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Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Ben Brown
Kyle Hendricks
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Hector Neris 
Daniel Palencia
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Keegan Thompson
* Jordan Wicks

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Dansby Swanson

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Michael Arias, P 
Alexander Canario, OF 
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Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
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Luis Vazquez, INF 
Hayden Wesneski, P 

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Patrick Wisdom, INF 

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Jameson Taillon, P 

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Caleb Kilian, P 

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Game 60 Thread / Cubs @ Padres (3 of 3)

Submitted by Rob G. on

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SP *Ted Lilly
 SP
Greg Maddux
  5-4, 5.54, 61 K, 21 BB, 65 IP
3-4, 3.69, 38 K, 12 BB, 70.2 IP
       
LF
 Alfonso Soriano CF
 Scott Hairston
SS
 Ryan Theriot
 2B
 Edgar Gonzalez
1B
 Derrek Lee RF
 *Brian Giles
3B
Aramis Ramirez 1B
*Adrian Gonzalez
RF
 *Kosuke Fukudome 3B
 Kevin Kouzmanoff
CF
 *Jim Edmonds SS
 Khalil Greene
C
 Geovany Soto LF
 Justin Huber
2B
 Mark DeRosa
 C
 Michael Barrett
P
 *Ted Lilly P
 Greg Maddux

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Cubs go for their tenth (10th!) win a row, a feat they haven't done since 2001 when they strung together 12 wins in a row. It would also be their third straight series sweep. Oh, it's fun to be a Cubs fan these days.

On the mound, it's Ted Lilly still searching for his 2007 form. Things started looking up for him in May, that is until he met a 20 mph wind flying out of Wrigley last Friday. A wind the Cubs offsense used to pull off one of those miracle wins that it seems every good baseball team has at least once a season.


They'll have to go through Greg Maddux to get that win though, and the Maddog has enjoyed the spacious comforts of Petco Park to this point; sporting a 1.84 ERA at home, compared to a 5.01 ERA on the road. Let's say I'm less than shocked to discover that Maddux ended up on a team that curtailed the home run tendencies that he started showing late in his career.

Maddux versus the number one offense in baseball, should be fun!

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Gameday Open Thread

Comments

Submitted by Jeff_Pico on Wed, 06/04/2008 - 06:38 pm

Tonight's game is all on Ted Lilly. I am beyond confident that the Cubs can push at least 3 or 4 across on Maddux. Lilly needs to pitch at least 6 solid innings against the extremely weak San Diego offense.

Submitted by Cubster on Wed, 06/04/2008 - 06:14 pm

Lilly bringing nothing to the first 3 hitters...Might be a rehash of his last outing against the Rockies. He was bad that day too. Speaking of dark clouds... StL rained out in DC, might be a doubleheader tomorrow although it's supposed to rain more there tomorrow.

Submitted by Mitterwald on Wed, 06/04/2008 - 06:16 pm

Looking back at the 2001 team, how did that team stay in contention for as long as it did? Todd Dunwoody was getting semi-regular playing time, for cryin' out loud. And the Cubs won 12 in a row at one point and led the division by six games in late June!

Submitted by Cubster on Wed, 06/04/2008 - 06:20 pm

just looked at the last I-Cubs boxscore and noted that Jason DuBois hit a HR for them on tuesday. Yes it's that Jason DuBois, who probably will get displaced by Micah Hoffpauir shortly. The circle of (baseball) life.

Submitted by hellfrozeover on Thu, 06/05/2008 - 06:11 am

Was Lilly really that bad yesterday? I missed the game, but his final line in the box score looks pretty decent: 7.1 IP, 7H, 2ER, 2BB, 8K Prefer to get the number of hits down, but that's not too bad overall.

Submitted by Doug Dascenzo on Thu, 06/05/2008 - 06:31 am

That game was vintage Maddux. His ball had some unbelievable movement on it, and he probably could have pitched 14 innings before he got to 100 pitches.

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