“Cubs Set to Shock Phillies in High-Stakes Sunday Night Baseball Showdown”

We’ve reached Sunday Night Baseball. Every year, it seems like baseball at least tries to have some relevant teams on the schedule for their one prominent prime time game of the week. Baseball is typically one of the sports that you don’t tend to watch unless it has your favorite player or team involved, so it makes sense that they won’t schedule a Marlins vs. Rockies game here. Instead of garbage like that, we get the Phillies taking on the Cubs. 

I’ve been very complimentary of the Phillies when I’ve written about them for a few years now. I’m not a huge fan of anyone on the team other than Kyle Schwarber who will always have a spot in my heart – I mean any dude that can miss an entire season, then come back for the World Series and actually produce is an absolute monster. However, the team really needs to figure some things out. We are now about 15-20% into the season, and the Phillies are just average. The team isn’t really missing anyone, they just aren’t playing very well. They are hitting .251 with a .340 OBP and a .378 slugging which is a little low. Their pitching hasn’t been terrible, nor has it been great. One guy that would help make the turnaround for the club is today’s starter, Aaron Nola. Nola has struggled quite a bit this season. Nola is 0-5 with a 6.43 ERA and 1.61 WHIP. He has allowed four or more earned runs in three of his five starts and has surrendered six homers this season. As you can tell by his record, the Phillies have lost every start he has made. Philadelphia hasn’t supplied him with a ton of runs in any game either. Cubs hitters are batting .247 against him in a large sample size. 

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