-28 record.
A win in this series would portend great things before traveling to New York for the LOLMets, and then coming back home for four straight against this Cubs team again. Let's see if we can put our opponents in their cubby holes.
UPDATE 6/18 5p: The weather isn't cooperating for this first game, however (and Kris Bryant looks pretty bad in shorts; see below). No start time announced as of yet.
Tonight’s game will not start on time as inclement weather/heavy rain is forecast to enter the area.
— Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) June 18, 2018
With this being the Dodgers lone trip to Chicago this season, every effort will be made to play this game tonight. pic.twitter.com/5MFEc5ZKnT
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GAME 1 (assuming this game is played)
Pederson CF
Munch 2B
Turner 3B
Grandal C
Kemp LF
Bellinger 1B
Taylor SS
Puig RF
Maeda P
Joc HR makes it 1-0 Dodgers
Kenta playing with fire in the 2nd
3-2 cubs in the top of the seventh, one out and JT on first
Please be Good Kenley.
WIN
Holy shit! Dodgers win 4-3 on a top-9, two-out, two-strike, two-on double down the left field line to score two and take the lead.
Jansen with his 18th save.
Watching Alanna Rizzo interview Kemp on he post-game show after him getting thrown out in the sixth for arguing what was absolutely a shitty strike zone: Kemp showing a lot of maturity, saying that he should have kept his cool there and shouldn't have been thrown out. Also refuses to bag on the umps, despite Rizzo baiting. Way to go, Matty.
GAME 2
Taylor SS
Hernandez CF
Kemp LF
Muncy 3B
Puig RF
Bellinger 1B
Forsythe 2B
Barnes C
Hill P
RANCHO ARDIENDO
...and, the Dodgers strand the bases loaded in the second.
Cubs have first and second with one out, B2
0-0 B2
Cubs have first and third, two out. Cody just misses catching a looping foul ball down the right field line. And then Hill walks the bases loaded.
Hill gets a comebacker to get out of the inning.
0-0 through 2
Stranding more men than all three seasons of Gilligan's Island
Bellinger is a disaster. Bad strikeout to squash a threat in the third.
Dodgers waste another leadoff hit (Forsythe double) in the fourth, but the Cubs go 1-2-3 in the bottom of the fourth.
0-0 through 4
0-0 through 5.
We are roping the ball in the leadoff position, but can't do anything from there.
Puig with a very impatient AB to lead off the sixth, grounds out.
Here's cody, 1-for-his-last-15, 9 Ks
Cody works a one-out walk (his second of the game), but isn't going anywhere...
Bellinger with a SB with two out and a 1-1 count. Barnes at the plate
AUSTIN BARNES! Two-out single to left and he gets an RBI!
Rich Hill gets a biiiiiiig strikeout to end the sixth inning and strand a runne at third (and first).
1-0 LA through 6
$5 steak nachos at taco bell!
Anthony Bass in for Montgomery, top 7. Taylor leading off
CT3, leadoff single up the middle.
CAN WE GET HIM HOME??!!!
Kike lines one to first, Rizzo doubles up CT. Dammit
Cubs fans going nuts now. Look, it was a nice play and everything, but...
I really need a Kemp HR here
Schwarber HR. It's tied at 1.
1-1 through 7.
Randy Rosario in for the Cubs to pitch the eighth.
Schwarb'd
Muncy with a leadoff single. Another leadoff hit to start an inning for the Dodgers
CT leadoff single in the first (did not score)
Puig leadoff walk in the second (did not score)
Hernandez leadoff single in the third (did not score)
Forsythe leadoff double in the fourth (did not score)
Taylor leadoff single in the seventh (did not score)
Now Muncy in the eighth??? Guess what's gonna happen.
Puig promptly GIDPs.
1-1 through 8.
Parades with two Ks in the ninth. Zobrist up with one on pops up.
Turner leading off the tenth.
Leadoff walk. Let’s go Muncy!
Turner walks to open the 10th (will he score)
Logie Bear time
RANCHO ARDIENDO
Jesus
My god this game was depresssing
GAME 3
Taylor SS
Hernández CF
Turner 3B
Kemp LF
Forsythe 2B
Muncy 1B
Grandal C
Puig RF
Stripling P
Well, so much for that series streak.
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