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Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
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Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
Jameson Taillon 
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* Jordan Wicks

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Yan Gomes

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Nico Hoerner
Nick Madrigal
Christopher Morel
Dansby Swanson
Patrick Wisdom

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* Cody Bellinger 
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Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

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Jose Cuas, P 
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Porter Hodge, P 
* Luke Little, P
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Luis Vazquez, INF 
Hayden Wesneski, P 

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Cubs' Worst Game in, Oh, About 48 Hours: D-Backs 7, Cubs 2

Submitted by Cubnut on

The Cubs dropped their fourth game in five as Arizona's Dan Haren pitched a complete game, three-hitter to beat Ted Lilly, who just pitched like hell.

Why the Cubs lost: Aside from Alfonso Soriano's leadoff home run, Mike Fontenot's eighth-inning solo shot, and Lilly's third-inning single, the Cubs could do nothing against Haren.

On the mound, Lilly had little command of his breaking ball and it was painful to watch him try to steer his pitches over the plate. After walking but two hitters in his first 18 2/3 IP this season, the Cub lefty passed four men in his five innings Monday night. Worse, a number of the pitches that were in the strike zone got massacred, including one to Arizona catcher Chris Snyder (hitting just .094 coming into the game), that wound up 425 feet or so from home plate, in the seats beyond straightaway center field.

On defense, Fontenot, continuing to fill in for the injured Aramis Ramirez, looked awful, committing two errors, getting betrayed by his footwork on a routine ground ball (resulting in an "infield hit" for Justin Upton), and dropping the ball after what would have been a caught stealing on the Diamondbacks' Mark Reynolds in the early going. Fontenot also allowed a chopper hit by Haren to go over his head for a two-run double during the home team's decisive four-run, fourth-inning rally.

Speaking of caught stealing, the Diamondbacks weren't, not in five other attempts against the Lilly and Soto or David Patton and Soto batteries. Arizona seemed to come into this game determined to test Soto's balky right shoulder and the results for the Cubs on this night were dismal. I would think we can expect to see a lot more of this from Cub opponents in the near future.

On a positive note: Kosuke Fukudome gunned down Reynolds, attempting to score from third on a medium-deep fly ball. Fukudome threw the ball to Soto on the fly and Reynolds was tagged out without ever touching home plate. Also, Jeff Samardzija followed Patton to the hill and struck out two men in his one inning of work.

In honor of the Chicago Blackhawks, winners of their first-round playoff series against the Calgary Flames, here are your 3 stars of the game: Dan Haren, Dan Haren, and Dan Haren.

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Submitted by crunch on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 04:21 am

if theyre gonna play both miles and fontenot i still don't get why it's not miles at 3rd. miles may be a better 2nd than fontenot, but fontenot can play a good enough 2nd that having miles at 3rd isn't much of a downgrade at 2nd.

Submitted by Andrew on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 04:40 am

Bullet points: - Thus far, we haven't continued with our 2008 ability of beating the other team's best pitchers, or at least touching them for some runs in the early going. - I had thought Petit was starting today for AZ, so it's a bit more understandable that it was Haren that stifled the (as yet thoroughly unimpressive) offense, but still, these subpar offensive performances are starting to set a trend for the season. - Lilly's been very good before this -- maybe he was having trouble getting bite on his breaking stuff, but this is the danger of having a pitcher whose fastball is barely 90 mph. - I'm afraid that that the biggest downside of losing DeRosa and Wood will not be on the field but off the field leadership and clubhouse experience. This team seems to lack focus right now.

Submitted by Cubster on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 04:31 am

mlb scoreboard as of sunday had Y. Petit listed to pitch monday (and Haren tuesday) but I think they just had it wrong, hence Y. Petit Tuesday night. Useless factoid: Soriano career is 4-6 vs Petit. in the pregame, they said Bradley would start Tuesday night. He did pinch hit in the 8th but made no contact (swinging strike/curveball, called strike/curveball, called strike/fastball). Thankfully he didn't re-injure his groin, rib cage, hamstring or ACL. On the telecast, Len/Bob kept mentioning how abysmal the Cubs record is in Arizona. 14-27 (now 28)...not including 2 playoff losses. Sick. I saw two of those wins during the regular season in 2003, including a near no-no Zambrano took into the 8th. Misery loves company: Kerry Wood got the loss vs Boston last night giving up a 9th inning 3 run HR to Jason Bay. MLB gameday says it was on a 99 mph fastball. Eerily familiar to how things go bad when KW has an off night usually a HBP is in there somewhere on those nights.

Submitted by Jeff_Pico on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 04:37 am

Well I guess Dan Haren is going to shut any team down, let alone a team without its usual 3,4,and 5 hitters. We all pine for Derosa and Wood back, but as of right now, Derosa is hitting .200 and Wood has a 7.71 ERA...ouch. I'm hoping both of them start to turn the numbers around a bit. We need to get everyone healthy and get it going again, I want to get back to the days when our main concern was middle relief :) not a complete lack of hitting.

Submitted by Ryno on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 04:34 am

Ha, I don't know why I never noticed this, but Bobby Scales has one of those MLB blogs and it's called "30 is the new 20". Nice. Call up Bobby. He'll belt a few nice hits for the Cubs given the chance. Figures that the Cubs finally get a guy in AAA that I like and he turns out to be 31 years old.

Submitted by The E-Man on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 04:49 am

A IF that woulda helped this team, on the cheap: O-Dawg This puts Fontenot on the bench where he belongs, and Miles on someone else's team, where I'd be pleased. As AZ PHIL called it in March: "It's going to be a long season." I fail to see this as a Championship-caliber baseball team. Fuck you Hendry!

Submitted by mannytrillo on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 04:56 am

Ugly game. Errors. SB's. No hitting. I guess it shouldn't be a shocker with Reed Johnson as our cleanup hitter against a top tier pitcher like Haren. But still not fun to watch. The most important thing is to tread water and get healthy. We can't have Soto, Bradley, Lee, ARam banged up all year, so get them 100% and then bring them back to get this team whole and make somekind of run. But let's just hope we don't fall too far behind (already 4 back of STL).

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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