Chicago Cubs vs. Arizona Diamondbacks preview, Friday 5/1, 1:20 CT
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Friday notes…
STREAKING: The Cubs have gained eight straight house video games, your complete final seven-game homestand and the final sport of the earlier one. The final time a Cubs crew gained eight straight at house was Sept. 12-30, 2017. That streak was snapped once they misplaced to the Reds3-1, on the ultimate day of the season, and all however certainly one of their starters had been lifted after one or two plate appearances. The final time any Cubs crew gained 9 straight house video games was Aug. 18-Sept. 2, 2017. The franchise file is eighteen, set in the course of the crew’s total crew file 21-game profitable streak in 1935 (the primary 18 of these 21 straight wins). (Courtesy BCB’s JohnW53)
FIRST SCORING: The Cubs are 7-0 once they have scored first at house. They are 12-5 in all video games by which they scored first. In 14 of the 17 video games, they did so within the first three innings: 4 within the first, seven within the second and three within the third. Last 12 months, the Cubs had been 33-8 at house once they scored first and 17-23 when they didn’t. They gained 15 straight once they scored first at house from May 5 by means of July 19. They had two nine-game profitable streaks once they scored first on the highway. (Courtesy BCB’s JohnW53)
GETTING ON BASE: The Cubs are first amongst all 30 groups in on-base proportion, at .353. The Diamondbacks are twenty seventh, at .308. The solely groups decrease are the Phillies.302; Giants, .293; and Mets.289. (Courtesy BCB’s JohnW53)
HIT PREVENTION: The Cubs are tied for fifth in fewest hits allowed per 9 innings, at 7.6. The Diamondbacks are tied with two groups for twenty fifth at 9.1. The solely groups worse are the Nationals, 9.2; Orioles9.3; and Phillies, 10.1. (Courtesy BCB’s JohnW53)
TODAY IN CUBS HISTORY: Andre Dawson and Hector Villanueva homered off future Cubs broadcaster Jim Deshaies as a part of a five-run first inning and the Cubs went on to defeat the Astros 11-8 at Wrigley Field. It occurred 35 years in the past at this time, Wednesday, May 1, 1991.
Cubs lineup:
Diamondbacks lineup:
Colin ReaRHP vs. Zac GallenRHP
Colin Rea was going alongside simply positive when the Dodgers torched him fairly good over the weekend.
That out of the way in which, Rea has been stable this 12 months (and was final 12 months, too). I do not suppose one unhealthy begin erases all the nice issues Rea has completed for the Cubs rotation.
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Rea began vs. Arizona April 18, 2025 at Wrigley Field and allowed one run in 4.2 innings with 5 strikeouts, in all probability on a pitch restrict (threw 69 good pitches). That was the loopy sport the place the D-backs scored 10 runs within the eighth however the Cubs got here again and gained anyway.
Ketel Marte is 4-for-6 with two homers off Rea, so it is likely to be good to carry him down at this time.
Remember when Bob Nightengale mentioned Zac Gallen was going to signal with the Cubs? According to this Awful Announcing articlethis is what occurred within the Gallen family after Nightengale made that social media publish:
“So I was sitting there at breakfast with my dad,” Gallen advised MLBFits. “A family friend of ours came over, and he’s like, ‘Oh nice, you’re going to Chicago,’ and I was like, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about.’ So there was a hectic kind of 20 minutes or so there. I was getting calls from family, and then from my now-wife, it was like ‘We’re going to Chicago?’ I’m like, ‘No, I would let you know if we’re going to Chicago.’”
Gallen and his spouse actually got married the weekend after that information broke (and un-broke), which solely amplifies how wild that report should have appeared for the time being.
So that should have been enjoyable!
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Anyway, as you clearly know, Gallen re-upped with the D-backs and has had a reasonably good 12 months to this point: 3.14 ERA, 1.360 WHIP in six begins. His Okay charge is down a bit, however in any other case he is displaying that final 12 months was an aberration in an in any other case positive profession.
The final time I confronted the Cubs, April 19, 2025 at Wrigley Fieldthey hit him fairly arduous (seven hits, six runs in six innings), together with house runs by Seiya Suzuki and Michael Busch.
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