I missed the Cards vs. Cubs recap. They won 3 of 5 against the Corona-Birds, there's your recap. Onto this weekends action. It's a well known fact the White Sox lineup is absolutely loaded with young and exciting talent, they have a really nice balance of good veteran bats and electric young talent up and down their lineup. That's what made this weekends crosstown series so interesting, the Chicago Cubs, while being the team that has underachieved the past couple of seasons, have successful executed a full on blow it up rebuild that resulted in them winning a World Series, get to take on the Chicago White Sox, who are entering year one of expecting to be competitive after a full tear it down rebuild. Obviously the storyline of sharing the city and who is king of the city and blah blah blah make this fun and intriguing. This is the first time since 2008 that both of these teams are legitimately competitive and that's what makes this so fun. Enough babbling, lets get into what happened.
GAME ONE - White Sox-10, Cubs-1
The Cubs had big dick Jon Lester starting for them and he started like the 58 year old accountant with the smallest package gym locker room instead. This was actually a pretty bad match up for Lester from the jump. It was a perfect storm of ugly for Jon as he tried to take on a Sox lineup that absolutely MASHES left handed pitching and he had a bad night hitting his spots (leaving a 90 MPH cutter over the heart of the plate to Luis fucking Robert is probably not going to work out), this resulting in him giving up 8 earned runs in just 3 2/3 innings of work, thats not great. This was really a beatdown from the jump as the Cubs never got into it with an offense that is sputtering as a whole, but especially against left handing pitching as they could get nothing going all night against Dallas Keuchel. They got their asses whooped by a good team, shit happens.
GAME TWO - White Sox-7, Cubs-4
This was a good matchup for the Cubs. They trotted out the calm and cool Kyle Hendricks and he was a professional as usual. He made a mistake and gave up a bomb to Luis Robert, gave up a few more weak knocks before the modern day Babe fucking Ruth, Jose Abreu, hit a his 3rd of 800 home runs for the weekend. and the Cubs could not get anything going offensively....... again. It actually felt like it couldn't get more infuriating but it someone did (more on that during the Sunday game). But not to bore you with the details but the bullpen shit the bed and the offense had a bunch of fake rallies and the Cubs lost 7-4.
GAME THREE - Cubs-2, White Sox-1
This felt better. The Cubs had that bad bad man Yu Darvish on the bump to face the RED HOT White Sox and he was spectacular again. Yu went 7 Innings, gave up one run on a mistake pitch the the white hot Jose Abreu, but other than that was just about untouchable as he struck out 10 and gave up only 1 walk. As for how good Yu was, the offense was equally that bad. Now, before any Sox fans that read this chastise me, Dylan Cease has awesome stuff, and he's going to be an awesome pitcher, but he was all over the place. Fastballs down the gut, sliders hanging, he struggles with his location at times. And the fact the Cubs could only manage to squeak 2 runs out of this game was pathetic. They were able to get runners on 2nd and 3rd with 1 out in the 4th and load the bases with 0 (zero) outs in the 5th and scored exactly 0 runs both times. That's actually fucking embarrassing. It's like they just get up there with the bases loaded and just wanna fuck around and play tummy sticks. I mean holy fuck, I can only handle so much. Thankfully Kyle Schwarber saved the day with a 2 run shot before Craig Kimbrel and Jeremy Jeffress made us shit our pants for 2 innings.
The Cubs head to Detroit team that I know has some fun young arms, so naturally the Cubs probably won't be able to touch them. First pitch is 6:10 pm CST tomorrow night.
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