The Chicago Cubs didn’t let a series-opening loss to the lowly Kansas Metropolis Royals derail their weekend, delivering a sequence win led by Justin Steele and Kyle Hendricks.
After per week of interleague video video games in the direction of the Cubs and Colorado Rockies, the Sox will see a great deal of the American League West with the Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics coming to Assured Price Subject.
Each Monday all via the season, Tribune baseball writers will current an substitute on what occurred — and what’s ahead for the Cubs and Sox.
Cubs not taking their schedule without any consideration
The Cubs took care of enterprise as they needed to in the direction of the second-worst workers in baseball over the weekend.
Coming off their sequence win versus the Kansas Metropolis Royals, the Cubs ought to proceed to secure sequence victories the rest of the way in which wherein, and the current stretch of their schedule gives ample alternate options. They begin a seven-game avenue journey Monday in Detroit sooner than a four-game set in Pittsburgh that leads into back-to-back pivotal sequence in the direction of the Milwaukee Brewers and the Cincinnati Reds.
Nevertheless, supervisor David Ross reiterated a day-to-day technique specializing within the responsibility at hand and avoiding any assumptions regarding the top quality of teams they face throughout the subsequent week.
“Final 12 months within the second half after the commerce deadline we had a extremely good report and did lots of issues so I don’t suppose we’ve got a bunch to take something as a right,” Ross talked about. “We’ll proceed to strategy issues like that.”
“I do know report is one factor however we have been additionally that group final 12 months and made it more durable on lots of different groups that thought we weren’t superb.”
The Cubs went 39-31 throughout the second half of 2022, a effectivity that created encouraging momentum in what grew to turn out to be a busy free firm offseason for the group. Ross continues to reiterate the equivalent course of as a result of the frequent season winds down: Attempting to get increased day-after-day. He believes that singular focus has helped breed consistency, a ought to for playoff contenders.
“We’ve the identical conferences, we go over the identical matters each single day,” Ross talked about. “We go over the strengths and weaknesses of the alternative workers and the way in which we actually really feel like we’re going to stack up in the direction of them and sort a plan each sequence. That’s why we play this issue out, 162.
“Whenever you’re a part of successful groups, it doesn’t matter whether or not you’re attempting to interrupt a curse of 108 years otherwise you’re going out and attempting to attempting to win the ballgame that day, it’s important to have your course of to go on the market and compete to the very best degree each single day and that shouldn’t change. You regulate that to assist your self, nevertheless it doesn’t change due to the group on the opposite facet.”
Particular weekend for Jimmy and Peter Lambert
Chicago White Sox reliever Jimmy Lambert estimated the ultimate time he and youthful brother Peter had been on the equivalent self-discipline was 2013.
“My senior 12 months in highschool,” Jimmy Lambert talked about Friday at Coors Subject. “He was a sophomore. It’s the one time we have been ever on the identical group.”
Peter Lambert started for the Colorado Rockies on Friday in the direction of the Sox.
“It’s one thing we’ve thought of for a very long time,” Jimmy Lambert talked about. “We’ve on no account carried out in the direction of each other our whole lives, to take motion inside the principle leagues is kind of crazy.
“He was two years youthful however I seemed as much as him in lots of methods, he made it to the massive leagues first, he was drafted earlier than me. I’d wish to say he seems to be as much as me however I look as much as him. He’s proven me what’s potential on this sport.”
Jimmy Lambert hoped for one factor like a 2-1 Sox win. It didn’t show that method as a result of the Rockies thumped the Sox 14-1. Loads of family and buddies had been in attendance.
Jimmy, 28, watched as Peter, 26, allowed one run on 4 hits with 5 strikeouts and one stroll in seven innings. Jimmy Lambertdid not get throughout the recreation. He pitched Saturday, allowing two runs on two hits in two innings of the 11-5 loss.
Jimmy Lambert talked about that the two sometimes communicate pitching.
“We’re tremendous comparable pitchers, comparable folks usually,” he talked about. “He’s most certainly my most interesting buddy. So we communicate frequently, whether or not or not it’s baseball or irrespective of.
“There’s instances when he’s down and I’d wish to suppose I assist him out and there’s instances after I’m down and he helps me out. Whether or not it’s mentally or bodily or with mechanics.”
What we’re learning this morning
Week ahead: Cubs
For the first time given that Cubs traded him to the New York Mets on July 30, 2021, shortstop Javier Báez goes via his earlier workers when his former group performs a three-game sequence in Detroit starting Monday.
It features a matchup between the shortstop the Cubs moved on from (Báez) to the one they made a long-term dedication to (Dansby Swanson). The Tigers inked Báez to a six-year, $140 million contract in December whereas the Cubs gave Swanson $177 million over seven years all through the offseason.
Báez, 30, struggled in his first yr with the Tigers, and folks factors have grow to be further pronounced this season. Báez is hitting .224 with a .264 on-base share, .328 slugging share and 63 OPS+ in 111 video video games — no matter producing his lowest strikeout payment (22.8%) of his career.
- Monday: at Tigers, 5:40 p.m. Marquee
- Tuesday: at Tigers, 5:40 p.m. Marquee
- Wednesday: at Tigers, 12:10 p.m. Marquee
- Thursday: at Pirates, 6:05 p.m. Marquee
- Friday: at Pirates, 6:05 p.m. Marquee
- Saturday: at Pirates, 6:15 p.m. Fox
- Sunday: at Pirates, 12:35 p.m. Marquee
Week ahead: White Sox
Elvis Andrus homered on the first pitch of Friday’s recreation in the direction of the Rockies at Coors Subject.
He scored as soon as extra throughout the first inning Saturday, swiping residence when Rockies pitcher Kyle Freeland tried a pickoff at first base.
Andrus had three hits Friday and two further Saturday whereas shifting over from second base to shortstop with Tim Anderson serving his five-game suspension. Andrus was 0-for-3 on Sunday sooner than being ejected by residence plate umpire Clint Vondrak for arguing balls and strikes throughout the sixth. Andrus was throughout the dugout when he was tossed whereas Luis Robert Jr. was batting.
Friday’s residence run was the a hundredth of his career.
“I’m very glad I might accomplish that,” Andrus talked about Friday. “I like benefiting from these first-pitch fastballs and never attempting to do an excessive amount of, particularly on this ballpark. The ball flies superb.”
It’s been a season of milestones for Andrus. He collected his 2,000th career hit on April 5 and reached 2,000 video video games in his career on June 21.
Anderson is eligible to return from the suspension Wednesday.
- Monday: vs. Mariners, 7:10 p.m., NBCSCH
- Tuesday: vs. Mariners, 7:10 p.m., NBCSCH
- Wednesday: vs. Mariners, 1:10 p.m., NBCSCH
- Thursday: vs. Athletics, 7:10 p.m., NBCSCH
- Friday: vs. Athletics, 6:10 p.m., NBCSCH
- Saturday: vs. Athletics, 6:10 p.m., NBCSCH
- Sunday: vs. Athletics, 1:10 p.m., NBCSCH
This week in Chicago baseball
Aug. 21, 1926: White Sox’s Ted Lyons pitched a no-hitter over the Purple Sox at Fenway Park.
The 6-0 victory was achieved in 1 hour, 7 minutes.
Aug. 21, 1975: Pitching brothers Rick and Paul Reuschel of the Cubs blended to throw a 7-0 shutout in the direction of the Dodgers.
Rick went 6 1/3 innings and Paul accomplished the shutout for the first ever by two brothers.
Aug. 21, 2018: Michael Kopech makes his MLB debut for White Sox
The debut of the White Sox’s excessive pitching prospect was dealt with like a turning degree throughout the rebuild. Kopech’s debut was eventful to make sure, though it ended fairly awkwardly when he was denied a possibility to return after a 52-minute rain delay.
“I needed to go a bit of deeper into the sport,” he talked about after throwing two scoreless innings. “I didn’t notice my pitch depend was as excessive because it was (52 pitches), however both manner I acquired to expertise the debut, and it was a dream come true.”
Kopech’s two scoreless innings had been electrical, with the group of 23,133 on its ft and cheering each time he obtained to 2 strikes on a Twins hitter. He accomplished with 4 strikeouts, along with the ultimate one to Joe Mauer on the final word pitch of his night time time.
“I didn’t count on that,” he talked about of the ovations. “It made me really feel like I used to be in a big-time sport. And I suppose it was a big-time sport for me. It was superior.”
Sox vice chairman of promoting Brooks Boyer talked about walk-up product sales had been about 8,000 they often lifted the attendance to 23,133. The Sox drew a further 5,000 in walk-up product sales for Yoan Moncada’s debut ultimate yr.
Boyer observed Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf sooner than the game and facetiously requested “Every other prospects we are able to convey up?”
Aug. 22, 1982: The Cubs retire Ernie Banks’ No. 14 jersey.
Banks, whose Corridor of Fame career spanned from 1953-71, grew to turn out to be the first to have his amount retired by the Cubs.
Billy Williams (No. 26) adopted in 1987, then Ron Santo (No. 10, in 2003) and Ryne Sandberg (No. 23, in 2005). The Cubs retired the No. 31 worn by every Fergie Jenkins and Greg Maddux in 2009. Each workers retired Jackie Robinson’s No. 42 in 1997.
Often called “Mr. Cub,” Banks is the all-time franchise chief in video video games carried out (2,528), at-bats (9,421) and full bases (4,706). He gained two MVP awards, made 14 All-Star teams and blasted 512 residence runs.
Aug. 24, 1905: Cubs beat the Phillies 2-1 in 20 innings behind the complete recreation pitching of Ed Reulbach.
Quotable
“I’m sort of on the level of my profession that I’ve by no means been right here earlier than. I’ve, however I haven’t. It’s one thing that I’m wrestling with, attempting to proceed to maintain looking for that constructive with lots of detrimental issues going round. So it’s sort of onerous to seek out that constructive. However I’m obsessive about persevering with to maintain getting higher, a greater participant, a greater particular person.” — White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson
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