Let's face it guys, Wednesday afternoon was definitely the low point of the season for the Chicago Cubs, who got swept by the hilariously bad San Diego Padres. That was right after getting swept by the Los Angeles Dodgers too. For the first time since Joe Maddon became the Cubs manager, the team was two games below the .500 mark. Then, they came back home to start a series with the St. Louis Cardinals and it was delicious.
The series began with Dexter Fowler hitting a leadoff home run off of John Lackey and the series ended with Fowler striking out, completing the sweep for the Cubs. Jason Heyward was fabulous, hitting rockets everywhere (although he's still getting unbelievably bad luck) and as always playing gold glove defense. Kyle Schwarber hit what seemed like a season-turning grand slam on Saturday and Ian Happ had his first career multi-home run game on Sunday. Oh, and Jon Lester picked off a runner at first base. What made Lester's pickoff even better? Tim fucking McCarver.
This really was art.
So, for some reason base runners have been taking ridiculous leads off first base when Lester's pitching because of his inability to throw the ball to any base. The funny thing is that every time it happens base runners end up just stopping or actually leaning back to first base, negating their huge leads. It's never made any sense because most of the time the runners don't actually try to steal and when they do Willson Contreras throws them out, especially this season.
Anyway. What's even funnier? Tim McCarver's "analysis" right before and right after Lester picked off Tommy Pham during Saturday's game.
Wait for the end, it's gold.
BONUS CLIP!
Sooooooooooo delicious.
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