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40 players are on the MLB RESERVE LIST (roster is full), plus one player is on the 60-DAY IL 

26 players on MLB RESERVE LIST are ACTIVE, ten players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors, three players are on the 15-DAY IL, and one player is on the 10-DAY IL

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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Ben Brown
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Hector Neris 
Daniel Palencia
* Drew Smyly
Keegan Thompson
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

INFIELDERS: 7
* Michael Busch 
Garrett Cooper
Nico Hoerner
Nick Madrigal
* Miles Mastrobuoni
Christopher Morel
Dansby Swanson

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Cody Bellinger 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 10 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Alexander Canario, OF 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Luis Vazquez, INF 
Hayden Wesneski, P 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Patrick Wisdom, INF 

15-DAY IL: 3
Julian Merryweather, P
* Justin Steele, P  
Jameson Taillon, P 

60-DAY IL: 1 
Caleb Kilian, P 

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Cubs-Cardinals Recap Lite

Submitted by Cubnut on
In beating the Cardinals 3-2 in the sunshine half of Saturday’s day-night doubleheader, the Cubs:
  • Overcame a rocky first inning that put them in an early hole
  • Won despite a dominant starting pitching performance by the opposition
  • Got the game-winning hit and a nice ninth-inning catch from the same, very important leftfielder
  • Saw their closer pitch like Friday night never happened
And we did it all in the blistering heat of a pennant race and at the expense of the Saint...Louis...Cardinals. Game two can’t begin soon enough.

Comments

Submitted by Green Lantern on Sat, 09/15/2007 - 09:36 pm

that was amazing.....talk about ripping their heart out. you get ramirez and floyd and kendall back for game two.....let's take a big lead into the last two weeks.

Submitted by Rob G. on Sat, 09/15/2007 - 09:31 pm

Dempster after last night's game. "You get in games when you're blowing somebody out or have a lead, and you don't want to walk anybody," Dempster said on Saturday. "Sometimes, you might pitch somebody a little differently than you would in a one-run game, somebody who maybe wouldn't see a fastball down the middle in a 3-2 count. "You don't want to walk them, because everybody yells at you when you walk them with a four-run lead," Dempster said. "Then you give up a home run, and they're like, 'What are you doing?' It's a catch-22." pretty much echoing what Wes said in a previous thread. He did say that it's still no excuse for the way he pitched yesterday.

Submitted by Virginia Phil on Sat, 09/15/2007 - 09:09 pm

Today Dempster did a good job mixing a 93 mph fastball with his offspeed pitch(es). He got Branyan on three sliders(/splitters?). Then he threw three fastballs and five offspeed to Schumaker, retiring him on a 3-2 fastball. He threw five pitches to Duncan. #3 was a fastball high and tight that Duncan swung and missed at. #4 was a fastball high and tight for ball 2. Right before the last pitch, a swinging strike-three slider(/splitter?), the Cardinal play-by-play guy said, "This is what makes Dempster so nasty: a mid-90 fastball followed by that splitter." My sentiments exactly.

Submitted by George Altman on Sat, 09/15/2007 - 09:33 pm

Today is the perfect example of why fans are fans and players are players. Half this board is ready to throw Dempster under the bus every time he gives up a run or ‘blows’ ……what is it?…..yeah, 3 saves blown all year. Who knows what happens in Game 2 if Dempster is needed or over the next 2 weeks. But for 148 games, you know what? Dempster has done the job he’s paid to do as well as almost any closer in the show. And I’m not an officer in the Ryan Dempster fan club. Next year is next year and Lou can figure that out during the off-season.

Submitted by DC Tom on Sat, 09/15/2007 - 09:39 pm

Great to see Marmol shut down the heart of the order in the 8th and Dempster finish up the rest. And any time we win a game without ARam or DLee in the line-up, I consider it an extra bonus. I have not watched the Cardinals much lately, but they seem listless. I wonder if the Encarnacion injury--which is really bad and career-threatening--has gotten to them. (And not simply because it makes So Taguchi an everyday player.)

Submitted by billybucks on Sat, 09/15/2007 - 09:43 pm

Cubs win a one-run game in September in St. Louis -- Dempster is dominant in a 1-2-3 ninth -- and the Brewers take the field at 6pm looking up at a Cub "W" already in the scoreboard. THIS is the good stuff.

Submitted by Johann on Sat, 09/15/2007 - 09:52 pm

Yep, dave and I are in it, as well as the Jacque Jones and Matt Murton fan clubs. Feel free to join one of them, we have free punch. Not the Zambrano kind though.

Submitted by DC Tom on Sat, 09/15/2007 - 09:59 pm

Are there dues or will my old Mitch Williams Fan Club card still be valid, Johann? I bought the Mitch Williams life membership upgrade but the Rod Beck's America Club guys didn't accept it. More people might join if they think we have punch and pie.

Submitted by dave on Sat, 09/15/2007 - 09:08 pm

Feel free to join one of them, we have free punch. Sometimes the punch is even spiked!! And no Pie... we don't want people to think we are in the Felix Fan Club. As for the Mitch Williams Club card? We will consider it, as long as you are willing to sign a loyalty oath to Dempster rather than The Wild Thing.

Submitted by DC Tom on Sat, 09/15/2007 - 09:21 pm

Darnit, I just read the back of my Mitch Williams Fan card, it says that my lifetime closer upgrade eligibility expires, "In the event of a blown save in the World Series or an All-Star Game "that counts" by the Party of the First Part." Huh.

Submitted by carmenfanzone on Sat, 09/15/2007 - 09:23 pm

I predict the Cards will show their frustration tonight by throwing at Soriano...

Submitted by Wes on Sat, 09/15/2007 - 09:32 pm

Was thinking that very same thing, carmen. LaRussa's going to be pissed about that strut. No doubt about it.

Submitted by Wes on Sat, 09/15/2007 - 09:36 pm

Soriano 7 Jones 8 Lee 3 Ramirez 5 Floyd 9 DeRosa 4 Kendall 2 Riot 6 Marshall 1 Taguchi 7 Ryan 6 Pujols 3 Ludwick 9 Edmonds 8 Molina 2 Spiezio 5 Pineiro 1 Cairo 4

Submitted by Jeff Pico on Sat, 09/15/2007 - 09:51 pm

If the Cardinals do throw at Soriano...I want to see Piniero tossed....just like Lilly was in Atlanta earlier this year.

Submitted by Chad on Sat, 09/15/2007 - 09:54 pm

Mitch WIllimams? Who is that? I only started following the Cubs in September of 2003.

Recent comments

  • Cubster (view)

    per Tribune: Suzuki MRI results pending from yesterday so we should get a timetable for return later today.

  • crunch (view)

    suzuki says he injured his oblique running to 1st, not swinging.  okay.  it's gonna be that kind of 2024 cubs year, huh?

    i would say that's good news compared to screwing it up swinging, but i'm not familiar with the recovery time of people screwing up their oblique by running.

    right side is at least different from his left side oblique injury last year.

  • crunch (view)

    5 IN A ROW!

    hack wilson, ryne sandberg, sammy sosa, christopher morel, and michael busch.

  • Cubster (view)

    A bit more Jewish take on one of my favorite Cubs, Kenny Holtzman. His 9-0 season while serving in the National Guard and being available to pitch on weekends was one of my coolest teen recollections. 

    https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/388554

  • Cubster (view)

    Suzuki out with oblique strain. Canario indeed is called up. No word on Morel so that might be a red herring (or a red digit).

    AZ lineup is posted but Counsell is always late to post his lineup.

  • crunch (view)

    You have to C it! (tm)

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    Best hitter: IL with oblique strain

    Second best hitter: hasn’t looked the same since jamming his right hand during a swing

    Third best hitter: playing through a sore hammy

    Best pitcher: IL after one start 

    Second best RP: IL after 1.5 weeks

    Noice 

  • crunch (view)

    suzuki 10d IL.

    right oblique strain.  ow.  that's generally more than a 10d thing.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    Seiya on IL with an oblique strain

  • crunch (view)

    cooper and morel are on the field doing pre-game stuff so it's not them...

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