Game of the Week: April 12: CHC @ MIL

[Commissioner Erick]

Chicago Cubs (6-3) @ Milwaukee Brewers (3-6)


CHC: Tillmam Corriga (1-1, 5.59)
MIL: Brock Straub (0-1, 14.73)


The Chicago Cubs and Milwaukee Brewers square off today for the start of their second series of the year. Chicago comes in rocking, with a 6-3 record and the best offense in the National League—each stat bolstered by a pair of extra inning wins in Pittsburgh that saw Chicago’s offense break out after Pittsburgh’s bullpen surrendered to fatigue. However, Chicago did take two of three versus Milwaukee last week, scoring nine and seven runs in their two wins. Milwaukee’s offense disintegrated on the road last week as the team took a single game of a six game trip against their closest NL Central rivals, scoring 10 runs total. They’ll look to rebound in what should be a tight NL Central race this year.


Questions for the GMs:


For Jon Richardson, your bullpen has to be exhausted after a 14-inning affair. How critical is it that Tillmam Corriga give you some depth today?

Isaiah High has crushed the ball to begin the year, but has a knee bruise. Will he be in the lineup today or will he get some rest?

Your team is first in offense. How much of that do you feel is real, and how much is a product of playing two thirds of your games against the Pirates, and half of them in extra innings?

For Luke Grimmelbein, Will Dulihanty is due of the IL today. Will he be in the lineup, or will you give him a rehab assignment?

last week hinted that your offense wasn’t good enough to hang with your closest competitors. What can you do to squeeze more offense out of your team?

Luis Garcia is off to a tough start with your team, while Luis V. Garcia is off to a great start with Texas. Have you considered giving Luis Garcia a middle initial to boost his performance?


TRIVIA: Which Puerto Rican pitcher has the most career PBA strikeouts

[brewersgm]

Mar 22, 2024 8:48:27 GMT -5 Commissioner Erick said:

For Luke Grimmelbein, Will Dulihanty is due of the IL today. Will he be in the lineup, or will you give him a rehab assignment?

last week hinted that your offense wasn’t good enough to hang with your closest competitors. What can you do to squeeze more offense out of your team?

Luis Garcia is off to a tough start with your team, while Luis V. Garcia is off to a great start with Texas. Have you considered giving Luis Garcia a middle initial to boost his performance?

1. Will will have a rehab assignment. We'd really love his bat back in our lineup but he got back late from the WBC and wasn't able to get into many spring training games before injuring his neck. This assignment will serve as an extended spring training for him and a trip down to the Springs usually gets a guy's bat back where we want it.

2. Having two of our best hitters back would help a lot. Nick Rollins and Will Dulihanty got injured in the last week of spring which means we haven't played a single inning with our fully healthy lineup yet. Nick has had his struggles but not having Dulihanty setting the table at the top of the lineup has been rough. For now he needs to rehab, so we've pushed Steve Eckroat into the starting lineup to try and get a little more juice in the meantime and add some speed at the top of the order.

3. I think Luis just needs a little time to shake the Royals out of him and he should improve. If not maybe we'll have to give him the middle initial of V as well. 

[jonathanrich88]

For Jon Richardson, your bullpen has to be exhausted after a 14-inning affair. How critical is it that Tillmam Corriga give you some depth today?

Hoping for a quality start. Just added a fresh Hoover, plus we have fully rested arms in Medina and Yoshida. 

Isaiah High has crushed the ball to begin the year, but has a knee bruise. Will he be in the lineup today or will he get some rest?

He'll play through it.

Your team is first in offense. How much of that do you feel is real, and how much is a product of playing two thirds of your games against the Pirates, and half of them in extra innings?

We scored 19 runs in the last Brewers series, so hopefully a little real. But a string of success is usually balanced out by complete failure. (In the game of course. Or maybe life. I don't know)

[Commissioner Erick]

Cubs 5 - Brewers 3


WP: T. Corriga (2-1)
LP: M. Arnold (1-1)


Chicago starter Tillmam Corriga pitched well against the Milwaukee Brewers at Miller Park. The right-hander led his team to a win, 5-3. The winning pitcher was Corriga, now 2-1. He tossed 6.1 innings of 3-hit ball, while walking 3 and fanning 8. Hunter Ruth recorded the save for Chicago, his 1st of the season.

Chicago relied on the bat of Erik Benoit to get the win. The first baseman ripped a solo home run in the top of the sixth inning to put the Cubs ahead, 4-3. For the game, Benoit had 1 double and 1 home run in 3 at-bats.

"We'll hit the hot tub in good spirits tonight," said Benoit.

Chicago goes to 7-3 with the win.


Questions for the GMs:


For Jon Richardson, Francisco Lindor committed his third error of the year. How have you felt his transition to Second Base has gone?

David Janes loaded the bases in the ninth, but one of the runners reached on an error. Did you agree with pulling him for Hunter Ruth?

Corriga only allowed three hits, though he issued three walks. How do you assess his performance?

For Luke Grimmelbein, miserable showing from your offense. How can you turn things around and get your offense to score some runs?

You played Rudy James at Second Base. He's been struggling to hit in Center Field, do you feel like the move to Second Base makes your offense better or worse?

Hawkeye pitched 6 innings, whiffed nine, and didn't walk a batter. He also allowed four extra base hits and four runs. How would you sum up his game?


TRIVIA: Who has the most single-season Saves in Chicago Cubs history?

[brewersgm]

Mar 25, 2024 12:17:26 GMT -5 Commissioner Erick said:

For Luke Grimmelbein, miserable showing from your offense. How can you turn things around and get your offense to score some runs?

You played Rudy James at Second Base. He's been struggling to hit in Center Field, do you feel like the move to Second Base makes your offense better or worse?

Hawkeye pitched 6 innings, whiffed nine, and didn't walk a batter. He also allowed four extra base hits and four runs. How would you sum up his game?

1. We need someone besides Perches, Fortune, and Rivera to step up. Getting Dulihanty back to set the table at the top of the lineup will be huge, and adding Eckroat in as our primary CFer should help as well.

2. Rudy is a good super utility guy who can give almost anyone on the roster a day off when needed, today that was Grant Stein. Rudy isn't really on the team for his bat, so if he's in the lineup the offense is probably a little worse for the day, but with Hawkeye we were hoping it was enough.

3. Three of the extra base hits came in 2 strike counts, which is unfortunate but not surprising. Mike always trusts his stuff and isn't afraid to attack the zone in those counts, which leads to a lot of strikeouts because of how good his stuff is. However if the opponent guesses right they can jump on him sometimes.

[Commissioner Erick]

TRIVIA 1: Zigmo correctly guessed Jose Berrios

TRIVIA 2: Luke correctly guessed Zack Britton

[jonathanrich88]

For Jon Richardson, Francisco Lindor committed his third error of the year. How have you felt his transition to Second Base has gone?

Bad. He really can't cut it defensively anymore, will DH and backup moving forward.

David Janes loaded the bases in the ninth, but one of the runners reached on an error. Did you agree with pulling him for Hunter Ruth?

Janes has always been a roller coaster. It worked, so sure, I agree.

Corriga only allowed three hits, though he issued three walks. How do you assess his performance?

Struck out 8 as well, I'll take a start like that from him every time.