Cubs get right and take series from Angels
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What were the highlights of the Cubs' win over the Angels?
Boyd has set down 15 of 16, and he strikes out Darneau. Make it 16 of the last 17 men set down. As Boyd, who struggled on opening day, suffering the loss to Washington, has really responded to this challenge today. Swing and a miss, strike three. Another strikeout for Boyd. That's his 10th of the day. Teodosio is gone. And the batter is Zach Netto.
Very nice day for Matthew Boyd. That call, of course, you know, Pat Hughes. And Ron Coomer, Zach Zaidman on our Cubs radio network. Matthew Boyd, 10 strikeouts to his name against the Angels. He did earn the win, five and two-thirds innings. Gave up only one earned run. He had two walks. and two runs to his name, but only one of them earned, like I mentioned. Then we saw just three more pitchers. Bing, bang, boom, closed the door, and the Cubs win 6-2, taking 2-3 from the Angels. It was a get-right game, not just for Matthew Boyd, but for the Cubs, Marshall, to be able to take 2-3 from a team for the first time this season.
It's big because it allows them to end that homestand 3-3, which isn't great, but it's certainly not bad. It's a solid start to the season when you take into account now that the starting pitching in that series was absolutely phenomenal. Matt Boyd gives up the one earned run. That's the only earned run that the Cubs starters gave up. Over 16 and a third, they strike out 18 batters. And here's the most encouraging thing. Last year, if you go back and look at Matthew Boyd's starts, as good as he was, 12-1 at Wrigley, a phenomenal one loss after a Cubs loss, he never reached the bar that he's now reached twice in these two games, which is strikes swinging. He had 18 strikes swinging in his opener, in the season opener for the Cubs.
He had 16 in this one. He looks like a guy whose stuff is great. It's just a matter of can he stay in control.
That's it. And the fastball command, as we had seen, especially in that first game, there's something that may be able to be said about the adjustment coming back from the World Baseball Classic. Different type of game, different type of hitters. You have way more time. between pitches there than you do in the major leagues although we didn't see as much of a discrepancy this time around so point is get right with your next start because you didn't do what you wanted to do in your first one and that gave me a vote of confidence for him i i don't know how much he needs one But for him to be able to write the ship in that way and get the swing and miss stuff that he wanted, he's always quick to admit when he's got something he needs to work on and work on something he did.
Facing the Angels hitters also, I think, helped. And not just that, but the Cubs on the other side offensively help out with 10 hits and get to Yusei Kikuchi really quickly.
How did Matthew Boyd perform in this game?
So that was also, I think, part of the help for the Cubs. They started scoring in that third inning.
I love for Matthew Boyd the fact that, and I know, the Angels, to your point, nobody struck out more in baseball as a team than the Angels last season, right? But to get 10 strikeouts and all of them to be on swinging strikes, that says something about how effective your fastball changeup game is. Seven of those were on fastballs. He had a couple on changeup and one on a curve. I think for the Cubs, though, I was more relieved, and I know this is going to sound maybe a little off the mark, but I was more relieved with what their offense was doing in this game, given what we had seen in terrible weather for hitters.
Well, and keep in mind, we still had questions about, we definitely had this issue last year, about the discussion surrounding lefty aces. that the Cubs had faced. And so because of that, you know, they get the chance to face the lefty finally in Yusei Kikuchi. And even though this is not the world beater that, say, Mackenzie Gore was last year or Andrew Abbott, for example, and you'd argue whether or not he's the ace, obviously, for the Reds. But point being, they had struggled. They had struggled against lefties, dominant ones at that, and at least to have that shot in the arm against a lefty to face one finally and be able to produce as well as they did, five-run third inning, that's a good sign.
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