Game 121 Thread / Cubs @ Braves (3 of 3)
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| SP | *Ted Lilly | SP | *Tom Glavine |
| 11-16, 4.26, 133 K, 52 BB, 148 IP | 2-3, 4.85, 34 K, 33 BB, 59.1 IP | ||
| LF | Alfonso Soriano | SS | Yunel Escobar |
| RF | *Kosuke Fukudome | 2B | Martin Prado |
| 1B | Derrek Lee | 3B | #Chipper Jones |
| 3B | Aramis Ramirez | LF | Omar Infante |
| CF | Reed Johnson | 1B | *Casey Kotchmann |
| C | Geovany Soto | RF | Jeff Francoeur |
| 2B | Mark DeRosa | CF | *Mark Kotsay |
| SS | Ryan Theriot | C | Clint Sammons |
| P | *Ted Lilly | P | *Tom Glavine |
The Cubs go for the sweep and hopefully gain some ground on the Brewers, who are losing 3-2 in the ninth in San Diego as I write this. The Cubs doubleheader sweep last night was their first since 2003 over the Pirates (I'm sure you remember the day) and first road sweep since 1992 over the Cardinals.
It'll be Lilly for the Cubs, the proud owner of a 2.53 ERA on the road this season. For the Braves, it's the return of Tom Glavine off the disabled list, his first start since facing the Cubs in early June.












#1 Re: Game 121 Thread / Cubs @ Braves (3 of 3)
#2 Re: Game 121 Thread / Cubs @ Braves (3 of 3)
Brewers lose 3-2 to Padres. Wow.
#3 Re: Game 121 Thread / Cubs @ Braves (3 of 3)
Brewers lose to Jake Peavy and co. Not that big of a surprise. Now they've got to face the Dodgers, including Kershaw with no Sheets and Sabathia.
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#5 Re: Game 121 Thread / Cubs @ Braves (3 of 3)
fwiw, weekend matchups
Parra vs Billingsley, Bush vs Lowe, Suppan vs. Kershaw
Z vs. Josh Johnson, Dempster vs. Sanchez, Marshall vs. Volstad
I guess Yost scrapped the 5th starter platoon he was going to do with McClung and Bush.
#4 Re: Game 121 Thread / Cubs @ Braves (3 of 3)
Finally - let's hope Glavin still has a few more starts to go before he's back in form.
#6 2 Cub minor leaguers suspended for PEDs
Starling Peralta
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stat...
Francory Pineda
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stat...
#7 Re: Game 121 Thread / Cubs @ Braves (3 of 3)
38, hoping for 37...
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#13 Re: Game 121 Thread / Cubs @ Braves (3 of 3)
37
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#8 Aramis day-to-day
Aramis day-to-day with hip contusion....
http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/bas...
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#9 Re: Game 121 Thread / Cubs @ Braves (3 of 3)
Home run Howry strikes again!
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#10 Re:Home run Howry strikes again!
That was a steely-eyed Lou who took out Howry tonight.
No pat on the shoulder, no pat on the butt,
no eye contact. No nothin'.
Doghouse.
Well, we can only hope.
#11 Cycling
Mark Cotsay player of the game on Cubs broadcast.
~tip cap~
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#12 Re: Cycling
WGN... Aramis Ramirez player of the game
#14 Re: Game 121 Thread / Cubs @ Braves (3 of 3)
So, we swept the Braves 6-0 this year.
Hope Aramis isn't too seriously hurt.
#15 Re: Game 121 Thread / Cubs @ Braves (3 of 3)
Howry just bought a St. Bernard
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http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/print?id=3534583&ty...
His only problem in Chicago was getting in Lou's doghouse. And when you get in that doghouse, you don't get out. It's a very deep doghouse. It's kind of a Saint Bernard
doghouse.
--One scout on Scott Eyre's relationship with Lou Piniella
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#18 Bob Howlry
Maybe he can keep a small barrell around his neck with H2O to keep Z hydrated.
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#16 Re: Game 121 Thread / Cubs @ Braves (3 of 3)
just watched the video of Lilly's hbp against Escobar. Awesome timing. Top of 7th, no outs 11-4 lead. Last game vs Braves this year and the multi-year vendetta gets the last word in (until next year)
...of course that lead to our St Bernard coming into the game...so there's always consequences, but all's well that ends well.
Maybe Ted can get one of his Toronto buddies to buzz Renteria when they play the Tigers...or at least leave a horse'shead in his bed. Now we know his second middle name. Theodore Roosevelt Corleone Lilly.
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#17 ERIC PATTERSON
back up with the A's replacing Ryan Sweeney, out with a bumb thumb.
Murton's actually looked better than EPatt lately but who cares? right?
#19 Re: Game 121 Thread / Cubs @ Braves (3 of 3)
EPatt and Murton are dead to us.
#20 Re: Game 121 Thread / Cubs @ Braves (3 of 3)
Marshall moved up to pitch in the saturday game
http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball/cubs/11091...
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#21 Mark Cuban
Cuban does Kilo Kai, LOVES CHICAGO!
http://312diningdiva.blogspot.com/2008/08/cuban-do...
#22 Re: Game 121 Thread / Cubs @ Braves (3 of 3)
Hey... we may have our nemesis, the Fish, tonight, but at least MKE has some competition for a change -- they're in LA.
"You gonna get ManRammed!"
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#23 Re: Game 121 Thread / Cubs @ Braves (3 of 3)
http://www.anothercubsblog.net/index.php/tournamen...
You're up today, crunch.
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#25 Re: Game 121 Thread / Cubs @ Braves (3 of 3)
You have to admit, this gimmick for getting people to pay attention to their blog is working. I'll probably forget all about it after this contest is over, but they'll get their 15-minutes.
Yawn.
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#26 Re: Game 121 Thread / Cubs @ Braves (3 of 3)
You have got to give them credit. Their writeups have shown that they have put a fair amount of thought into this.
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#27 Re: Game 121 Thread / Cubs @ Braves (3 of 3)
I'm not sure, but I think your matchup is scheduled for Monday.
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#29 Re: Game 121 Thread / Cubs @ Braves (3 of 3)
told you last time.
all 2 dozen of you care a lot.
i'm not in that 2 dozen.
end o' story.
#24 Rosenblog today:Who's the Bigger Disappointment, FELIX PIE or
JERRY OWENS?
http://blogs.chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/rose...
Yawn
#28 Soto for MVP?
http://insider.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?entryID...
Gammons tries to make the case...all kinds of Soto love from his pitchers.
#30 Re: Soto for MVP?
Little off-topic, but of all the sports broadcasters, I vote for Gammons as "most likely to be a coke addict". Just IMO... FWIW.
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#31 Re: Soto for MVP?
From the Gammons article:
It was always a good story, but it has improved with time. I'm pretty sure we lost two out of three to the Nats, including the game right before the busride.
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#36 Re: Soto for MVP?
The Cubs did lose two of three, but they won the third game 7-0.
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#38 Re: Soto for MVP?
No, actually they lost the first game on April 25th 5-3, won the 2nd game 7-0, but lost the series finale on April 27th 2-0.
#39 Re: Soto for MVP?
Ah... you are right. I just glanced at Soto's game log. Soto didn't play in game three, which made it look like the series ended with the shutout.
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#32 DL "thems"
glavine back to the DL after a little elbow soreness from airing out all those 82-84mph fastballs and low/mid 70s junkballs.
carpenter (STL) back to the DL, too.
#33 Re: DL "thems"
And at least one Cards blog is mailing it in.
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#34 Re: DL "thems"
pretty realistic view of the situation.
amazing enough they're competing, but what's new for them. almost yearly the ownership/gm/whatever shortchange the team...they scrap together some sprare parts...and along with a weird pipeline of rookies that can hit homers no one saw coming they manage to win a lot more than expected.
they still got a pretty legit shot at the WC even if it seems like MIL/CHC don't want to go into a death spiral right now.
cubs/mil had that weird week where the cubs/mil were tied for 1st with STL a few games back...a week later they're 5 games leading with mil/stl tied for 2nd.
#35 Re: Game 121 Thread / Cubs @ Braves (3 of 3)
VA Phil was singing this guy's praises the other day, and now Cubs.com has a write up on him. Sounds like he's got a pretty good head on his shoulders:
http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=2...
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#37 Re: Game 121 Thread / Cubs @ Braves (3 of 3)
Aaaannndd.... the reason why I don't really care too much about instant replay. The umps suck now days. Fuck them.
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