Sunday notes… Cubs lineup: Reds lineup: Jameson Taillon, RHP vs. Andrew Abbott, LHP Jameson Taillon has had his season interrupted twice by injuries, but when healthy he’s been really solid all year. His last four starts have produced a 1.69 ERA and 0.984 WHIP, with just one home run allowed in 21.1 innings. In a […]
Sunday notes…
- THREE IS THE NUMBER OF THE COUNTING: The Cubs have lost three games in a row for the fifth time this season. Each of the previous times, they avoided a fourth loss by winning on the road: May 10 at New York vs. the Mets, June 25 at St Louis, Aug. 29 at Colorado and Sept. 9 at Atlanta. The 29 other teams have had 155 streaks of at least four straight losses, an average of more than five per team. (Courtesy BCB’s JohnW53)
- FOUR IS RIGHT OUT: The Cubs last dropped four in a row June 23-26 of last year: one at home vs. the Mets, then three at San Francisco. They lost three, then won, four times later in the season, so they have avoided a fourth loss eight times since they last suffered one. (Courtesy BCB’s JohnW53)
- PUT THOSE BROOMS AWAY, CINCINNATI: The Cubs have been swept in only two of their previous 18 four-game series at Cincinnati since 2000, in 2014 and 2018. Last year, the Cubs lost the first three games of a series, then won the fourth. The last time the Cubs lost all four games of a series was July 7-10, 2022, at Los Angeles vs. the Dodgers. (Courtesy BCB’s JohnW53)
- MAGIC NUMBER: The Cubs’ magic number to clinch the top wild-card spot over the Padres remained at 4 following the Cubs’ loss and Padres’ win Saturday. Thus if the Cubs can go 4-3 in their seven remaining games, they’ll host the Wild Card series regardless of what the Padres do. If for any reason a tiebreaker is needed, it would work this way. The Cubs and Padres split their season series, so the tiebreaker between them is the record within the team’s division. The Padres are 29-20 vs. NL West teams with three games remaining (three vs. D-backs at home). The Cubs are 27-21 vs. NL Central teams with four games remaining (one vs. Reds on the road, three vs. Cardinals at home). If the teams are still tied after that, the next tiebreaker is the team’s record against other teams in their own league.
Cubs lineup:
Reds lineup:
Jameson Taillon, RHP vs. Andrew Abbott, LHP
Jameson Taillon has had his season interrupted twice by injuries, but when healthy he’s been really solid all year.
His last four starts have produced a 1.69 ERA and 0.984 WHIP, with just one home run allowed in 21.1 innings.
In a start vs. the Reds June 1 at Wrigley Field, Jamo allowed three hits and two runs. We’d take that this afternoon, I’d think.
Andrew Abbott has been one of the best pitchers in the league this year. Since Aug. 1, though, he’s been somewhat less than that — eight starts, 4.53 ERA, 1.238 WHIP, seven home runs in 47.2 innings.
That includes a start vs. the Cubs Aug. 6 at Wrigley Field, in which Cubs batters had seven hits and four runs off Abbott in 6.2 innings, including home runs by Seiya Suzuki and Dansby Swanson.
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