Why is Craig Counsell managing the bullpen like the Cubs are in 1st place?

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What happened in the Cubs vs. Diamondbacks game that led to the 5‑4 loss?

Mark Grote 0:00

We welcome you into Rahimi and Grody on 1043 the score. It was just such a shot to the I don't know if the ego is it or just the delight that he felt for having thought that the father of a Bears player knew exactly who he was. It felt for him.

Vinny Rotino 0:18

Yes, but it's also objectively funny. It

Mark Grote 0:21

really is. If

Vinny Rotino 0:22

you know Adam Studzinski, like that's that's a brilliant turn of events and sometimes you gotta just laugh. We know studs.

Mark Grote 0:29

Right. And he was out there at Gurney Hyundai with us. I even asked him, you know, sometimes I don't ask, I just talk and I just say, but I did. I said, Adam, is it okay if I share this little story? Because again, he was in recovery at that moment and dealing with the trauma in the midst of it. But I can tell you for a fact that he's okay because he executively produced our Take the North episode yesterday, which is up and running right now, and he did a great job. Like he always does. Unlike Layla, what went down with the Chicago Cubs last night. Are you in recovery from that? Are you in remote?

Vinny Rotino 1:03

No, I had a sports walk when I was coming in and that's basically a walk where sports makes you mad, so you take a sports walk. Sometimes you just gotta get up, you gotta walk around when your team does something that you don't like or when you've seen something. And both of the teams made me do that yesterday. Uh I'm mad at I'm mad at both of you. Like my kids. All of my kids that I don't have. So instead I get to complain about bull pens. But here's the thing, is that Taking let's before we get to the socks at ten twenty five. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I know you won the game, but you're not out of the doghouse either. So when it comes to what we saw, here's my issue is that you were one out away from gaining a whole game in the standings.

Mark Grote 1:48

Four and a half it could have been. It's five and a half now.

Vinny Rotino 1:51

And it was 75 inside at Chase Field. They there were a lot of cutaways to the fact that it was 112 to start the game. That was the game time temperature. And then it got lower to about 105.

Why did Craig Counsell leave Daniel Palencia in the eighth inning despite the hit‑by‑pitch?

Vinny Rotino 2:02

And poor Daniel Palencia, who had just come back, and we know is is an emotionally attached person. He's not afraid to show who he is on the mound, is visibly upset after he hits Lawler and and turns his head and then Lawler's shaken up. Palencia hasn't been back, except for one game other than that, when he was off the injured list. And that was also a game in Seattle that ultimately ended up getting walked off, but that's not his fault. So He's sweating. You can see that he's visibly shaken up after that. And if it wasn't the sweating, and if it wasn't his facial expression, it was the way he was carrying himself in his body language. Anybody who's watched him pitch over the years would know that he was shaken up there.

Vinny Rotino 2:44

And I understand the concept of bringing up Palencia and wanting him to finish what was a fabulous start by Clay Holmes, by the way, which is now wasted. And then you have this opportunity with a four-run lead to take down the Diamondbacks, who are a formidable team even without Catel Marte right now. But then we see the whole thing just fall apart. You're one out away. And we saw how he lost command. We saw how he was shaken. Jacob Webb was already warming in the pen when that happened. At that point, just let Daniel sit down. He's getting he's getting his legs underneath him as much as anybody who's been injured on this team. You're lucky you have him, given the reports that we heard about Ben Brown and Justin Steele yesterday, which I still think are pretty offline.

Vinny Rotino 3:29

You know, we can only hope that they'd be available this season. Hope is the strategy with those two right now. So why keep him in there? Why not just go ahead and say, hey man, I know you got shaken up. Ended up getting A batter retired after that. So go ahead and take him out after that. You don't need to keep him in there. And then ultimately, what do we see? Webb comes on, and again, within a matter of days, he's walked off by the home team yet again. But they were one out away from picking up a whole game. And I think the frustrating part for me is