After starting a 453-foot race 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.
(back) the formula worked for us, that's for sure, "said Rizzo after following David Bote's circuit in two innings, with a big shot on his own to lift the Cubs to their 33rd greatest leader of pre-triumph. "(But) the best remains to come for our starting rotation."
Rizzo keeps faith despite the offense of having Tyler Chatwood bail out after his last control fiasco, Chatwood allowed four runs on five hits and six walks in four innings and two thirds, but his big problem was stepping on the top three hitters in the fifth before giving way to Brian Duensing, who allowed another march before Ahmed.
The acquisition of a major reinforcement is now gaining momentum with Tuesday at 3 pm the deadline for non-surrender transactions approach. source confirmed that the Cubs are one of the contenders at the left-wing All-Star Cole H Rangers amels
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 ½ 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. -time All-Star, is 7-6 with a 3.48 ERA in 16 playoff starts and was the World Series MVP in 2008 when he led the Phillies. Over the Rays, which were headed by Joe Maddon
"said Maddon," he has been involved in very big games against teams with which I've been involved, he did very well.
"He is a great competitor, he has good things, he is competitive and knows what he does. I have to classify him as a fairly skilled southpaw league launcher. "
The source pointed out that the Cubs were one of the remaining teams in the Hamels lotteries which took longer to complete.A financial hurdle would be the remaining $ 8.1 million on the Hamels contract for 2018, plus an option of $ 20 million / $ 6 million for 2019.
But the Cubs face Kris Bryant, who was scheduled to undergo an MRI after being placed on the 10-day wounded list due to 39, a recurring pain in the left shoulder, the value of Bote for them could become large enough not to include in a case for Hamels or another upgrade.
Brad Boxberger, Bote made a dive stop on the right grass with the bases loaded to steal David Peralta from one shot in the second.Bote has now been promoted five times by Triple-A Iowa and responded with an average batting .326 while skillfully completing the second and third
"I'm not on Twitter or anything like that for some of that reason," said Bote to be tied to commercial proposals. "I'm coming to play, I do not hear or see or do anything (about 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 earned his 600th and 601st RBI career
Rizzo maintained a record of .442 in his last 12 games from first place, and his homer scored a series of 26 games without one.
go out there and knock at home, "replied Rizzo sarcastically to a question from a persnickety radio reporter. "It's a good plan to have."
