Archive - Apr 30, 2008

Luke Sommer beat-out a dribbler down the third-base line for a game-winning infield single, as the EXST Cubs rallied to edge the EXST Angels 8-7 at Fitch Park Field #3 this morning in Mesa.

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SP	Jeff Suppan	SP	Ryan Dempster
	1-0, 3.48, 11 K, 10 BB		3-0, 2.90, 21 K, 14 BB
2B	Rickie Weeks	LF	Reed Johnson
CF	Mike Cameron	SS	Ryan Theriot
LF	Ryan Braun	1B	Derrek Lee
1B	*Prince Fielder	3B	Aramis Ramirez
RF	Corey Hart	RF	*Kosuke Fukudome
3B	Bill Hall	2B	Mark DeRosa
SS	JJ Hardy	C	Geovany Soto
P	Jeff Suppan	CF	*Felix Pie
C	Jason Kendall	P	Ryan Dempster

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Cubs are one loss from dropping out of first place behind the Cardinals and into a second place tie with the Brewers. A loss would also give the Cubs their first real losing streak of the season (I start counting at three) and they'd lose a second consecutive series to their main competition for the Central crown. So yeah, today would certainly be a nice day for a win.

Dempster will take to the mound to try and help accomplish that and he did start the one lone victory in the opening series. We'lll happily take another six inning, two walk, five strikeout, one earned run performance if you have it in you. He hasn't had a lot of experience versus the members of the current Brewers (possibly the reason for his last success), but do watch out for Jason Kendall who's 13 for 28 versus Dempster for a 464/583/536 line.

2nd Basemen | Poll 1st Basemen | Poll We march on around the diamond. Today it's the double play partner of yesterday's vote. The Cubs so far have the 2nd best first basemen and second basemen in the division. Can Ryan Theriot keep the streak going? Answer - no!

Your scrap-tastic contenders after the jump....

UPDATE: Thanks to you wonderful readers, it was brought to my attention to check Tejada's projections since he revealed his true age. His WARP-3 three year projection is updated in the chart and went down from 4.13 to 3.2. I'd still rate him first though even though he now drops behind Hardy and Wilson in the WARP-3 projections.