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| Cubs at Padres open game thread |
| 2008-06-05 02:06:00 |
B-REF PREVIEW | GAMEDAY | WEATHER | ACB CHAT ROOM
Greg Maddux vs. Cubs hitters: .245/.271/.358 in 204 at-bats
Ted Lilly vs. Padres hitters: .264/.313/.473 in 91 at-bats
Time: 9:05, WGN
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| 9 straight |
| 2008-06-04 06:42:00 |
This is fun. Us Cubs fans aren’t so used to a lot of winning from our favorite team, but we’re being treated well this year. The Cubs remain the winningest team in baseball as they beat the Padres 9-6 for their 9th straight victory.
Marquis sucked, but got the win. Kevin Hart, just called up from Iowa to throw strikes, sucked and threw a lot of balls. Neal Cotts, called up recently to get guys out, gave up an RBI hit to the only guy he faced. Howry came in and got the Cubs out of the jam and Woody got the save.
Soriano hit a very long 3-run home run that turned out to be the difference. Let’s get 10 tomorrow against Maddux. Time for Lilly to start pitching a little better, isn’t it?
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| Kevin Hart re-called from Iowa |
| 2008-06-04 00:16:00 |
13 pitchers it is. Not sure who has been optioned to Iowa, but I’d guess it’s Micah Hoffpauir unless the Cubs are sticking with 12 pitchers in which case Wuertz may have an option remaining though I’m unsure about that. Mike Fontenot would have to be placed on waivers in order to be optioned and it’s unlikely a left-handed hitting 2B with decent on-base skills would go unclaimed.
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| Cubs win 8th straight |
| 2008-06-03 06:10:00 |
Too late for any kind of recap here. Wood threw 6 pitches to get the final 2 outs and the save. 4 of them were fastballs and all 4 were at 97 mph. Cubs won 7-6.
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| PERFECTION |
| 2008-06-01 22:20:00 |
The Cubs just completed a 4-game sweep of the Rockies by beating them 5-3 today. It was the 2nd sweep on the home stand that saw them go 7-0. On their previous visit home, they went 8-2.
Sean Gallagher got his 3rd win. He pitched well. Not great, but not bad either. He struck out a career high 8 and walked none though he did hit 2 batters, both of them were check swings as well. His stuff was moving really well today, which would explain the check swings. He allowed 3 runs in 5.2 innings (Wuertz allowed the 3rd and final run to score when he relieved Gallagher with a runner on 2nd and 2 outs).
The team is now 36-21 and heads west to play San Diego and Los Angeles. The Cubs will try to extend their 7-game winning streak tomorrow night.
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| Zambrano throwing more strikes |
| 2008-06-01 00:56:00 |
Len Kasper mentioned the other day that Carlos Zambrano was throwing more strikes, which I thought was rather common sense since he was walking fewer, but I wanted to take a look anyway. Sure enough, he’s throwing more strikes than he has in any full season (2001 not included here, 2002 not a full season).
2002: 58.8%
2003: 61.0%
2004: 62.1%
2005: 62.3%
2006: 59.9%
2007: 61.3%
2008: 62.7%
That’s it. Back to the regularly schedule programming.
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| Rockies at Cubs open game thread |
| 2008-05-31 17:04:00 |
B-REF PREVIEW | GAMEDAY | WEATHER | ACB CHAT ROOM
Glendon Rusch vs. Cubs hitters: .283/.311/.408 in 152 at-bats
Ryan Demster vs. Rockies hitters: .194/.260/.328 in 67 at-bats
Time: 12:05, CSN Chicago (probably only local), MLB.TV
74 and sunny, wind blowing from left field to right field at 17 mph.
Derrek Lee and Mark DeRosa have hit Rusch well and surprisingly, Dempster has the 4th most at-bats against Rusch of any Cubs hitter (just 1-12). Dempster has had trouble with Helton, but other than that, he’s been very good against the Rockies hitters, though in only 67 at-bats.
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| Rich HIll started for Iowa today |
| 2008-05-31 05:52:00 |
It didn’t go well. 3 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 3 BB, 5 K, 1 HR
Safe to say Hill will have more chances in Iowa to figure it out because this won’t be acceptable in Lou’s eyes
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| Cubs have best record in all of baseball |
| 2008-05-30 04:43:00 |
The Cubs beat the Rockies 8-4 tonight and with the Rays loss, the Cubs take sole possession of best record in baseball--an honor that means it just feels good to have the best record in baseball. To be rooting for a team that is arguably the best in baseball. That’s not something us Cubs fans have gotten to feel for a very, very long time. I’ll take it.
Their win tonight was like so many other wins this season. After taking a 2-0 lead, marquis allowed a run in the 4th and then the Cubs got it right back. It was 3-1 as the 6th inning began and Marquis allowed back to back singles and then a walk with nobody out. He got a much needed strikeout and Lou brought in Neal Cotts. Cotts looked pretty good, but Taveras got a little bloop single just off the glove of Lee that tied it up. Wuertz came in a batter later and got out of the inning.
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| Cubs recall Cotts, option Ascanio |
| 2008-05-29 22:15:00 |
Neal Cotts has been very good in AAA so far this season (2.00 ERA in 27 inning, 33 K) and since the Cubs only have one lefty in the bullpen, Cotts is getting another chance. Jose Ascanio was optioned to Iowa to make room for Cotts. The Cubs acquired Cotts prior to last season for David Aardsma and Carlos Vasquez. Cotts was pretty bad with the Cubs to begin the season and was sent down to Iowa and we havne’t seen him since. He put his best season together (dominating season) for the 2005 White Sox. Here are Cotts’ season stats at Iowa, courtesy of CCD:
2 w
0 l
19 games
27.0 ip
23 h
7 r
6 er
10 bb
33 k
6 hlds
3 svs
2.00 era
1.22 whip
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