10/09: NLDS Game 1: Chicago Cubs at St. Louis Cardinals 5:30PM Lester vs. Lackey

[Chief Walking Stick]

National League Divisional Series
Game 1

Chicago Cubs	vs	St. Louis Cardinals
0		0

Friday, October 9th, 2015
5:30PM CDT

Busch Stadium, St. Louis, MO

TV: TBS
Radio: ESPN 1000

Series Information

Game	Results	Date	Time	TV
Game 1	Chicago @ St. Louis	10/9/15	5:30PM CDT	TBS
Game 2	Chicago @ St. Louis	10/10/15	6:30PM CDT	TBS
Game 3	Chicago vs St. Louis	10/12/15	TBA	TBS
*Game 4	Chicago vs St. Louis	10/13/15	TBA	TBS
*Game 5	Chicago @ St. Louis	10/15/15	TBA	TBS

*If Necessary

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Pitching Matchup

Jon Lester

John Lackey

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[Chief Walking Stick]

Looks like Lester vs. Lynn

 

[SilenceS]

Fify

 

[knoxville7]

Looks like Lester vs. Lynn

lynn huh? that surprises me a bit

 

[SilenceS]

lynn huh? that surprises me a bit

Its Lackey not Lynn

 

[nbafan23]

Go Cardinals.

 

[Bear Pride]

I'm not sure if you guys realize this, but the Cubs can win this series. Not so much the last couple years, but this year, they can win this shiznet!

 

[♠ B u c k e t s ♠]

 

[Chief Walking Stick]

My apologies... the "TBA" part of my thread was for the broadcasting Network. Guess adding the starting pitchers work too!

 

[SilenceS]

My apologies... the "TBA" part of my thread was for the broadcasting Network. Guess adding the starting pitchers work too!

Group effort! <3

 

[A.C. Milan]

glad that Grimson started the thread, in Italy we are very superstitious about theese things

 

[Parade_Rain]

I'm not sure if you guys realize this, but the Cubs can win this series. Not so much the last couple years, but this year, they can win this shiznet!

I think people realize this
Cubs lost season series 8-11, but second half against the Cards was 6-3. They can do this.

 

[wklink]

Cards were somthing like 15-14 in September and I don't think they won a game at the beginning of October. This is by definition the meaning of mediocre.

By no means do I think this will be a lark but the Cards peaked in June and the Cubs are peaking right now. I feared the Pirates a lot more than the Cards at this point. We threw everything at the Bucs and they still kept their WC lead on us even though it did get close at the end.

On 25 June the Cards were 25 games over .500 and had an 8 game lead on the Pirates adn 9.5 on the Cubs. They had just beaten the Cubs and looked unstoppable. The rest of the year they were 13 games over .500, good but not that impressive. The Cubs, on the other hand, went 25 games over .500 in the period after that loss. We gained 6.5 games during that period. The only team close to being that hot this year were the Pirates, and they just lost to us.

So lets see how this plays out. St. Louis is good, very good, but having the best record in baseball doesn't mean squat at this time of the year. St. Louis knows this, they have been the low man in the playoffs and own the WS. This isn't 2008 and this is a different Cubs team.

 

[Jester]

Cards were somthing like 15-14 in September and I don't think they won a game at the beginning of October. This is by definition the meaning of mediocre.

By no means do I think this will be a lark but the Cards peaked in June and the Cubs are peaking right now. I feared the Pirates a lot more than the Cards at this point. We threw everything at the Bucs and they still kept their WC lead on us even though it did get close at the end.

On 25 June the Cards were 25 games over .500 and had an 8 game lead on the Pirates adn 9.5 on the Cubs. They had just beaten the Cubs and looked unstoppable. The rest of the year they were 13 games over .500, good but not that impressive. The Cubs, on the other hand, went 25 games over .500 in the period after that loss. We gained 6.5 games during that period. The only team close to being that hot this year were the Pirates, and they just lost to us.

So lets see how this plays out. St. Louis is good, very good, but having the best record in baseball doesn't mean squat at this time of the year. St. Louis knows this, they have been the low man in the playoffs and own the WS. This isn't 2008 and this is a different Cubs team.

Cards mediocre hmmmm, ok. I look forward to a good series but the Cards can turn it on when they need to.

 

[wklink]

That's why I didn't say it would be a lark. And you didn't read my post did you. Read the whole thing. I said their record in September was mediocre. I also said that they are a good, very good team. Very good teams look mediocre when they are slumping and unstoppable when they are winning it all. The Cubs looked mediocre at the beginning of the season. They don't look that way right now.

What I did say was that the team that is hot at the right time tends to win it all. Right now the Cubs are the hottest team in baseball. We have won 9 straight and beat the team with the second best record in baseball. St. Louis is dangerous, but not overpowering. Can the Cards get hot? Sure, they can. They have before. But the Cubs have been playing the best baseball in the Majors and they haven't slowed down. Anything can happen in these things.

 

[GUSTER12345]

I think people realize this
Cubs lost season series 8-11, but second half against the Cards was 6-3. They can do this.

YES!!! Yes they can do this. They can go all the way!!

 

[DanTown]

Current Cubs stats vs Lackey past five years

Coghlan - 8 for 17 (1 2B), 1SO
Jackson - 5-16 (2 2B)
Rizzo - 1 for 12 (2HBP, 2SO)
Soler - 4 for 8 (3 2B, 1BB, 0SO)
Castro - 3 for 12
Ross - 0AB
Bryant - 2 for 9 (5SO)
Russell - 2 for 7 (2SO)
Baez - 0 for 8 (4SO)
LaStella - 2 for 3

Will Joe go to Coghlan at 2B to get Soler in there?

Fowler - CF
Schwarber - LF
Bryant - 3B
Rizzo - 1B
Castro - 2B OR Soler - RF
Coghlan - RF / 2B
Russell - SS
Ross - C
Lester - P

 

[HarryScary]

Let's hope we get more moments like this:

[video=youtube_share;wIchcpOr80M]https://youtu.be/wIchcpOr80M[/video]

 

[DJMoore_is_fat]

Cards about to run into a buzz saw. Too long a lay off and they are far from the team they were a little earlier in the season. Too many injuries. And we're rolling right now. I'll take Lester vs Lackey any day of the week.

Lackey's had a great career but the guy is like 37 years old and he doesn't want any of Fowler/Schwarber/Rizzo/Bryant.

Good Night, St. Louis. It won't be long before we choke you out like we did Pittsburgh.

 

[pseudonym]

I think this series goes five games. Cubs winning game five. I don't see us sweeping them, or them sweeping us. Going to be a very exciting, tough series. Love the dead Cardinal, my wife and I were laughing. Brutal, but funny.