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Cubs Suffer Two Tough Blows
Submitted by Cubnut on Sun, 05/25/2008 - 11:38pm.
The Cubs followed Saturday night's disappointing loss with one of the agonizing variety on Sunday afternoon. The blown saves by Kerry Wood and Carlos Marmol also lowered the Cubs' save conversion rate to 14 saves in 22 opportunities, or an unimpressive 64%. (Marmol's "failure," of course, was due primarily to Alfonso Soriano's work in left field, not a failing of the pitcher's.)
Before Sunday's disaster, here is how the Cubs and their designated closer stacked up to the rest of the National League and the respective teams' individual saves leaders, several of whom have already lost their "closer" tags because of ineffectiveness or injury.
Game 50 Thread / Cubs @ Pirates (3 of 3)
Submitted by Cubnut on Sun, 05/25/2008 - 8:19am.
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| SP | *Ted Lilly |
SP |
*Paul Maholm |
| 5-4, 5.14, 56 K, 19 BB, 56 IP | 2-5, 5.03, 38 K, 20 BB, 53.2 IP | ||
| LF |
Alfonso Soriano | 2B |
Freddy Sanchez |
| SS |
Ryan Theriot |
SS |
Luis Rivas |
| 1B |
Derrek Lee | CF |
*Nate McLouth |
| 3B |
Aramis Ramirez | LF |
Jason Bay |
| CF |
Reed Johnson |
RF |
Xavier Nady |
| RF |
*Kosuke Fukudome | 1B |
*Adam LaRoche |
| 2B |
Mark DeRosa |
3B |
Jose Bautista |
| C |
Henry Blanco | C |
Ronny Paulino |
| P |
*Ted Lilly |
P |
*Paul Maholm |
The residue from last night's 14-inning loss:
- The Cubs need to win today to take the series and finish with a .500 road trip
- After pitching 8 innings last night, the bullpen is all beat to hell, with a Memorial Day home game on tap tomorrow
- The Wood-to-setup-man and Marmol-to-closer discussion can begin anew
- Alfonso Soriano got to play a 4-hour and 21-minute game on that calf muscle which isn't "injured" but sure looks like it when Soriano runs
- Any Cub fan who stayed up until the bitter end will be haunted the sight of Henry Blanco playing first base