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Game 82 Thread / Cubs @ White Sox (3 of 3)

Submitted by Rob G. on

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SP *Sean Marshall
 SP
*Mark Buehrle
  0-1, 5.40, 12 K, 8 BB, 13.1 IP
5-6, 4.04, 57 K, 27 BB, 104.2 IP
       
RF
 *Kosuke Fukudome
 SS
 Orlando Cabrera
SS
 Ryan Theriot
 C
 *A.J. Pierzynski
1B
 Derrek Lee LF
Carlos Quentin
3B
 Aramis Ramirez RF
Jermaine Dye
DH
 Geovany Soto DH
 *Jim Thome
LF
 Mark DeRosa
 3B
 Joe Crede
CF
 *Jim Edmonds 1B
 #Nick Swisher
C
 Henry Blanco 2B Alexei Ramirez
2B
 Ronny Cedeno
 CF Brian Anderson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 About a week ago, the Cubs set an ugly precedent by losing three in a row to the Rays. I see no good reason to set another today by losing their fourth in a row.

Sean Marshall takes the mound and it could be his last start for awhile. When Zambrano returns, Marshall could be headed to the bullpen to give Lou another lefty while Eyre nurses his sore groin or he'll head back to Iowa. Unless he does something special today and someone craps their pants before a decision has to be made (looking at you Marquis).

Back-to-back ESPN Sunday night games and I'll be watching this with one of my oldest friends who's visiting for a few days. I've tried not to hold it against him that he's a White Sox fan all these years. But sometimes I can't help it...

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Submitted by Jeff_Pico on Sun, 06/29/2008 - 06:52 pm

This game looks really, really bad on paper. I'm hoping for an exremely pleasant surprise from Marshall or a bad start from Buehrle, which he is sometimes capable of.

Submitted by The E-Man on Sun, 06/29/2008 - 06:15 pm

As I stated yesterday, I fully expect a sweep. The teams will split the series. We need reinforcements badly. Reed, Z, Fonzy, and another pitcher (a good pitcher).

Submitted by rokfish on Sun, 06/29/2008 - 06:41 pm

ya know how did i know cedeno would swing at first pitch bases loaded do ya think buerlie knew he would swing how many gams in a row has he started at least all 3 this series.

Submitted by Ryno on Sun, 06/29/2008 - 06:54 pm

These bullshit umps are the very reason why the subject of instant replay constantly come up in discussion. They've been terrible all weekend, too. I say f-them and their union. Bring in instant replay and bring back motherfucking questec.

Submitted by rokfish on Sun, 06/29/2008 - 06:14 pm

sox have definatly been getting outside of plate calls that homeplate ump has alot of balls throwing lou out whae his backis turned. but it is fun reading lou lips.

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Submitted by crunch on Sun, 06/29/2008 - 06:23 pm

if lou didnt come out to the 1st base ump and blow up about the zone he wouldn't have been tossed. you can't just charge the field and then start questioning the call on the game and have it technically not count cuz you're not bitching at the guy who was doing it (which is the guy he should be bitching at anyway). lou did something stupid and now he gets to take a shower. there were plenty of ways to deal with that other than what he did, but given how explosively stupid it was it was probably just some reactionary stuff he wasn't thinking about...unless this is another one of his "i decided next time i saw..." things. he hasn't been prone to those like in the past, though. 1st base ump gets a solid add to the "wtf umps?!?!" list after that call that almost got tram tossed. geez.

Submitted by billybucks on Sun, 06/29/2008 - 06:08 pm

Poll question: At the end of this road trip, what place will the Cubs be in? 2nd seems the most likely (after they get swept in St. Louis), but 3rd is not out of the question. About to lose their 6th straight road game.....Grow some balls, gentlemen -- they will come in handy.

Submitted by Andrew on Sun, 06/29/2008 - 06:38 pm

The Cubs did nothing this series to ease the concerns about this team that I stated after the blowout loss in the Baltimore finale. For some reason, this Sox series had a kind of playoff air about it - good opposing lineup, decent to good opposing pitching, great bullpen. And the Cubs responded about as well to all that as they did last October. Ah, well. Better luck on the Bay.

Submitted by billybucks on Sun, 06/29/2008 - 06:40 pm

Last weekend: A-Ram is 6-for-13, kills the Sox. This weekend: 0-for-13, can't get the tying run in from 3rd yesterday. His home/road split is huge -- about 100 points difference in BA. Weird.

Submitted by The E-Man on Sun, 06/29/2008 - 06:50 pm

- SIGH - I called this sweep before yesterday's game. They just cannot continue with Cedeno, Fontenot, DWard, a hurt Edmonds, and the over-matched, inconsistent pitchers w/out Big Z. DLee also has to figure it out again. Or, bat 6th. Fukudome looks terrible, for a while... Hopefully, we'll get it together.

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Submitted by The E-Man on Sun, 06/29/2008 - 06:44 pm

Fukudome is hitting lefties ok, I guess, but he looks SO bad when he K's, and he has come up in many key situations in the last 10 days and just utterly flopped. With two outs, and RISP, he is batting .194. DLee is went 5 for 5 - Yes. After eclipsing last year's GIDP totals from all of 2007. Are you watching the GAMES, or only the ones you want to talk about? Edmonds is injured. He IS our hottest hitter, but needs a break. We do NOT have a replacement for the platoon guy who is in alot of pain trying to run the bases. The guy is 38! I'll step off the ledge when the team manages to stop getting swept, or can learn how to get back to a .500 team on the road. I can only assume with the DL folks coming back to the team soon, the Cubs SHOULD be able to kick it up a notch again. And the pitching during the last week has sucked.

Submitted by blockhead25 on Sun, 06/29/2008 - 06:56 pm

That was a nice serving of humble pie. Some thoughts: - Lou knew exactly what he was doing and wanted to try to get his player riled up a bit. He knew he was getting tossed there. - What's the old adage about making sure a ball gets through the infield before you get too far off the base? That's just bad baseball....twice. - Our bullpen is starting to scare me big time...make that our whole pitching staff. Way too many 2 out or 2 strike mistakes.

Submitted by Jeff_Pico on Sun, 06/29/2008 - 06:07 pm

I think we are going against the right team at the right time with the Giants coming up and facing Zito on Monday. We take 3 out of 4 from the Giants and I'm confident we can be in first place at the All Star break. Its not going to be easy but I think they can do it. Little by little Soriano, Zambrano and Johnson will come back the team will be alot better for it.

Submitted by billybucks on Sun, 06/29/2008 - 06:13 pm

I think Lou and Jimbo need to have a conversation about Murton. This is simply ridiculous -- unless he was either sent down or traded before the game (?), or some team is looking closely at Cedeno, it makes no sense for him not to start tonight. Murton's no great outfielder, but he's better than Derosa. He's no offensive dynamo, but he's better than Cedeno. Makes no sense.

Submitted by big_lowitzki on Sun, 06/29/2008 - 06:16 pm

BTW... while is sucks to be swept by the Sox, the Cubs couldn't catch a break. They had several balls hit very hard right at guys today. They got screwed by a couple of bad calls. It happens. They will be fine. I am not sure why anyone really takes the results of a Cubs/Sox seriously anyway. They played in such an atmosphere that they are somewhat meaningless in terms of how we can use the games to analyze the team.

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Submitted by billybucks on Mon, 06/30/2008 - 06:34 am

I woke up in the same mood. Big HRs by the likes of Alexi Ramirez (somebody check the bat) and Brian Anderson, too many Cub line drives caught by Sox infielders, a cold 3 games for Aramis and Dempster's first bad outing of the year add up to a sweep. Still like Ascanio's arm -- a bad pitch to Thome, but he has hit a few of those in his career. Also, Ceda has cranked it up since returning to the pen and getting moved up to AA -- 8.2 IP, 1 ER, 2 BB and 15Ks. The young power arms will help. Sox have a good team -- power, good starters and a very good bullpen. A Chicago WS is not out of the question.

Submitted by Dmac on Mon, 06/30/2008 - 06:12 am

I don't get all the doom and gloom - Marshall gave you a good start yesterday, and Gallagher righted himself during the 7th the day before. No falling apart with either of them, and both were pressure games. Good things sometimes are hard to see when they first appear, take heart.

Recent comments

  • crunch (view)

    welcome back happ!  double off the wall 1st PA back.

  • crunch (view)

    oh yeah, totally, i was just chiming about why i fan like i fan.

    i would like nothing more than hendricks to keep on hendricks'ing.  guys with his stuff can throw for a long, long time as long as it works.

    he velocity is actually up a minor amount this year.  it's really "damn" when a guy like him not only has gas in the tank, but it's looking like it was years ago.  he added a curve a few years ago and it helped a little bit, but he's throwing it less and less while the fb/change combo are less effective.

  • Alexander Dimm (view)

    CRUNCH—There is no one person in this community I’m talking about.  My remarks were not directed at you or anyone, but at a tone I’ve noticed lately. 

    You have a great, dry sense of humor and there is thought behind your comments.   You and I don’t always agree but I always understand your position.  

    Lastly, and I’ll be quiet, I agree with you on Hendricks.  We can dislike the recent performance but still love the guy.  Lots of questions about his future.
     

  • crunch (view)

    myself, i make a good amount of outrageously unrealistic comments that are sometimes "violent"...like my recent suggestion of "pulling the bandaid off" by having hendricks throw every inning of every game until he's on the IL.

    i would hope any athlete that cares about what is written on the internet realizes how casual fans can be about treating their lives like scripted TV characters that don't have real lives.  it's not an excuse to do it, but there's a lot of it out there.

    but yeah, in real life i'm rooting for guys to have long and healthy careers even if i'm not happy with current performances...except for some guys...and i'm pretty sure i don't leave grey area for those comments...and almost all of them are not good humans whether they're playing baseball or not...

    hendricks was getting a good amount of boos in his last game.  i would bet a million that he will get a standing O every time he visits wrigley in his post-playing days, or a return with a new team should his career continue...or if he comes back and puts in an oldschool good performance.

  • Alexander Dimm (view)

    What are the chances we can back off on gloating over other people’s misfortune?  One of the things I appreciate about the TCR community is that the remarks are more productive and add to how I like to follow the game.  

    Lately, however, I’m reading comments that are just mean.  If I were an MLB player, I would hate to get a back or finger injury and have someone write ‘hurrah!  I hope we never see him again!’  Especially when it is someone we were praising not long ago.  I’m not saying ‘don’t express how you feel’ but some comments lately seem downright mean spirited.  Stuff I expect from other communities but don’t often see here.  The TCR community has always spoken the truth but never with such a dark tone.

    Just my two cents.  I hope Hendricks comes back and is the professor we all know. He can pitch for the Cubs as long as he wants in my book.  

  • crunch (view)

    happ is back (and starting), mervis DH, tauchman gets RF.

    morel 5th in the lineup.  hoerner continues to lead off, even vs a righty.

  • George Altman (view)

    I don't care to see Hendricks or Smyly on the 26-man Roster the rest of the season. Both, stupid signings and option pick up by Jed. 

  • crunch (view)

    i know the cubs are paying the guys, but for the sake of the win/loss column this is some great news.

    woo!  people getting injured!  kick ass!

    sportsball is cruel.

    would have liked to keep cooper, but it looks like they're gonna go with wisdom if they have to pick a righty who's gonna K 1/3rd of his PA's.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    Edwards would be my guess, or maybe they’re hoping Sanders or R Thompson can finally figure it out 

  • Cubster (view)

    So it’s Mervis, Wesn and Little for Cooper, Hendricks and Smyly. Count me in. Starting rotation for now: Taillon, Imanaga, Wicks, Assad and Brown-Wesn. Eventually Steele. 

    Lineup

    Hoerner, Happ, Bellinger, Busch, Morel, Swanson, Tauchman, Mervis, Amaya.

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