Chicago Cubs vs. Colorado Rockies preview, Wednesday 6/10, 7:40 CT

Wednesday notes… 7 AND 21 ARE NOT LUCKY NUMBERS: The Cubs are 7-21 in their last 28 games. The only other National League team to go 7-21 this year was the Rockies, April 28-May 7. The Tigers have had nine overlapping 7-21 spans, April 23-June 3, and the Angels had four, April 15-May 22. The Angels

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Wednesday notes…

7 AND 21 ARE NOT LUCKY NUMBERS:
The Cubs are 7-21 in their last 28 games. The only other National League team to go 7-21 this year was the Rockies, April 28-May 7. The Tigers have had nine overlapping 7-21 spans, April 23-June 3, and the Angels had four, April 15-May 22. The Angels also had three 6-22 spans during that period. The Tigers were 6-22, May 1-31. (Courtesy BCB’s JohnW53)
RISPy BUSINESS: The Cubs were 0 for 8 last night with runners in scoring position. It was the 17th of their 67 games, slightly less than one quarter, in which they made no hits with RISP. They are 3-14 in those games, including seven straight losses. (Courtesy BCB’s JohnW53)
WALK THE WALK: Four Cubs batters walked last night for their fourth straight game with at least four. They had not had four in a row with four or more walks since May 6-9, the last of 13 straight. (Courtesy BCB’s JohnW53)
TODAY IN CUBS HISTORY: Rick Monday homered in each of the first two innings and the Cubs defeated the Reds 9-7 at Wrigley Field to maintain a six-game lead in the NL East. It happened 53 years ago today, Sunday, June 10, 1973.

As was the case yesterday, the Cubs lineup was not available at posting time. Not sure what’s going on with this, but please check BCB social media for the Cubs lineup.

Rockies lineup:

Shōta Imanaga, LHP vs. Michael Lorenzen, RHP

A tale of two Imanagas.

First seven starts: 2.40 ERA, 0.852 WHIP, three HR allowed in 41.1 innings
Last six starts: 7.53 ERA, 1.356 WHIP, 14 (!) HR allowed in 34.2 innings

Now you explain that to me. He doesn’t seem injured. How could that much good

pitching completely fall apart?

If you know, please tell Tommy Hottovy and Craig Counsell.

Imanaga’s only career start vs. the Rockies was his very first MLB start, April 1, 2024 at Wrigley Field. He threw six shutout innings and struck out nine. Again, a lot of those guys aren’t on the team anymore — hey, even Kris Bryant played for Colorado in that game!

So, Imanaga’s never pitched at Coors Field before. Good luck, Shōta.

And if you think Imanaga’s year is bad, oh my gosh, look at Michael Lorenzen’s numbers.

Lorenzen was once a decent back-of-the-rotation guy, but this year has been just terrible. His ERA has been under 6 — once (at 5.97), after he threw seven good innings against the Mets April 24. Since then: seven starts. 9.84 ERA, 2.125 WHIP, seven home runs in 32 innings.

Seriously, if the Cubs can’t hit this guy…

Ian Happ has homered twice off Lorenzen. Do that again, Ian.

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