2015 St. Louis Cardinals

[Chavez Ravine]

Nearly forty pitches for Lester already. Rust or the Cubbie curse?

[Chavez Ravine]

I'll get there eventually. I would have liked to have gone before the renovations.

Yeah, I missed getting to see the OG Comiskey...and Yankee stadium for that matter. My first baseball game ever was in Tiger stadium though.

[Crazysilver03]

Cubs playing like it is first day of Spring Training.

[Chavez Ravine]

Jorge Soler's at bats this game have been pretty mediocre. I haven't watched him at all, but this game didn't make meke me sit up and take notice.

[OFFNY]

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I thought that that ball was 40 feet over the wall.

40 feet over the wall.

I have no idea how it stayed in the park.

Wainwright was laughing because he had thought the same thing.

[OFFNY]

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ADAM WAINWRIGHT O (vs. CUBS, 4/05) *

IP:O6

H:O 5 (3 Doubles, 2 Singles)

R:.o 0

BB:o0

SO:o6

Pitches: 101 (60 Strikes, 41 Balls)

2015 ERA: 0.00

* Wainwright's 2015 Season Debut

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[Tryptamine]

Anybody notice Jordan Walden cheating tonight?

[berettafan]

caught the first several innings before falling asleep. never paid attention to the cubs before but my goodness that was some sloppy baseball last night. yadi spent a lot of time in the dirt and lester took a LOT of heat from the commentators over his apparent inability to pick anyone off.

[Crazysilver03]

caught the first several innings before falling asleep. never paid attention to the cubs before but my goodness that was some sloppy baseball last night. yadi spent a lot of time in the dirt and lester took a LOT of heat from the commentators over his apparent inability to pick anyone off.

They said something like Lester hasn't tried a pickoff since May 2013. Crazy.

[berettafan]

They said something like Lester hasn't tried a pickoff since May 2013. Crazy.

Yes but there's more!!!!

His numbers went from something like 60-70 attempts in a year to 5-10 overnight! I think this was in 2010?

[berettafan]

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/instagraphs/jon-lester-pickoff-throws-but/

correction was 2011...and numbers were even bigger!

WOW!!!

[backwardsk]

They said something like Lester hasn't tried a pickoff since May 2013. Crazy.

Did you see him field a come backer with Hayward on 2B? He had him dead to rights but looked too timid to throw to third.

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[berettafan]

Did you see him field a come backer with Hayward on 2B? He had him dead to rights but looked too timid to throw to third.

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indeed it underlined what the announcers were saying in a very strong way.

[Crazysilver03]

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/instagraphs/jon-lester-pickoff-throws-but/

correction was 2011...and numbers were even bigger!

WOW!!!

Was there an incident that led to the change?

[OFFNY]

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(vs. CUBS, 4/09)

Lance Lynn pitched like Eddie Cicotte did in Game Four of the 1919 World Series.

Cicotte was cruising along until his own error (plus an additional misplay on a cutoff) led to 2 unearned runs, which was all that the Reds needed to win that day (2-0.)