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PITCHERS: 14
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

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

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

OPTIONED: 12 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Luke Little, P
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 
Hayden Wesneski, P 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Seiya Suzuki, OF

15-DAY IL: 
* Justin Steele, P   

60-DAY IL: 2 
Caleb Kilian, P 
Julian Merryweather, P
 




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Game 56 Thread / Rockies @ Cubs (3 of 4)

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SP *Glendon Rusch
 SP
Ryan Dempster
  1-2, 6.41, 12 K, 11 BB, 19.2 IP
6-2, 2.56, 56 K, 29 BB, 70.1 IP
       
CF
 Willy Taveras
 LF
 Alfonso Soriano
RF
*Seth Smith
 SS
 Ryan Theriot
1B
 *Todd Helton 1B
Derrek Lee
LF
Ryan Spilborghs 3B
Aramis Ramirez
3B
 *Ian Stewart C
Geovany Soto
C
 Chris Iannetta RF
 *Kosuke Fukudome
2B
 Jeff Baker
 2B
 Mark DeRosa
SS
 *Omar Quintanilla CF
 Reed Johnson
P
 *Glendon Rusch
 P
 Ryan Dempster

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Former Cub Glendon Rusch makes his first appearance at Wrigley since September 4, 2006. After a none too successful comeback with the Padres earlier this year (6.41 ERA in 12 relief appearances), the Rockies signed him, sent him to Triple-A Colorado Springs, recalled him after two successful appearances for the Sky Sox, and you know now everything you need to know about what a desperate season the Colorado Rockies are having.

Cubs Game Notes Fun Fact of the Day: the Cubs have held a lead in every game they've played since May 9th. That's 21 games and marks the first time since 1935 the Cubs have had such a run.

Favorite Account of Friday's Developments (from Troy Renck in the Denver Post):

...even in Wes Craven's dreams, it's hard to describe what happened to the Rockies on Friday at Wrigley Field.

 

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Comments

Submitted by Green Lantern on Sat, 05/31/2008 - 05:03 pm

nice little team....wow. what a month. the cubs have actually won 17 games or more in 5 of the last 6 months (june, july, sep in 07 and april and may of 08). 17 games X 6 months is 102 wins. gallagher continues his audition tomorrow...i'm not so sure he'll have as good of a time without the wind pounding in from left like tuesday. great stuff though....this team is so fun, the right field approach today that brenly talked about a ton was awesome.

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Submitted by The E-Man on Sat, 05/31/2008 - 05:31 pm

As much as I loathe saying it, the Cardinals org., along with the Braves, are the best in the NL. LaRussa's record over the last ten years speaks for itself. They even won the World Series after a starting pitcher dies! He is the best there is now... It sucks - the Cubs would be much further ahead in the East or even the West... The positive thing - this year it is looking like the Wild Card could come from the Central. At least, head to head against the other divisions, the Central has looked pretty strong.

Submitted by crunch on Sat, 05/31/2008 - 05:31 pm

so another ump had to leave the game today to go to hospital? is this the 3rd so far for cubs games this year? i know there's been 1 other one, but i think there was a 2nd, too.

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Submitted by Wes on Sun, 06/01/2008 - 06:09 am

The practice of using starters in extra innings is not uncommon. It would have been Harang's side day, so instead of throwing 60 pitches in his side session, he threw 63 pitches in the game. As far as using Volquez goes, please explain me why it's drastically different to throw 39 pitches on Wednesday night at midnight as opposed to throwing 60 or 65 pitches on Thursday at noon in his scheduled side session. I promise you his shoulder wasn't that opposed to the 12 hours worth of difference. Now, if you run him out there for 70 pitches or more, that's a little different. Using him sparingly the night before he would normally throw anyway isn't that ridiculous of a concept. I'm not trying to defend Dusty here, because I was never a big fan of his pitching staff management (particularly the way he managed his bullpen), but I don't think this is the tree to go barking up.

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Submitted by Wes on Sun, 06/01/2008 - 06:00 pm

Eh, that changes things a little for me. I watched most of the game and did hear George say that Harang's side day was THAT day and that Volquez's side day was the next day. I should have known that. I'm stupid. Didn't really think about where they were in the rotation. Harang is definitely one of the most durable guys in the game, but throwing 103 pitches on the 22nd, a side day on the 24th, and another 63 pitches on the 25th is probably a little excessive. He did get an extra day before his next start because of an off day the next day. Good news for Dusty is that he got rocked and got yanked after only 70 pitches. Didn't even have to worry about his pitch count. EDIT: All of that works on the idea that Harang threw his side session as scheduled on the Saturday, which is highly likely.

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Submitted by Wes on Sun, 06/01/2008 - 06:49 am

I don't disagree with that. It should definitely be noted that Dusty blew through his entire bullpen in 7.2 innings. Belisle went 4.1 in that game. Then here's what followed: Lincoln - .2 Burton - 1.1 Affeldt - .2 Weathers - 1.0 Cordero - 2.0 Fogg - .2 Bray 1.1 The 6 pitchers who are not the closer combined to throw 5.2 innings, which seems a bit silly, doesn't it? Now, there is a point somewhere out there, some certain inning, where a manager HAS to turn to his starters. You'd like to think that would at least be the 15th or 16th for Lou. In a related story, Lou probably wouldn't burn up half his bullpen by the seventh. Dusty DID put himself in that situation by burning through everyone. Once he did so, I wasn't really that oppposed to the way that he used Harang and Volquez. The thing is that it probably shouldn't come to that until much later than the 12th.

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  • Childersb3 (view)

    Mervis and Wesneski getting promoted aaccording to Tommy Birch from Des Moines Register.

    So Happ to the IL

    Maybe Hendricks to IL ????

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    I don't believe he has

  • crunch (view)

    “I respect his track record of what he’s accomplished,” Counsell said on Sunday morning. “And you go through these. He’s gone through -- maybe not this particular stretch -- but stretches where you’re not pitching the way you want to and struggling. And you figure it out.” -- Counsell on Hendricks

    fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...

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    Phil: Great to see what Rosario is doing!

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    In general there has been a weird overuse of Carmina Burana's O Fortuna in sports and commercials in past decade or so.  Maybe it is a fallback choice if there isn't anything else.   

     

    Sidenote, while the O Fortuna part has become a bit pop-culture cliched; the overall piece is very interesting and rather expansive in scope. I played percussion in a production of it while in college.  There is a rather jovial movement set in a tavern.  In the score it calls for the clinking of beer steins.  Let's just say we did a lot of research to determine the best sounding beer steins. 

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