Cubsters Last Stand
GAME 106 IN-GAME DISCUSSION THREAD [PARACHAT]
CHICAGO CUBS (53-52) @ PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES (55-51)
CITIZENS BANK PARK, 6:05 pm CDT, TV: CSN
Wow, that's a lot of lefties in the Phillies lineup. Luckily Big Z handles them almost as effortlessly as he does the righties. I suppose we found the answer to the "Where Will Matt Lawton Play" sweepstakes? Sorry, Murton. Let's hope that he still gets to play against lefties as Lawton doesn't hit those southpaws all so well. As anyone could have predicted, Dusty pretty much went with alternating righties and lefties down the order, so let's hope we have a few more Felipe Alou's out there.
I made my point last week that we needed to do a lot better in our homestand if the playoffs were to be reached this year. So we've now moved onto having to roll over the competition rather then just beating them soundly. And since the teams we face this week are some of our direct competition, 5 out of 6 is just about mandatory. And with three-fifths of our rotation nothing more than average, that will be a tough task to accomplish, unless Lawton can inspire our offense to another nice stretch of healthy run scoring.
Go Cubs!
Vicente Padilla, RHP 5-9, 5.45 ERA 54/42 K/BB, 16 HR in 79.1 IP |
Carlos Zambrano, RHP 7-4, 3.43 ERA 128/61 K/BB, 12 HR in 139.0 IP |
LF *Matt Lawton | SS #Jimmy Rollins |
CF Jerry Hairston | CF *Kenny Lofton |
1B Derrek Lee | 2b *Chase Utley |
RF *Jeromy Burnitz | RF *Bobby Abreu |
3B Aramis Ramirez | LF Pat Burrell |
2B *Todd Walker | 1B *Ryan Howard |
SS #Neifi Perez | 3B David Bell |
C Michael Barrett | C Mike Lieberthal |
P #Carlos Zambrano | P #Vicente Padilla |
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