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Game 25 Thread / Cubs @ Nationals (3 of 3)

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SP *Ted Lilly
 SP
*John Lannan
  1-3, 7.30, 18 K, 11 BB
1-2, 3.42, 21 K, 10 BB
       
CF
 Reed Johnson
 2B
 #Felipe Lopez
SS
 Ryan Theriot SS
 #Cristian Guzman
1B
Derrek Lee 3B
Ryan Zimmerman
3B
Aramis Ramirez 1B
*Nick Johnson
RF
*Kosuke Fukudome CF
Lastings Milledge
LF
 Mark DeRosa RF
 Austin Kearns
2B Ronny Cedeno
 LF
 Wily Mo Peña
C
 Henry Blanco
C
 Wi Nieves
P *Ted Lilly P *John Lannan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cubs go for the series win and a winning road trip (3-2).

Lilly is coming off his first win and best outing of the year, on Tuesday when he beat the Mets. Though his pitching line was pretty attractive--6IP, 4H, 1ER--he also walked four and needed a couple of key pitches to avoid some serious problems.

The Cubs may face a good test in young Lannan, who fanned 11 New York Mets in just six innings on April 17th, then blanked the Braves for seven innings this past Tuesday, on his way to a victory over John Smotz.

Ronny Cedeno, hitting .400 (10-for-25) over the last week, gets bumped up in the order to seventh, Henry Blanco gets the obligatory Sunday start for backup catchers, and Geovany Soto gets a much needed day off, during which he can contemplate an atrocity so awful, veteran baseball man Lou Piniella has never seen anything like it.


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Submitted by Charlie on Sun, 04/27/2008 - 04:55 am

8 strikeouts in a row is pretty awful, but I feel more confident that Soto will come out of it than I have many other rookies, because Soto has a history (dating farther back than just last year, his breakout minor league year) of showing pretty good plate discipline. His Ks have always been on the high side, but he's also typically shown the ability to take a walk. That means that at some point they'll have to throw him pitches in the strikezone, rather than bouncing pitches or throwing them over his head to get him out (ala Patterson/Pie/Soriano/Sosa/etc.). In other news: High-profile releases seem more common this year than in the past. Frank Thomas recently picked up by the A's after having been dumped by the Jays for purely financial reasons (Thomas seems likely to come out of his slump and continue to produce, and TCR recently predicted he would do better than Carlos Delgado this year). Today, the Pirates dumped Matt Morris and wrote him a check for $11 million. Sure, Matt wasn't going to help them do anything, but they could've hoped to pawn him off to a team that desperately desired a starting pitcher with some history at the trade deadline for some cash relief. I mean, that's how the O's and Steve Trachsel worked out, and Trachsel was never an especially good pitcher.

Submitted by Fireball on Sun, 04/27/2008 - 04:23 pm

I have a friend who is a Pirates fan. I told him I was going to lay off teasing him about Aramis... and now I have a brand new thing to tease him about. (Especially since he said last year that the Morris trade wasn't a bad deal. Wait, what?)

Submitted by Cubster on Sun, 04/27/2008 - 04:28 pm

from Wikipedia on Nats starter John Lannan...and his claim to fame: the Nationals... purchased Lannan's contract on July 26, 2007. In his debut, behind 3-2 with one out in the fifth inning, Lannan hit Chase Utley with a fastball (breaking Utley's hand) and then hit Ryan Howard on the next pitch, whereupon umpire Hunter Wendelstedt immediately ejected Lannan from the game; Lannan was the first Major Leaguer in a decade to be tossed from his debut.

Submitted by carmelo on Sun, 04/27/2008 - 04:25 pm

fine line between winning and losing----Th vs Col, top of 8th, bases loaded, o outs score only 1 run-----Fri vs Wash, top of 8th, bases loaded 1 out score only 1 run---today 2nd and 3rd, 0 outs and 2nd and 3rd 1 out and score 0 runs---base hit in any of those situations would have resulted in leads and probably wins

Submitted by Bigz on Sun, 04/27/2008 - 04:22 pm

Is it me or was the Nats game plan to off speed the whole team? We just can not handle a hefty diet of off speed. Look for this game plan to be copied big time over the coming weeks. Last place team gave up 10 runs in 3 games and 1 game we scored 7.

Submitted by Rob G. on Sun, 04/27/2008 - 04:00 pm

worse part of the game was the runs Lilly gave up (although he looked significantly better today). I think it was an 0-2 count he gave up the first run-scoring single. A play that Soriano probably throws out Johnson on. I think he was ahead of the count on the next hitter too and Felix Pie probably throws out that runner as well at the plate.

Submitted by crunch on Sun, 04/27/2008 - 04:32 pm

sans soriano... just noticed the team's hitters with 70-ish+ ABs (guys we'd consider starters at this point) are ALL .400+ ob% guys...except that lazy useless derosa and his .385-ish ob% (trade the bum). pie/fontenot lingering around 40ab's and we know what they've done...soriano had/has 57.

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  • crunch (view)

    best starter and 2 top hitters from the team gone...and they keep on winning.

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  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

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    Phil, do you think Wiggins will start out in ACL?

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    The level of conversation on this site is intelligent, reasoned and informative. Miles ahead of other Cub sites.

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    This was Jaxon Wiggins previous "live" BP on 4/5: 

    JAXON WIGGINS: 
    ONE INNING (20 pitches - 10 strikes) 
    one batted ball in play (F-9 by Stevens)
    one walk (B. Davis) 
    one HBP (B. Davis)
    two strikeouts (Peralta & Escobar - both looking)
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  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Prior to the Cactus League game at Papago Park, three Cubs pitchers threw "live" BP on Field 1 at the Cubs Sloan Park complex, including RHRP Ethan Roberts (June 2022 TJS) and Cubs 2023 2nd round draft pick RHP Jaxon Wiggins (February 2023 TJS).  

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    JAXON WIGGINS: 
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    no batted balls in play
    two walks (Suriel and J. Diaz) 
    three strikeouts (Carico, Lubo, and Escobar - all three swinging)
    six swing & miss
    two fouls 
    three called strikes 
    14 called balls 
    one WP 

    ETHAN ROBERTS: 
    ONE INNING 
    15 pitches (7 strikes) 
    two batted balls in play (G-3 by Carico and L-9 by Suriel) 
    two walks (Lubo and Carico)
    no strikeouts  
    no swing & miss 
    two fouls 
    three called strikes 
    eight called balls 
    one WP 

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    MAT PETERS: 
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    44 pitches (23 strikes) 
    five batted balls in play (F-7, L-7, F-7, G-6, G-3) 
    three walks 
    two strikeouts (both Lubo and both looking)
    six swing & miss 
    three fouls 
    nine called strikes
    21 called balls 
    three WP 

  • crunch (view)

    wall stole a HR from busch...double.  nice to see him destroy a curve ball.

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  • CTSteve (view)

    I’m at the game—woot!

    If the streak breaks, it’s not my fault.

  • Cubster (view)

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  • crunch (view)

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