After launching a 453-foot home run on Thursday to culminate a spectacular 7-6 win over the Diamondbacks in his 1,000th career game, Anthony Rizzo offered a promising prospect for the Cubs.
The formula worked for us, that's for sure, "said Rizzo after following David Bote's circuit in two runs, with a big shot on his own, to help the Cubs get up to speed. 33rd place in their league. behind the triumph. "(But) the best is yet to come for our starting rotation."
Rizzo keeps faith despite the offense of having bail out Tyler Chatwood after his last control fiasco. Chatwood allowed four runs on five hits with six goals in 4 innings and 2/3, but his big problem was to walk on the first three hitters in the fifth before giving way to Brian Duensing, who allowed another run before giving a big shot
Now, the acquisition of a major reinforcement looms with Tuesday 3 pm
A source confirmed that the Cubs are one of the contenders to the left quarter All-Star Cole Hamels Rangers.
Hamels, 34, has been very successful in the National League with the Phillies, for whom he went 114-90 with a 3.30 ERA in 9 and a half seasons. His last game with the Phillies was a non-hitter against the Cubs at Wrigley Field on July 25, 2015.
Since then, Hamels is 38-21 with a 3.90 ERA for the Rangers. -6 averaging 3.48 in the playoffs and he was the most valuable World Series player in 2008 when he led the Phillies over the Rays – with Cubs manager Joe Maddon at the helm. "He has played very big games against teams I've been involved with, he's done very well, he's an excellent competitor, he has good things, he's competitive, and he knows what he's doing." He did.
him as a very competent southpaw thrower. "
The source pointed out that the Cubs were one of the remaining teams in the Hamels lotteries that could take longer to complete. A financial hurdle would be the remaining $ 8.1 million on Hamels' contract for 2018, plus a $ 20 million / $ 6 million option for 2019.
But the Cubs face Kris Bryant, who was expected to to undergo an MRI after placed on the 10-day wounded list because of the recurrent pain in the left shoulder, the Bote value could be greater for them than to include in any what an agreement for Hamels or for another.
Before Escape Closer to Brad Boxberger, Bote made a dive stop on the right field grbad with the bases loaded to steal David Peralta from one shot into the second. Bote has now been promoted five times by Triple-A Iowa and has reacted with a batting average of .326 while skilfully completing the second and third goals.
"I'm not on Twitter or anything like that .. reason," said Bote to be tied to commercial proposals. "I'm coming to play. I do not hear or see or do anything (regarding a possible exchange). It's something I can not control, so I stay away from that. "
The Rizzo circuit marked his fourth career outing, he also had his 600th and 601st RBI career
and has maintained .442 in his last 12 games since the starting point, and his circuit recorded a series of 26 games without one.
"Rizzo replied sarcastically to a question posed by a radio reporter." It's a good plan to have. "
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