The Chicago Cubs didn’t let a series-opening loss to the lowly Kansas City Royals derail their weekend, delivering a sequence win led by Justin Steele and Kyle Hendricks.
After per week of interleague video games towards the Cubs and Colorado Rockies, the Sox will see loads of the American League West with the Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics coming to Guaranteed Rate Field.
Every Monday all through the season, Tribune baseball writers will present an replace on what occurred — and what’s forward for the Cubs and Sox.
Cubs not taking their schedule with no consideration
The Cubs took care of enterprise as they wanted to towards the second-worst staff in baseball over the weekend.
Coming off their sequence win versus the Kansas City Royals, the Cubs should proceed to safe sequence victories the remainder of the way in which, and the present stretch of their schedule offers ample alternatives. They start a seven-game street journey Monday in Detroit earlier than a four-game set in Pittsburgh that leads into back-to-back pivotal sequence towards the Milwaukee Brewers and the Cincinnati Reds.
However, supervisor David Ross reiterated a day-to-day method specializing in the duty at hand and avoiding any assumptions concerning the high quality of groups they face within the subsequent week.
“Last year in the second half after the trade deadline we had a really good record and did a lot of things so I don’t think we have a group to take anything for granted,” Ross mentioned. “We’ll continue to approach things like that.”
“I know record is one thing but we were also that team last year and made it harder on a lot of other teams that thought we were not very good.”
The Cubs went 39-31 within the second half of 2022, a efficiency that created encouraging momentum in what grew to become a busy free company offseason for the group. Ross continues to reiterate the identical course of because the common season winds down: Trying to get higher day-after-day. He believes that singular focus has helped breed consistency, a should for playoff contenders.
“We have the same meetings, we go over the same topics every single day,” Ross mentioned. “We go over the strengths and weaknesses of the opposite staff and the way we really feel like we’re going to stack up towards them and type a plan every sequence. That’s why we play this factor out, 162.
“When you’re part of winning teams, it doesn’t matter whether you’re trying to break a curse of 108 years or you’re going out and trying to trying to win the ballgame that day, you have to have your process to go out there and compete to the highest level every single day and that shouldn’t change. You adjust that to help yourself, but it doesn’t change because of the team on the other side.”
Special weekend for Jimmy and Peter Lambert
Chicago White Sox reliever Jimmy Lambert estimated the final time he and youthful brother Peter had been on the identical discipline was 2013.
“My senior year in high school,” Jimmy Lambert mentioned Friday at Coors Field. “He was a sophomore. It’s the only time we were ever on the same team.”
Peter Lambert began for the Colorado Rockies on Friday towards the Sox.
“It’s something we’ve thought about for a long time,” Jimmy Lambert mentioned. “We’ve by no means performed towards one another our total lives, to take action within the main leagues is type of loopy.
“He was two years younger but I looked up to him in a lot of ways, he made it to the big leagues first, he was drafted before me. I’d like to say he looks up to me but I look up to him. He’s shown me what’s possible in this game.”
Jimmy Lambert hoped for one thing like a 2-1 Sox win. It didn’t prove that manner because the Rockies thumped the Sox 14-1. Plenty of household 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 within the recreation. He pitched Saturday, permitting two runs on two hits in two innings of the 11-5 loss.
Jimmy Lambert mentioned that the 2 typically speak pitching.
“We’re super similar pitchers, similar people in general,” he mentioned. “He’s most likely my finest buddy. So we speak on a regular basis, whether or not it’s baseball or no matter.
“There’s times when he’s down and I’d like to think I help him out and there’s times when I’m down and he helps me out. Whether it’s mentally or physically or with mechanics.”
What we’re studying this morning
Week forward: Cubs
For the primary time for the reason that Cubs traded him to the New York Mets on July 30, 2021, shortstop Javier Báez is going through his previous staff when his former group performs a three-game sequence in Detroit beginning Monday.
It includes 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 throughout the offseason.
Báez, 30, struggled in his first yr with the Tigers, and people points have turn out to be extra pronounced this season. Báez is hitting .224 with a .264 on-base share, .328 slugging share and 63 OPS+ in 111 video games — regardless of producing his lowest strikeout fee (22.8%) of his profession.
- 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 forward: White Sox
Elvis Andrus homered on the primary pitch of Friday’s recreation towards the Rockies at Coors Field.
He scored once more within the first inning Saturday, swiping residence when Rockies pitcher Kyle Freeland tried a pickoff at first base.
Andrus had three hits Friday and two extra Saturday whereas shifting over from second base to shortstop with Tim Anderson serving his five-game suspension. Andrus was 0-for-3 on Sunday earlier than being ejected by residence plate umpire Clint Vondrak for arguing balls and strikes within the sixth. Andrus was within the dugout when he was tossed whereas Luis Robert Jr. was batting.
Friday’s residence run was the a hundredth of his profession.
“I’m very glad I could accomplish that,” Andrus mentioned Friday. “I love taking advantage of those first-pitch fastballs and not trying to do too much, especially in this ballpark. The ball flies very good.”
It’s been a season of milestones for Andrus. He collected his 2,000th profession hit on April 5 and reached 2,000 video games in his profession 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 Red 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 mixed to throw a 7-0 shutout towards the Dodgers.
Rick went 6 1/3 innings and Paul completed the shutout for the primary ever by two brothers.
Aug. 21, 2018: Michael Kopech makes his MLB debut for White Sox
The debut of the White Sox’s high pitching prospect was handled like a turning level within the rebuild. Kopech’s debut was eventful to make certain, although it ended reasonably awkwardly when he was denied an opportunity to return after a 52-minute rain delay.
“I wanted to go a little deeper into the game,” he mentioned after throwing two scoreless innings. “I didn’t realize my pitch count was as high as it was (52 pitches), but either way I got to experience 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 every time he obtained to 2 strikes on a Twins hitter. He completed with 4 strikeouts, together with the final one to Joe Mauer on the ultimate pitch of his night time.
“I didn’t expect that,” he mentioned of the ovations. “It made me feel like I was in a big-time game. And I guess it was a big-time game for me. It was awesome.”
Sox vice chairman of selling Brooks Boyer mentioned walk-up gross sales had been about 8,000 they usually lifted the attendance to 23,133. The Sox drew an additional 5,000 in walk-up gross sales for Yoan Moncada’s debut final yr.
Boyer noticed Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf earlier than the sport and facetiously requested “Any other prospects we can bring up?”
Aug. 22, 1982: The Cubs retire Ernie Banks’ No. 14 jersey.
Banks, whose Hall of Fame profession spanned from 1953-71, grew to become the primary to have his quantity 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 each Fergie Jenkins and Greg Maddux in 2009. Every staff retired Jackie Robinson’s No. 42 in 1997.
Known as “Mr. Cub,” Banks is the all-time franchise chief in video games performed (2,528), at-bats (9,421) and complete bases (4,706). He gained two MVP awards, made 14 All-Star groups and blasted 512 residence runs.
Aug. 24, 1905: Cubs beat the Phillies 2-1 in 20 innings behind the entire recreation pitching of Ed Reulbach.
Quotable
“I’m kind of at the point of my career that I’ve never been here before. I have, but I haven’t. It’s something that I’m wrestling with, trying to continue to keep trying to find that positive with a lot of negative things going around. So it’s kind of hard to find that positive. But I’m obsessed with continuing to keep getting better, a better player, a better person.” — White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson
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