Ian Happ is confident the Cubs offense will get better with runners on base
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What insights does Ian Happ provide about the Cubs' recent win?
The talent that's here and the talent that is continuing to develop here. We obviously have some mainstay guys like Ian Happ.
Ian Happ, Cubs all-star outfielder. And I've seen a lot of guys play the outfield, but I think he's the best left fielder that we've ever seen in a Cub uniform. And I've been here 31 years.
When all is said and done, he's going to be one of those guys that Cub fans are going to look back and say, man, he was... he's a really good player good solid big league player gold glove award winner half swings drills one deep in the air to left forget about it this one's long gone halfway up the bleachers ian hap makes it 5-1 cubs blasting his 16th home run of the year a solo shot to straight left host of the compound podcast see a little clip of me finishing with two hands maybe hitting a homer 500 feet i want to freak you out but i've been doing it a little bit in practice
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Ian Happ is a big part of the Rahimi Harris and Grody show appearing here most weeks on 104.3 The Score. So we're happy to have Ian Happ, especially after last night's ninth walk-off win of the season for the Chicago Cubs. Cubs 5, Colorado 4, a simple walk. by Matt Shaw with the bases loaded was the money run in a game in which lots and lots of things happened. It was his own little odyssey. And, yes, Ian Happ, the gold glove outfielder and co-host of the Compound podcast, joining us on Rahimi Harris and Grody like he does. Ian, if you were doing an entire episode of that game last night on the Compound, how do you start? What's the headline from that game?
Oh. Oh, good question. I think the headlines probably showed it with a great start. And then Pete's cycle can't be ignored. That was pretty fantastic. Just resilience from the group there, though. Obviously, we had opportunities to put up runs and didn't drive any across. And so just to stay with it and have that ninth inning was pretty impressive.
On the ninth inning, real quick on that, because in the ninth, you guys go in there, it's 4-3. You're down a run. You come up with a runner on first. I can't imagine the highs and the lows that you were feeling in that bat and what looked like it was a grounder to the pitcher. Pitcher throws it to second, looking to get the force. They botch the play. What were you thinking and feeling in that moment, in that at-bat?
Yeah, a little bit frustrated with that bat for myself and then ecstatic that we ended up with first and third and nobody out. So great bat by Seah, working that count and getting on base before me. And then, yeah, just in that situation, you move the ball and something good happens. But that's kind of the most important thing there.
Ian, to win in this manner, and obviously it was a frustrating time. You guys left so many men on base until the ninth inning, and you get it done rather quickly and efficiently with guys, as you said, working counts. Can you continue to win in this manner? I mean, is this sustainable? You guys have three hits with runners in scoring position over the last four games, but you found a way to win three games.
I mean, yeah, I think getting guys on base the way we have and giving ourselves opportunities is sustainable. I don't think that this... extended period of not driving in runs is going to sustain. I don't think that's something that's going to continue. Just the law of averages, guys. It has to turn. I'm telling you. It's not possible for us to go an entire season with kind of the lack of runners scoring position success that we've had. There's such a thing called regression to the mean, and that's coming and coming in a big way.
That's so interesting, Ian, because we kind of say or hope for or think the same thing in our own way here. We always talk about it. These guys are going to get back to the... You know, the back of their baseball cards. And we're, as talk show hosts, talking about you guys. We get very exasperated sometimes.
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