The almighty Redbirds march into Wrigley Field which has been their own version of "The Killing Fields", losing all seven games they've played here this year. Today's pitchers met back
on July 28th here at Wrigley, a game in which Marmol walked seven in a five and third innings. That sounds familiar. But we seem to bring out the very worst in
Scott Rolen who committed a throwing error in the fourth which would have ended the inning (He has something like 3 or 4 crucial errors against us this year, he only has 10 for the whole season). Pierre promptly tripled in three runs and the Cubs held on for victory.
Another fun stat, Pujols is 4 for 24 at Wrigley this year without a homer. Do not taunt
Albert Pujols or Happy Fun Ball!
Cubs could make the Central very interesting with another sweep this weekend.
Go Cubs!
GAME ONE HUNDRED-TWENTY-ONE IN-GAME DISCUSSION THREAD [PARACHAT]
ST. LOUIS CARDINALS (64-56 (Div) 1st- 0 GB; (Wild Card) N/A) AT CHICAGO CUBS (52-68 (Div) 5th - 12.0 GB; (Wild Card) 12th - 9.5 GB)
Wrigley Field, 1:20 pm CDT
Weather: Overcast, 82 degrees, Wind Out to CF @ 8 mph
TV: CSN, DirecTV 735
Radio: WGN, XM 187
Carlos Marmol, RHP
5-5, 5.50 ERA, 68.2 IP
52 K, 55 BB, 11 HR
234/378/464 against | Jason Marquis, RHP
12-11, 5.71 ERA, 156 IP
73 K, 55 BB, 28 HR
283/352/497 against |
|
David Eckstein, SS
*Chris Duncan, LF
Albert Pujols, 1B
Scott Rolen, 3B
Juan Encarnacion, CF
Preston Wilson, RF
Ronnie Belliard, 2B
Gary Bennett, C
*Jason Marquis, P | *Juan Pierre, CF
#Cesar Izturis
Michael Barrett, C
Aramis Ramirez, 3B
*Jacque Jones, RF
#Angel Pagan, LF
*John Mabry, 1B
Ronny Cedeno, 2B
Carlos Marmol, P |
| Cardinals vs Marmol:
No Cardinals with more than 10 AB's
| Cubs vs. Marquis:
Juan Pierre: 6-23, 261/346/435, 1 K, 3 BB, 3 XBH
Michael Barrett: 8-22, 364/440/591, 0 K, 4 BB, 4 XBH
Aramis Ramirez: 8-19, 421/476/737, 1 K , 2 BB, 3 XBH
Cesar Izturis: 5-12, 417/417/500, 2 K, 0 BB, 1 2B |
Preston Wilson signed with the Cardinals today and Edmonds is out indefinitely with post-concussion syndrome, something that has knocked
Corey Koskie and
Mike Matheny out for the season. Poor Matt Murton sits again. I don't even want to bring up his August numbers.
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