Gameday Open Thread / White Sox @ Cubs

The Cubs return to Mesa to take on their city rivals. Ted Lilly goes for the Cubs versus Javier Vazquez.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Sat, 03/22/2008 - 2:43pm
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Submitted by Cubster
on Sat, 03/22/2008 - 3:04pm

Godenot
Soriano
DLee
Ramirez
Fukudome
DeRosa
Soto
Pie
Lilly

Submitted by crunch
on Sat, 03/22/2008 - 4:09pm

jeff davanon cut...i'm a fan...

his sapped power (what little he had) is suffering, though.

Submitted by crunch
on Sat, 03/22/2008 - 4:16pm

pat and ron are in midseason form...chuckling and confusion about anything game related...the score, who's playing, and what girls in the stands look like ladybugs...

Submitted by crunch
on Sat, 03/22/2008 - 4:37pm

you can't even script this crap...

after talking about girls like some 14 year olds for 1/2 the inning pat proclaims it looks like vazquez will pitch the 7th inning because there's no one in the pen (nevermind it was the top 6th).

they cant get the score right, the players right, and now the inning...

Submitted by crunch
on Sat, 03/22/2008 - 5:08pm

leaving the mic on during the radio break showing why ron's loved...signing autos on request, saying 'you're welcome' to the thanks...no speeches, no bullcrap...just being one of the faces of the cubs in a proper way.

...comes back into the booth area asking "who's pitching?" to pat...

howry in top 8...and pat/ron are 1/2 assed funny playing the "attendance game" which im sure they'll talk about for the next 5-10 minutes.

Submitted by crunch
on Sat, 03/22/2008 - 6:23pm

4-3 wsox/cubs..bottom 6...soto lifts a high one short hopping the wall in CF. all 3 runs in the 6th.

tie game via pie on a low breaker single to RF...vasquez done...

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wood out to start top 7th -and- is supposed to pitch tommorow...looks like he's definitely got the inside track on the closer job if he can stay healthy/not-sore.

wood 1-2-3 inning, 2Ks and a popout to fuku.

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pie ends the bottom 8th swinging, missing for strike 3, and sending his bat flying outta his hand to the backstop on his follow through with 2 out and 2 on

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doh...hart gives up a 2 out opposite field homer off j.uribe (solo) in top 9th...5-4 wsox, top 9

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soriano...with the infield back, men on the corners, and no outs...well, he sure isn't showing bunt on any pitch and i hope its just a "spring mentality"...he gets his sacfly at the RF warning track...tie game (cedeno from 3rd), murton holding at 1st.

dlee walks moving murton to 2nd with 1 out...the hoff hits into a DP...9th over...they're gonna play into the 10th today

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eyre pitches the cubs out of a tie...wsox take a 6-5 lead off of an 1-out back-to-back double and single...following it up with a walk...piggy up in the pen, rothschild visiting eyre...a fan screaming "see you in iowa"...fun stuff, but he was left in only to give up an immediate ground rule double off of a kid for a 7-5 lead.

a K to fields and a p.ozuna getting a WEAK infield single on a 3-2 count for a 8-5 lead. i would say it was a tough break for eyre if not for 2 balls in the ozuna AB being wild out of the zone (one in the dirt and one high)...tapping comebacker to the mound finishes off the 10th...8-5 cws/chc

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fukudome leadoff basehit (though it might have been an out with a better 3rd baseman) on an under-the-glove smack...epat walks on 4 straight...blanco gets a basehit after dye loses the ball in the sun (that's a possible 2 outs and a man on 1st turned into 0 outs with the bases loaded).

pie gets a chance to play hero...infield ground out, force at home, 1 out

cedeno gets a chance to play hero...works a 3-2 count into a walk...run forced home...8-6 cws/chc, 1 out

murton gets a chance to play hero...dye loses ANOTHER ball in the sun (aka, out 3) and the cubs tie with 1 out and cedeno on 3rd/murton on 2nd.

mcgeehehehehehehehe gets a chance to play hero...and he Ks for out 2

fuld gets a chance to play hero...ground out to SS...and that's the game.

Submitted by crunch
on Sat, 03/22/2008 - 5:17pm

according to the AP...soriano back hitting 2nd, fuku 5th...

"I thought about it last night," Piniella said before Saturday's game against the Chicago White Sox. "I think right now with the way we're situated, Fukudome offers the best protection for Ramirez."

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/7943810/Lou-Pin...'-opening-lineup,-Kosuke-Fukudome-stays-in-fifth-spot

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