The almighty Braves have fallen, their miraculous run of division titles will likely come to an official end this weekend. They still have the faintest of hopes for a wild card birth, but obviously chances are slimmer than slim when your seven games back and trailing seven other teams. Makes you think Leo Mazzone really was the genius over there, but then you look at the Orioles who have given up the 2nd most runs in baseball.
Enough about Hotlanta, the Cubs are a story in themselves, a story of pain, suffering, heartbreak, and an ending about as upbeat as one would find in a James Ellroy novel. Only 22 more games to endure.
Go Cubs!
GAME ONE HUNDRED-FORTY-ONE IN-GAME DISCUSSION THREAD [PARACHAT]
CHICAGO CUBS (56-84, 2nd, 4.5 GB) AT ATLANTA BRAVES (66-73, (WC) 7th, 7 GB)
Turner Field, 6:05 pm CDT
Weather: Partly Cloudy, 81 degrees, Wind in from RF @ 7 mph
TV: CLTV, DirecTV 739
Radio: WGN, XM 184
Tim Hudson, RHP
11-10, 4.95 ERA, 189 IP
116 K, 66 BB, 21 HR
273/339/436 against | Angel Guzman, RHP
0-4, 7.05 ERA, 44.2 IP
50 K, 30 BB, 5 HR
297/408/451 against |
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*Juan Pierre, CF
Ryan Theriot, 2B
Aramis Ramirez, 3B
Derrek Lee, 1B
*Jacque Jones, RF
Matt Murton, LF
Ronny Cedeno, SS
Geovany Soto, C
Angel Guzman, P | Marcus Giles, 2B
Edgar Renteria, SS
*Adam LaRoche, 1B
Andruw Jones, CF
*Brian McCann, C
Jeff Francoeur, RF
#Willy Aybar, 3B
*Scott Thorman, LF
Tim Hudson, P |
| Cubs vs. Hudson:
Jacque Jones: 10-32, 313/313/531, 6 K, 0 BB, 2 HR, 1 2B
John Mabry: 4-16, 250/250/250
Juan Pierre: 3-13, 231/286/231
Aramis Ramirez: 3-10, 300/300/400 | Braves vs. Guzman:
No Braves with more than 10 Ab's
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Nice to see Soto get a start and it does seem like Dusty is at least trying to get Murton and Theriot more AB's than Bynum and Pagan, although the discrepancy is far closer than I'd like. I'm more curious to see how Guzman does with Soto than anything Soto does with the bat.
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