Cubs Takeaways: What we have learned as andew Abbott, opener of the Reds Win series

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Chicago – The Cubs entered Friday with the opportunity to win their 10th consecutive opening match in Wrigley Field.

The Reds of Cincinnati ran to an early advance, however, continued to nail races and hampered a late rally to eliminate all the hopes of this sequence, while they beat the 6-2 cubs when the series was opened on the Fronts.

Here are three take-out dishes from the Friday match while the Cubs (35-22) fell on the Reds (29-29):

Quick start

The Reds have the best first -round offense in baseball. Colin Rea And the cubs saw this in the first hand.

Cincinnati entered with a record of 46 points in the opening framework of the game, and TJ Friedl only needed three throws on Friday to deposit a solo home run for an advance of 1-0 Reds.

Three strikers later, the Reds had doubled this advantage. It is generally not an intimidating deficit for the flamboyant offensive of the Cubs, but against the left of the Reds Andrew Abbott (more on him a little), it turned out to be a substantial hole.

Cincinnati also made sure to widen the gap. Tyler Stephenson and Jake Fraley each added two -point circuits in the fourth and sixth, respectively.

The Reds feasted on Rea for the second consecutive outing, while their alignment hit 11 balls in play at 94.8 mph or harder, By statcast – 95 MPH is considered a hard blow. REA granted 12 points deserved on 17 strokes of sure during its last two departures, both against the Reds.

The right-handed 34-year-old cubs opened the season with an MPM of 0.96 in his first six games (18.2 innings), but he struck difficulties in May, displaying an MPM of 5.61 this month.

Abbott Elementary

It is difficult to keep the cubs offensive. But Andrew Abbott was one of the best starters in the NL this season – and he was at his best Friday.

The left -handed hit the cubs on seven laundry rounds, withdrawing eight and walking one in his fifth victory of the season. The cubs had only three bales with hard blows off Abbott – two flights from Nico Hoerner and Kyle Tucker, and the third single of Justin Turner.

The 25 -year -old man lowered his ERA to 1.51, which would rank third in baseball if he qualified. He opened the season on the 15 -day IL with a strain of the left rotator cuff, but he was extinguished for the Reds since he made his debut in season on April 12. Abbott no longer granted a deserved race in a single departure, when he abandoned four in four sleeves in Colorado for strikers.

Abbott hampered the Cubs for the second time in a row. Last week in Cincinnati, he granted only one race on six strokes In a 6-4 Reds victory against Rea.

The late rally is short

The Cubs offensive has been so good in recent times that – despite the domination of Abbott – there was a non -zero chance that they could set up a late return to Wrigley. The crowd of 36,019 estimated that in the eighth round after Abbott’s shot.

The bottom of the Cubs order struck three consecutive strokes, with the triple RBI of Michael Busch, the RBI of Michael Busch and the single RBI of Matt Shaw opening their score.

The head striker, Ian Happ, then walked to put the potential run on tie on the bridge with Kyle Tucker. But Tucker struck a double game 3-6-3 to kill the rally.

The next round, the Cubs have again given Wrigley’s faithful more optimism. Seiya Suzuki and Pete Crow-Armstrong had double to put the liaison potential again on the deck, but the Cubs failed to score.

This offense has repeatedly proven that they have never really emerged from a game – even when the opposing starter. The Cubs, however, will find it difficult to return a six -point deficit with only six withdrawals.