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Chapter 1: What happened during the Cubs' series against the Giants?
The views and opinions of Layla Rahimi, Marshall Harris, and Mark Grody should not be taken too seriously. Especially when they give advice. Do not take Marshall's analogies literally. Especially when it comes to Russell Dorsey. The sports thoughts of Rahimi, Harris, and Grody may change at any time. It's just sports. Okay, thanks, bye. Rahimi Harrison-Grody, 10-2 on 104.3 The Score.
Chicago Cubs baseball is on the air from Wrigley Field in Chicago. It's time for the first of a three-game weekend series between the Chicago Cubs and the San Francisco Giants.
Prepare to fast forward. Preparing to fast forward. Fast forward. Fast forwarding, sir.
Bounce toward third. That's going to be a fair ball. Gloved by Chapman. Long throw and a good throw to get him. And that ends the ball game. The Giants have beaten the Cubs 18-3. Let's just do two or three high fives and then forget it ever happened.
Gorgeous afternoon for baseball as we get set for Giants and Cubs. And the Cubs looking to bounce back from an 18-3 loss yesterday. Live ball right field.
Suzuki back turning and it's gone.
Oh, brother. And it's 1-0 Giants. Hubs are down by a run. He drives one in the air to right.
Going back is Houli.
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Chapter 2: What are the current struggles of the Chicago Cubs?
That ball's got a chance. Gone. PCA with a home run to right. Ball game tied 1-1. High fly ball.
Right field. That's back. We're tied.
2-2.
And it's the PCA show here at Wrigley. And the 2-2.
Line drive, base hit, right field. Downing third and holding. The ball gets away. And coming in to score is Swanson. Cubs win the ball game.
Cubs win. Wrigley Field, the iconic ballpark at the corner of Clark and Addison with the ivy-covered walls. First planted in 1937. Fans coming in to see baseball under the lights at the ballpark. As that is lined to left center field. That's down for a base hit. And the Giants will take the lead.
Crow Armstrong spins it in quickly. But Jung-Hoo Lee adds to his MLB longest hit streak. And it's 1-0 Giants. And the 2-2. Swing and a ground ball. Base hit center field. Rounding third, Carson Kelly.
He'll score. Pete Crow Armstrong goes to third. Ball game tied 1-1.
Moises Ballesteros delivers.
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Chapter 3: How does the Cubs' performance impact their playoff chances?
A swing and a pop fly, and the ball game is going to be over. Adamas, the shortstop, makes the catch. And the Giants, in 10 innings, have beaten the Cubs 2-1.
Leila Rahimi, Marshall Harris, Mark Grody. Midday's 10 a.m. to 2 on Chicago Sports Radio 104.3, The Score.
Times are tough right now for the Northside baseball team as we welcome you into Rahimi Harris and Grody on 104.3 The Score. It's all very difficult. Everything the Chicago Cubs are doing right now, Marshall Harris, is max effort. Even the wins are really hard and stressful right now for the Cubs. They have just stalled, man.
The Chicago Cubs are seven and a half games back of the Milwaukee Brewers as you are clicking on your smart device or radio to listen to this very show right now. The Cubs, Marshall, as we sit here,
are not a playoff team they are like i said seven and a half out in the division they are on the outside looking in at the playoff picture right there and i just say that to punctuate the fact that the cubs are playing lousy baseball right now
Somehow, the Cubs are two games over .500. Somehow. Even though they started a stretch in the month of June facing 22 straight games against opponents under .500. And so far during that stretch, they are 2-4. And those are the home games. Those are the home games. Now they have to go hit the road. And I would say, oh, but it's the Rockies and Giants. Big deal. Big deal.
But they just got beat two out of three out of a Giants team that had the worst record in the National League along with the Rockies at the beginning of this last week. And now the Rockies, normally I'd be like, this is perfect. They get to face the Rockies, who do now have the worst record in the National League.
The problem is the Rockies still score runs, and I'm not sure the Cubs pitching in the state that it's in, because I don't know if you saw, Ben Brown just pitched. He's not pitching in the next series for the Cubs. I just don't know that I can confidently say they're going to win the series against the Rockies.
I want you to think about that compared to a team that had multiple 10-game winning streaks earlier this year.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of recent injuries for the Cubs?
so more people can commiserate. Do you see what's happening? You guys should be paying more attention to what we're going through here on a daily basis, and that is dealing with a Cubs team that when they've got... Should I go through some of these? In the fourth inning, Ian Happ had a one-out triple. Cubs didn't score. In the eighth inning, the Cubs had first and third. Nobody out.
They didn't score. That's where Bregman, he did line into a double play, and Alcantara was caught off at third base. Bad base running. I get it. In the fifth, Ballesteros with a leadoff double. Ninth inning, first and second with one out. Carson Kelly with a little... pop out in the infield, and I think PCA made it out, but he gets excused.
It just keeps happening, and when you're in these ruts, again, I know there's a way out. I know there's a path out of this, but I don't know where it is right now.
I was going to say, if you know where the path is, please...
Enlighten us. There's got to be a path. Maybe that's what I'm saying. Maybe this is just a leap of faith. I know you've got winning in you. I just don't know where it is right now.
And you have to start to ask yourself, because this is the question I have, Mark, is... If this is who the Cubs are going to be when they face the worst teams on their schedule, when they have the friendliest bump. I mean, it's such a heaven-sent idea that the teams with the worst records in the National League, both of them, you get to face them just 12 straight games straight up.
12 straight games. And I was like, well, they need to at least go 8-4. And they're off to a one and two start to that. Oh, my goodness. Again, the A series, I'm like, that's a team fighting for its playoff lives. I get it. But to drop two out of three to the Giants and this last game. It just goes to show you that they don't have multiple ways to win games. And that's part of the problem.
Like last night, Jamison Tyone faces one batter in the second inning and goes down with a hamstring injury. And I'm thinking, oh, well, here we go again. But then Javier Assad comes in and does just the work that needed to be done and We have an award here on Rahimi Harrison-Grody.
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Chapter 5: What is the significance of PCA's performance for the Cubs?
It's the Mark Grody He Deserved Better Award. I would say that Javier's side deserved better because Javier's side went out and pitched in relief on a whim, on a whim, Grody, threw six and a third out of the bullpen and gave up one hit, striking out five, one walk. That's insane to just come in, you know, he gets as much time as he needs to warm up because Tyone leaves with an injury.
But to throw up a line like that, and remember, Tyone, it's not like he gave up a home run or anything. He just gave up a run. You have to win a game in which your emergency pitcher comes in and gets you to the point where you're in the eighth inning before you, or excuse me, the seventh inning before he comes out.
You've got to win that game. I would love to know what you were thinking, Marshall, what you, driving in your car, listening to the score right now, you at home working out, listening to the score right now, when you are watching, listening, however you were consuming the game, hopefully right here on the score, when Jameis and TyāI happened to be listening on the radioā
um I was too I was like oh my god Jameson Tyone comes and walks the first guy and then I am hearing Pat and Ron describe what is happening on the mound and I'm hearing them saying that Jameson Tyone is like squatting trying to get comfortable and get a feel for that then I hear Coombe going in that knowing voice that Coombe has because of his experiences with baseball and understanding injuries he was like there's no way he's going back in and
It was early in the injury.
And so I was like you. I was at work, but on my dinner breaks, I'm walking to get food, and I hear him say, oh, there's no way they're leaving him in the game. No way. Seriously? Because you can't see it, so you're just listening.
Yeah. And you're like, wait, what? It's that bad? It's a joke at this point, right? You're like, you've got to be kidding me. That's what you're doing right now if you're listening. You threw your arms. You've got to be kidding me. Another one? I don't even remember Justin Steele. That's so long ago. Yeah, exactly. Cade who? Cade who? That seems like we've got problems everywhere right now.
And the pitchers that are supposed to be pitching well, and we'll talk about this, Shota and Cabrera, not looking particularly good. But why don't we take this quick opportunity right now, since we're talking about Tyone. Let's play what Jameson Tyone said. He describes what he felt before he went out in the first inning.
After the 2-2 pitch there and that at bat to Chapman... And then kind of between pitches, I was trying to weigh whether it was worth throwing another pitch or not, and then threw the 3-2 pitch and felt it a little more. So, yeah, just nothing I've ever felt, and fortunately just kind of one pitch did it.
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Chapter 6: How do fans perceive the management decisions regarding the Cubs?
Like, I'm walking around and moving around. Obviously, it'll be an IL stent, but, you know, hopefully we can keep the arm conditioned and moving around. Limit it from being too long. But, yeah, I mean, I don't think it's surgical or anything like that. But I'm getting an MRI tomorrow, and we'll know more.
I mean, that's good news. I mean, so we're going to assume he's going to miss at least two starts. The only part that concerned me about what Jamison Tyone said, and we're going to have to wait a while to know exactly what's going on, regardless of what Jamison Tyone is saying, is he did say that it's nothing that I've ever felt before. So this is unprecedented for him in his life.
So the mystery around that concerns me just a bit, but really the whole thing has just become a joke when we're talking about the injuries that the Cubs have had.
I was actually encouraged by the way he was talking about the injury not being ā he basically was saying he could walk around and do stuff. It wasn't like one of these ā you know, when you see people injured, injured ā where they're having trouble walking because they fill it with everything they do. I understand he's a pitcher. He's got to be able to go through the motion of pitching.
But maybe it's just to rest him. Hey, he's headed to the aisle. That's not anything we haven't heard before. Who at this point has not been to the aisle if you're a starting pitcher for the Cubs? They're doing their mandatory service on the 15-day injured list at this point. And so on the one hand, you have the pitching injuries. On the other hand, Mark...
When you think about, as you mentioned, the opportunities that have gone by for this Cubs team after the game. After an 0-for-5 day. How long have I been begging Craig Council to move Alex Bergman down the line? How long have I been begging for it? The most days. The man went 0-for-5. And not only did he go 0-for-5, but after this game, he's now officially left 140 men on base.
That's the most in baseball. No one has had more at-bats than his 75 at-bats with runners in scoring position. He's hitting 173. He's... When I tell you the slugging percentage, this is a guy who you're letting bat 3, 4, 5 any given day. He's slugging 187 with runners in scoring position. That is atrocious.
That's as bad as it looks. I shouldn't be acting like I'm surprised here. I watch the games. Yeah, you watch the games.
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Chapter 7: What legacy did Stacey King leave in Chicago sports?
I see it. I saw it again last night. Like I said, he hit the ball hard in that spot. I have seen him hitting into more tough luck lately. There are signs that he can hit, but he has failed way too many times in those scenarios. As a matter of fact, why don't we listen? Because actually Bregman, let's play this right now, because Bregman was...
If nothing else, I think Cubs fans will like the responsibility that Alex Bregman is taking for his badness.
I've been terrible, and I need to play better. Offensively, it's been awful. I've failed many times in this game. I've struggled before. I've started slow before. I've started fast before. And when you're struggling, there's only one way forward, and that's straight head-on through it. You get after it in your work, and it comes down to executing in the game. And I haven't executed all year.
Runners in scoring position, I've been god-awful. So I need to be better. And if I'm better over the last... However many games, we probably win the majority of them. So I've had plenty of opportunities with guys in scoring position. Need to be better. Playing simple.
You know, I couldn't have said that better if I was a talk show host because he pretty much hit on all the things that we're saying right now. So, I mean, at least there's that piece. I know nobody really cares right now because they just want to see this guy produce.
But everything I understand about Alex Bregman is that he certainly is going to wear this, and he hates what's going on more than anybody, obviously.
He's the guy who just got paid, Grody. When you're the guy that just got paid, and especially ā what he represented because of the Kyle Tucker situation last year and him going to the Dodgers and taking all that money and the Cubs got their guy in Bregman. When he's not producing, it just becomes that more magnified. And really, even when they were winning, he wasn't producing.
The man has not hit a home run with people on base.
It's amazing. I mean, the statistics, everything you went through, it is absolutely jarring. We are going to talk a lot about Stacey King today. We will start those conversations at 1045. Marshall and I will celebrate the life of Stacey King while mourning the loss, and we'll talk to Mark Schoenowski at 11 o'clock. Jimmy Deshaies, who was on that ā
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Chapter 8: How did Stacey King connect with the Chicago basketball community?
Huge broadcast last night. Some people hated it. Some people loved it. I happened to be okay with it. We'll talk more about that. Jim Deshaies will be on at 1 o'clock. Coming up next, though, we're going to continue the Cubs talk and where the struggling Cubs go from here.
And let's talk a little bit about just how wild and different this series was against San Francisco, what happened after we walked out of here on Friday. Yeah. Not good things. It was a wild three-game series that we must talk about. And I've seen you guys blinking. They're blinking, man. And that means the callers. They're jumping. Like, Cubs fans, you got something to say?
Cubs fans, you got something to say? Let's hear from you. We're open. 312-644-6767 is the number. I see you guys. You got something to say. 312-644-6767. It's Rahimi, Harris, and Grody on 104.3 The Score.
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And now the next offering drilled in the air. Deep left field. This is going to leave the yard. A long home run from Matt Chapman. He now has eight runs batted in in the game, and that's got to be close to a career high for him. He had a grand slam, a sack fly, and now a three-run homer. and he's up to 31 RBIs for the year. My God, that was a nightmare that day.
Welcome back into Rahimi Harrison-Grody on the score. Pat Hughes right here on 670 to score. Every once in a while, I like to throw in a 670 to score here, too. But that game on Friday, San Francisco beats the Cubs 18-3. The Giants hit seven home runs, and this was after...
the triumphant 7-6 win over the A's from the day before where it's supposed to be the, now you're on the right track, let's get you going, and along comes an 18-3 win for San Francisco over the Cubs. By the way, that is the day, by the way, that my mother decided to suspend viewing of
of all cubs games for the next week and while she was at it she said i'm sorry but if you guys are going to talk about that stadium all that i i can't take any more stadium talk i'm going to turn you right off so we'll have to make sure that we warn my mom in advance but she has suspended the cubs interviewing and taking in a game did you take her seriously when she said it Yes. Oh, yeah.
No, my mom's being dead serious. So on the good side. She's not like me. She doesn't have jokes.
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