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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
* Richard Lovelady
Hector Neris 
Daniel Palencia 
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
Hayden Wesneski 

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

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

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Pete Crow-Armstrong 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 8 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Luke Little, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 2
* Cody Bellinger, OF  
Seiya Suzuki, OF

15-DAY IL: 4
Kyle Hendricks, P 
* Drew Smyly, P 
* Justin Steele, P
* Jordan Wicks, P    

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




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Game 148 Thread / Cubs @ Cards (2 of 4)

Submitted by Rob G. on
Game Chat : BR Preview : Game Notes Ted Lilly vs. Braden Looper Lineups:
Soriano LF Miles 2B
Theriot SS Taguchi LF
Lee 1B Pujols 1B
Ward RF Ludwick RF
Jones CF Edmonds CF
DeRosa 3B Molina C
Soto C Cairo 3B
Fontenot 2B Looper P
Lilly P Ryan SS

Comments

Submitted by Chad on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 09:42 pm

As commented on in the last thread, this could be the Shawn Estes game of 2007. Oh, and a Happy New Year to you all! (Rosh Hashanah) May this year find you celebrating a Cubs championship. L'Shana Tova!!!

Submitted by JoePepitone on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 09:50 pm

Lou being funny in the pre-game show tonight: (As close to verbatim as I could get on the fly) "we get a little hopper, then it hits the base and I see those billy goat horns sticking up; then he hits the ball into right center and I'm thinking Pie will get it & hold him to a single or a double and suddenly I'm seeing those billy goat horns sticking up again...." Damn funny!

Submitted by The E-Man on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 09:50 pm

"As commented on in the last thread, this could be the Shawn Estes game of 2007." Thank you. It was my comment. He pitched 9 shut out innings in an 8-0 W against the Reds. This is en rout to an 8-11 record and being left off the playoff roster. Of course we had Guthrie and Veres.

Submitted by The E-Man on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 09:52 pm

L’Shana Tova!!! to you - as well! May you feast happily with no Cubs-related indigestion. Take it easy on the matzoh balls and the challah,

Submitted by dave on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 09:52 pm

Lee out, Ward in, per Len and Bob. Lee is out due to the foul off his leg last night.

Submitted by JoePepitone on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 09:54 pm

What a lousy lineup!!! Fontenot? Useless! Kendall 6th? Yer killin' me! Theriot? Sit the slumping, exhausted scrappy guy down for about a week! Can't hit nothin'. (Hopefully that'll be good for a nice offensive explosion tonight -- or does that jinx it?)

Submitted by Hobart Mike on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 09:16 pm

Good start. Please Trachsel - don't give any of it back in the bottom half of the inning!!

Submitted by DP on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 09:29 pm

bunting when you're down by 4 runs has got to be the most pathetic move in baseball. thank goodness it's them and not us.

Submitted by Eric S on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 09:15 pm

This game feels like Tuesday's all over again ... an early 3-run homer then the offense goes to sleep. Running Traschel out there each inning is like the Russian roulette scene in The Deer Hunter -- more Astros bullets added to the chamber per inning.

Submitted by Green Lantern on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 09:20 pm

said at the end of the 4th: lou, take trachsel out, now. he's given you about all he's going to, don't let him go through the top of the order again. we can fashion 5 innings somehow.....better that then having to run through all the guys at the end.

Submitted by Johann on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 09:33 pm

Ward's lowest OPS was .800 in April, when he had a .500 OBP. I'm not sure who ever wanted to DFA him.

Submitted by Green Lantern on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 09:39 pm

yikes......i was seriously sick to my stomach during the berkman and lee ABs......looks like that will be all for trachs, thanks for the effort, hope next time we see you it's bc someone in the division has signed you for 2008....

Submitted by Green Lantern on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 09:40 pm

johann he didn't have a bad april but it was all walks, and lots of people just saw that he was behind when he swung.....there were definitely some "DFA ward" posts when they had a mini-roster crunch in mid/late april.....i remember AZ phil actually commented about how it would play out from a salary perspective

Submitted by Green Lantern on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 09:41 pm

is there anything dumber than this stadium? its like fenway, but worse and dumber bc it was built on puprose. i am beyond ready to not see the astros until 08

Submitted by Green Lantern on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 09:42 pm

just the fact that jones' ball just now, and soriano and ramirez's last night are singles, but loretta's is a homer tonight is a travesty......idiots.

Submitted by crunch on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 09:02 pm

*hate* this stadium. LF and LF-CF are a joke...the box in LF is insulting. yeah, they can do wtf-ever they want within reason and freaky stadiums are a part of baseball's history, but i just do not like the play of the Juice Box.

Submitted by Green Lantern on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 09:06 pm

wes, i'm fine with it showing up now if it stays around another 5-6 weeks or so....

Submitted by Green Lantern on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 09:52 pm

dmac, dempster pitched the last two nights, marmol had last night off, and it was a 4 run game.....no change coming i'm sure. a split in st louis is enough to be able to forget about the cards (they'd be 5 out with 12 to play for the cubs, 14 for the cards....means if the cubs went 6-6 the cards would need to go 12-2 in their 14 to tie.....not bloody likely) however, obviously taking 3 of 4 would be huge towards getting some distance from milwaukee.

Submitted by Dave_in_Pittsburgh on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 09:01 pm

The punch line: "premature e-trachsel-ation" Haven't thought of the setup yet. something along the lines of "rumors of his demise may be exaggerated."

Submitted by iowaCub on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 09:38 pm

Back in first (cue someone to quickly mention that we're still tied in the loss column with Mil, and you know what that means ...). Anyone know if D-Lee is for sure going to be OK for tomorrow night? I only listened to a sliver of the game, and during that time I didn't hear any updates.

Submitted by JoePepitone on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 09:31 pm

Cubster -- re: your physics discussion addressing Prof. Theriot -- i.e., “We don’t exert as much energy. We don’t have as much mass.” ======= Dear Professor Theriot: (force) F = M (mass) x A (acceleration) As long as The Riot accelerates proportionately more than the big mass players, he’ll be fine. Now, as to the other equation regarding Energy and Mass… which has something to do with the speed of light squared and therefore correlating with stolen base percentages. He’s got to work a bit harder on that. __________ Brilliant! LOL! I love seeing an Einstein's General Relativity Theory reference in the middle of a Cubs blog. (or was that a Special Relativity Theory ref? Dang. Can't remember.)

Submitted by chifan3887 on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 09:06 pm

Nice win and solid play allround, but the only thing I thought Lou gaffed on was bringing in Marmol for the 8th. I think I would have let Woody go 2 and then use Marmol in the 9th or had Hart come in the 7th , Wood in the 8th, and Marmol in 9th. Using him for 2 tonight would seem to elimnate him from being used tomrrow which seems dumb to do. Also are Ohman, Piggy, Gallagher, and Wuertz still around, I dont think I have seen any of the 4 pitch in atleast 10 days.

Submitted by chifan3887 on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 09:20 pm

Also the guy is 23 and in Low A ball. So it seems Hendry should have just asked for cash.

Submitted by Hobart Mike on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 09:35 pm

3/44?

Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 09:41 pm

yeah brief mention of Mateo about 2 threads ago... on another note, Floyd's last 2 blasts sure weren't cheapies. Hope he can keep that up.

Submitted by Wes on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 09:51 pm

Marmol threw 25 tonight. Can probably go again tomorrow if you need him. Certainly not the next two days, but likely either/or.

Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 09:37 pm

Marmol came in right when he needed to against their best hitters in the 8th. He made it through efficiently enough that Lou stuck with him. It wasn't really a pretty ninth for those on Marmol closer watch fwiw.

Submitted by The Real Neal on Fri, 09/14/2007 - 09:16 am

I thought Weurtz should have pitched the 9th. Pinheadiella is getting into panic mode. Will burning out 3 relievers be his answer to Dusty's 130 pitch outtings?

Submitted by BillyBucks on Fri, 09/14/2007 - 09:06 am

I am now beginning to see the logic of batting Soriano leadoff. HItting with men on base, he is even more overanxious and free-swinging than usual, usually resulting in a K or pop-up. Pitchers are programmed not to walk the first batter of the game, and want to set the "tone" of throwing strikes, so it's more likely that Soriano will see a strike then.

Submitted by Virginia Phil on Fri, 09/14/2007 - 09:50 am

It wasn’t really a pretty ninth for those on Marmol closer watch fwiw. Jones's catch was pretty. Also, I like it when a pitcher gets mad at himself and starts throwing hard. After slider-walking a soft-hitting rookie with two outs in the ninth, Marmol blew three fastballs past Palmeiro.

Recent comments

  • crunch (view)

    bleh.

    at least MIL has lost the past 2 nights, too.

  • crunch (view)

    madrigal pinch hitting for matt mervis vs jansen?

    okay.

  • crunch (view)

    surprising amount of cubs fans at the park, too.  HR really brought them out.

  • Cubster (view)

    hmmmm... 

    4-4

    beisbol can be fun

  • crunch (view)

    4 singles and 0 walks (1 HBP) through 7 innings for cubs batters...amazing they even have 1 run.

  • crunch (view)

    nico gets his 5th error on the year...damn.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Folks, I've known Richard Lovelady since he was an 18 yr old Freshman at East Ga State College in Swainsboro, Ga.

    I was the WBB Coach at EGSC and Richard was their prize recruit from outside of Hinesville, Ga.

    My roommate was the Pitching Coach there.

    Richard showed up a skinny, loose lipped, 83mph Lefty. Pretty good basketball player actually. 

    My roommate became the head coach.

    Richard came back from a minor injury for his Sophmore year a more serious man. He hit 90mph and started mowing GA JUCO hitters down. It was really fun to watch.

    He was the first D1 signee for EGSC baseball (school had only had athletics for five yrs at that point). He went to Kennesaw St and became their closer. One yr later, he hit 100mph and KC drafted him in the 10th Rd. 

    He lost the high velo with a surgery a while back.

    It's so cool to see him in MLB. And now he's a Cub!! It's crazy to realize I actually "know" a Cub.

    He's a legit good guy.

    Easy to root for!!!

     

  • Cubster (view)

    Tim. Thanks for remembering Lee Elia Day. It will always be one of the most epic rants in all sports.  It took about 3 seconds to recognize him from your picture but I  did get it right. 

    Now that Les Grobstein is no longer with us, that might contribute to this grand piece of Cubbery fading.

    Just like fine wine, it should be savored...unedited. 40 years, wow.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    Does he have any options left, Phil?

  • crunch (view)

    morel in the lineup and playing 3rd.

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