Preview for the April
21st Game
Chicago Cubs (5-11)
at Milwaukee Brewers (8-8)
The Chicago Cubs will be looking to avoid a sweep in their
three game series against division rival Milwaukee Brewers. The Cubs will also
be looking to snap the Brew Crew’s 6 game winning streak as well. Scott Feldman
will be the starting pitcher for the Cubbies in today’s game. Feldman has
started off the season slowly and hasn’t even pitched 5 innings in either of
his starts. The reasons for Feldman’s struggles this year is that he has some
lower back pain and has been especially wild in his starts. Scott Feldman will
a have a tough task in today’s game because the Brewers lineup has been on fire
and hitting the cover off the ball in their recent series. If Feldman can
command his pitches and keeps his pitches low he could get the win for the
Cubs.
The probable starting pitcher for the Brewers is Wily
Peralta who is a LHP that has a record of 0-1 with an era of 6.19. However
Peralta’s best start of the season was on April 9th when he pitched
a quality start against the Cubbies. Peralta got the no-decision in the game by
going 6.2 innings, giving up 2 earned runs with 5 punch outs. The hard-throwing
Peralta just allowed 6 hits and 2 walks in the game.
The starting pitcher for the Brewers offers the Cubbies a huge
challenge because the Cubs are 0-5 this year when their opponent has a lefty on
the mound. David DeJesus and Nate Schierholtz should be out of the lineup
because of the starting LHP of the Brewers therefore Cubs newly acquired Julio
Borbon might get the start in center field. The Cubs hitters need to show that
they can hit off lefties as well as they hit off of right-handed pitchers and
the Cubs need to manufacture more runs if they want to be more competitive this
season.
My prediction for the game is that the Cubs won’t avoid a
sweep by the Brewers with a win by the Brew Crew with a score of 7 to 2. I strongly
believe that Feldman will have a difficult time again on the mound and because
the Cubs lineup is usually ineffective when there is a lefty on the mound for
their opponents. My predicted player of the game is Ryan Braun because he has
had a quiet year so far this season and is a Cub killer. I can see Braun going
2 for 4 with a walk and a homerun.
I will be posting my game analysis for April 20th’s
game as soon as I can watch the game from the mlb.tv archives since I didn’t
get the chance to watch it yesterday due to my cable tv provider.
No comments:
Post a Comment