Cardinals 3, Cubs 0: Lost in the fog

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Any clip it would similar to halt raining successful the Chicago country would beryllium good with me.

Saturday’s 3-0 Cubs nonaccomplishment to the Cardinals was delayed 59 minutes earlier it began by yet different dense rainfall that drenched the northbound broadside of Chicago, past delayed different 15 minutes aft the extremity of the sixth inning erstwhile it became intolerable for players to spot the shot owed to dense fog that blew successful disconnected Lake Michigan aft the rainfall ended.

What period is this, anyway? April? November?

This is what it looked similar from my perch successful the near tract bleachers (Bluesky link):

But they couldn’t spot overmuch from the property box, either:

And neither could the folks watching astatine home:

The fog yet lifted astir 10:20 p.m. and the teams finished the game. There’s not overmuch to speech astir present from a Cubs constituent of view, though.

Shōta Imanaga’s archetypal transportation of the crippled was sent into the left-field bleachers by JJ Wetherholt. After that Imanaga settled down and threw reasonably well, though helium walked three, and 1 of those walks led to the Cardinals’ 2nd tally successful the 3rd inning. Imanaga did onslaught retired 8 [VIDEO].

Here’s much connected Imanaga’s evening [VIDEO].

Tyler Ferguson, Ryan Rolison, Trent Thornton and Caleb Thielbar attempted to support things close. The 4 relievers combined for 4.1 innings successful which they allowed 4 hits and 1 run, with 5 strikeouts.

It didn’t substance due to the fact that the Cubs discourtesy was moribund. They had 5 hits and 4 walks disconnected 5 Cardinals pitchers, but got conscionable 3 runners past archetypal base. The code seemed to beryllium acceptable erstwhile Pete Crow-Armstrong, who walked to pb disconnected the archetypal for the Cubs, was thrown retired trying to steal. In the third, Michael Conforto led disconnected with a azygous and 2 outs aboriginal precocious to 2nd erstwhile PCA walked again. A unit retired ended that inning. Conforto singled again successful the 5th and 2 outs aboriginal went to 2nd erstwhile PCA was deed by a pitch. That inning ended connected a foul popup.

In the eighth, PCA led disconnected with a single. That’s 1 bully happening — PCA reached basal successful each 4 of his sheet appearances. Alex Bregman followed with a walk. Two on, cipher out! All that did was effect successful an 0-for-3 with RISP, due to the fact that the inning ended connected a crushed retired and 2 strikeouts.

PCA’s play OBP has reached .380, astir 100 points higher than the .287 helium posted past year. The .380 fig ranks 10th successful the National League (and is lone .007 down Freddie Freeman, who is sixth).

Any clip the Cubs discourtesy would similar to aftermath up again would beryllium good by me. After the 23-run outburst Wednesday, the Cubs person scored 1 tally full successful their past 18 innings.

Now, astir that fog. It was truthful atrocious that the ABS situation strategy failed to enactment [VIDEO].

That was successful the bottommost of the sixth. When that inning ended, play was halted [VIDEO].

Fifteen minutes aboriginal play resumed, but it wasn’t immoderate antithetic for the Cubs, who stranded 8 runners.

Fog information from BCB’s JohnW53:

On May 20, 1960, astatine Milwaukee, the Cubs played their archetypal abandoned crippled that was scoreless aft much than 2 innings. It remains their lone 0-0 unofficial crippled halted successful the 5th inning — and their lone abandoned crippled of immoderate magnitude that was stopped due to the fact that of fog.

“The Cubs and Braves tried valiantly Friday nighttime to triumph a moving conflict with the elements,” said the Tribune.
“Maybe they are gaining connected the fickle upwind man, for they did play 4 and a fractional scoreless innings during a weird 3 and one-half hr program.

“After a airy rainfall caused a 1 hour, 28 infinitesimal hold successful the archetypal inning, a fog blew successful from Lake Michigan, and the athletes sparred their mode into the 5th inning with 2 slick pitchers, Warren Spahn and Don Cardwell, refusing to output a run.

“But Plate Umpire Frank Dascoli, yet convinced erstwhile helium could hardly marque retired the outfielders and Shag Crawford, umpiring astatine 2nd base, that baseballs nary longer could beryllium detected successful flight, called different halt.

“After a fractional hr wait, the crippled was proclaimed nary contest.”

And facts astir this crippled from John:

This was the 181st crippled since 1901 successful which the Cubs were unopen retired by the Cardinals. It was the 2,409th betwixt the teams.

Only 75 of the shutouts person been astatine Wrigley Field, including conscionable 3 of the past 13. The erstwhile 2 were by 3-0 connected June 14, 2024, and by 1-0 connected Aug. 22, 2022.
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The Cubs had failed to people successful lone 12 of 226 erstwhile games connected the Fourth of July, 3 of them vs. the Cardinals. They had been blanked successful 7 of 136 games astatine home, doubly by the Cards.

The crushed for the ample fig of games connected July 4 is, of course, that for galore decades vacation doubleheaders were common.

Also, yes of people I cognize it doesn’t substance what TV transmission the crippled is on, but the Cubs person not done good successful games carried connected assorted nationalist channels this year:

Marquee Sports Network: 47-33
Fox: 1-2
NBC/Peacock: 0-2
ESPN/ABC: 0-1
Apple TV+: 1-2

The Cubs mislaid nary crushed to the Brewers successful the NL Central race, arsenic Milwaukee mislaid astatine Arizona. The Cubs inactive way the Brewers by six games, but are present conscionable fractional a crippled up of the Cardinals.

The Cubs volition effort to salvage the last crippled of this bid Sunday day astatine Wrigley Field. Javier Assad volition commencement for the Cubs and Matthew Liberatore goes for St. Louis. Game clip is 1:30 p.m. CT (yes, 1:30, not 1:20) and TV sum volition beryllium streaming connected Peacock (full nationalist broadcast, nary blackouts). Today’s crippled preview volition station astatine 12 noon CT.

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