5 On It & what's the Bears' ceiling and floor? (Hour 3)
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What topics are covered in the '5 On It' segment?
It's time for five on it. Rahimi Harrison-Rowdy. Bring you five topics on their minds today.
I got five on it.
Number one. On a scale of 1 to 10 on the Impress Me Meter, trademark, where would you rate Seiya Suzuki walking it off to give the Cubs a 3-2 win over the Padres last night?
Man, that is an 8.5 on the Impress Me Meter because as I was saying before, Seiya Suzuki and Madison Miller have not gone together well. Seiya was 0 for 4 with four strikeouts against Mason Miller because, well, the rest of the world is. He's not easy to hit. And you know how I felt about this, Rae. I was on the phone with you when I saw Adrian Morihan come in. That's right. Scary moment. Oh, no, this is over. It's Morihan. He throws 100. Then it's Adam. Then it's Miller. Then my hopes are dashed. Wrong. My hopes were not dashed. Well, they were, but Seiya Suzuki brought them back up. That was a well-hit ball. I don't know how it stayed in the ballpark. Well done. Seiya Suzuki, very impressive.
Mason Miller is very impressive. That man leads the league in both games finished and saves on the season. Terrifying man. He has a 17 point. I want to really say this very slowly. He has a 17.1 strikeouts per nine. 17.1. That means he averages almost two Ks per inning.
Straight up. That's Tom.
And so that's why it wasn't a bad sin. Dansby Swanson gone down. See if he can get something going. Because who knew that Seiya Suzuki was going to break that strikeout streak that he had started with Mason Miller. On the scale, though, this is a 10 out of 10. Perfect score. To end the game against Mason Miller like that? How often do players get to do that against Mason Miller? Pretty good. I'm going to split the difference between the two of yous. I'm going to go with a nine. I'm going to give it a nine. Because the Cubs, the truth about this game is, if you really look at the game, it wasn't a great game for the Cubs. They left a bunch of men on base. A lot of first and second and nobody out. A lot of bases loaded, nobody out situations in this game.
Even that ninth inning. While I'm with you, Marshall, I would have sent Dansby Swanson too. I was okay.
Not me.
I know. I know. And there's an argument to be made on your side as well. Just the math. The whole thing, that hit by Seiya Suzuki was a bailout. It was a bailout for the entire game, I felt, for what happened in the ninth inning. It made everybody look good. It made what the bullpen did look like real. Theobar and Thornton and Hollowell and that whole crew. So I give Seiya Suzuki a nine for making everything okay at the end of the game. Yay. Thank you.
Number two.
Here's question number two. In the sixth inning of Sunday's Cubs-Brewers finale, Alex Bregman hit a weak ground ball to the shortstop and proceeded to run down the first baseline with minimal effort. Bregman was asked to address the play prior to Monday's game against the Padres.
There was a moment that went viral yesterday on that ball you hit. Do you regret maybe not running a little bit harder knowing that now that you've gobbled it?
Yes. And I've also... had 10 soft tissue injuries running down the first baseline specifically. So it's kind of some give and take. But at the same time, yeah, I obviously wish I would have beat the throw.
It's Cubs third baseman Alex Bregman. Are you buying Bregman's response to not respecting the 90 feet to first base? Here's why I'm not buying his response.
Everything he said might be the truth and what he believes. But the initial question was, do you regret? His answer was yes. He also threw in the old and. And the and gave us more insight into why he didn't run it out, except for it doesn't really make sense because he stopped, he started, he stopped, and then he started again. And so if you're really concerned about the soft tissue injury in that situation, wouldn't you have just... Kept it cool? Why did you start again? I'm not following the logic that he's laying out there based on the fact that he started to run, slowed down, and then started back up again. It's like he realized midway that, oh, I probably should try to beat this out.
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