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Game 19 Recap: Cubs 11, Diamondbacks 3
Easy Win
W - Zambrano (2-1)
L - Petit (0-2), Kryptonite, Mortals.
Things to Take from This Game
1. Z. Pitches
Not so much a dominant game from Z as a comfortable game. Zambrano walked two and K'd three, working one weakly hit ball after another. Only in the seventh did the "scattering" of eight hits result in a serious rally, and by then the game was out of reach.
2. Z. Hits
Zambrano had arguable the two hardest-hit balls of the night, with a lined shot of a double to very-deep right-center and an opposite-field home run, as well as a single.
3. Others Hit
Soriano had the first and biggest blow, a three-run homer in the third, followed by a Fontenot two-run shot in the fourth. Koyie Hill continued his good start to the season, with three hits, and Bradley looked good with a couple of lined singles and a walk. Soriano in particular looked locked in, just barely missing a leadoff homerun and patiently letting Petit pitch around him for a walk in another at-bat.
The never-in-doubt details, below.
Game Recap
Inning 1 - Top
- First pitch swinging, Soriano hits one 413 feet to right center. Flyout. Damn.
- Theriot chops one up the middle, Felipe Lopez makes the throw to first. Two outs.
- The railing padding on the visitors' dugout protective fence is brought to you by Lone Buttes casino. Heh. Lone Buttes.
- Fukudome walks.
- Fukudome tries to steal, Montero makes a nice throw and gets Fukudome. End of inning.
Inning 1 - Bottom
- Z starts Lopez 3-1.fastball down the middle, Lopez lines one to deep center. Fukudome took a wrong turn on the ball, and it one-hops the wall for a double. Tough read, Brenly thinks it had a lot of slice on it.
- It does my heart good to know that Augie Ojeda still is employed as a Major League Baseball player.
- 3-1 on Ojeda, who's trying to bunt. Fastball, 3-2 count.
- Ojeda grounds one up the middle, 6-3 with Lopez going to third.
- and Tracy walks on four pitches. Egads.
- 3-1 on Reynolds. No control on the slider so far tonight
- Parachat points out that Len and Bob are sounding very subdued tonight. True, it's sort of odd.
- Roller to Theriot, Miles' throw just does compete the 6-4-3 double play. Nice escape by Z.
Inning 2 - Top
- Hoffpauir hits one 407 feet. Another flyout to center. Nuts.
- Bradley swings and misses at a change up inside, strikeout.
- Yet another warning-track flyout, as Fontenot hits one deep the opposite way to left-center. Inning over.
Inning 2 - Bottom
- Jackson flies to Fukudome in straight-away center, just short of the warning track. Lots of near-misses so far, on both sides
- Z gets his 1200th K (of his career, not this game, to dust off the old Sportscenter joke) when Chris Young stares at a slider
- and Wow, no sooner do I write the joke than Brenly says it. Uncanny.
- Montero rolls to Hoffpauir, unassisted
Inning 3 - Top
- Hill K's looking. Yusmeiro Petit is not this good.... Then again, the one game I saw at Wrigley last year, he beat us.
- Miles singles to straight-away center.
- Z shoots one through the 6-5 hole for a single. Miles to second.
- Soriano takes a rolling slider and lines one over the left-center wall, 3-run homer. 3-0 Cubs.
- Full count, Theriot takes a fastball low and away for the walk.
- Fukudome pops a curveball into shallow right-center. Young and Upton are playing deep, no one gets a great break on it, and it fall in for a hit.
- Hoffpauir grounds into the 6-4-3.
Inning 3 - Bottom
- Upton pops one down the left-field line for an out.
- Petit with a soft liner to Miles, who also makes a nice hop-catch.
- Heh, Len references the you-tube of Gathright jumping over a car. Len says he also does Ozzie Smith-like backflips.
- Lopez lines a single to right.
- Ojeda lines a slicing single to center, runners at 1 and 2.
- Tracy rolls into an easy 6-4 force.
Inning 4 - Top
- Bradley reaches down and lines a fastball into right for a single.
- Fontenot lines a homer over the right-field fence. Looks like a fastball that tailed back over the plate. Just a few feet short of the swimming pool. 5-0 Cubs.
- Hill lines one to the right of Lopez, into center for a single
- Full count to Miles, Hill is running. Miles bounces into a 4-3 force.
- Z also rolls into a 4-3, Hill to third.
- Soriano not nibbling as they pitch around him. Another slider off the corner, and he takes first base.
- Theriot lines a single to center, scoring Soriano. Petit out, Rauch in. 6-0 Cubs.
- Jon Rauch is enormous.
- Nice shot of how much space Rauch's number takes up on the back of his jersey, compared to Ojeda's
- 3-2 to Fukudome. A ton of curves so far from Rauch.
- Fukudome walks. Bases loaded for Hoffpauir.
- Hofpauir lines a sharp single to right, scoring Theriot. Upton makes a nice throw to home, limiting everyone to a single base. 7-0 Cubs
- Bradley with a slow roller to Lopez, 4-3, inning over.
Inning 4 - Bottom
- Reynolds lines a double down the left-field line. It one-hops the wall, hits it at an angle and bounces up into the stands. A weird consequence of the weird angles in the outfield fence.
- Jackson can't advance the runner, bouncing out to Fontenot at third.
- Chris Young lines one just out of Soriano's reach down the left-field line for a double. 7-1 Cubs
- Montero with a lazy fly to Soriano.
- Wickedest pitch of the night, a sharp slider with lots of horizontal movement, Upton swings for strike 2. Now a full count, and Upton flies out to Fukudome.
Inning 5 - Top
- Fontenot K's swinging.
- Hill breaks his bat and dumps a single just over Ojeda, into shallow left-center.
- Miles flies out to center
- Zambrano smokes a liner to deep right-center, hitting off the top of the wall. Hill scores. Maybe the hardest hit ball of the night. 8-1 Cubs
- Soriano dumps a single into center, scoring Z. 9-1 Cubs
- Theriot looks at a called strike three inside, and is none too happy about it.
Inning 5 - Bottom
- Papa Trans calls, but looking at the TV indicates that Z had a very quick and easy inning, 1-2-3.
Inning 6 - Top
- Papa Trans still on the phone, but Esmerling Vasquez is in to pitch, and Fukudome walks on four straight.
- Hoffpauir with a slow chopper to first, 3-6 force.
- and Bradley walks. Vasquez looks like Juan Cruz, except isn't very good.
- Fontenot flies out to deep left.
- Hill with a nice inside-out swing, lines a single to left to score Hoffpauir. 10-1 Cubs
- Miles with a weak pop to left-center, Young grabs it.
Inning 6 - Bottom
- Tracy with a soft fly out to Soriano
- Reynolds squibs one to first, 3-1 putout.
- Z not striking anyone out, but coaxing lots of weak contact.
- Jackson walks on an inside fastball Z sitting around 90 mph tonight, thought that one was clocked at 93.
- A sharp slider, Young K's looking.
Inning 7 - Top
- Incredible. Z hits an opposite-field home run. He stays on a fastball away, and after making contact, just sort of watches it for a bit before going into the trot. Just did get out, but still a hell of a poke to the opposite field. 11-1 Cubs, and Z needs a triple to hit for the cycle.
- Soriano flies to right.
- Theriot K's swinging at a high fastball
- Gathright hitting for Fukudome, rolls out to second.
Inning 7 - Bottom
- Reed Johnson in for Soriano
- Montero singles to left-center
- Upton singles to right-center, Bradley cuts it off but Montero goes to third.
- Josh Wilson must have come in for Ojeda on a double-switch with Vazquez came in to pitch, and he singles to Johnson in left, driving in Montero. Z not getting hit hard, so much as the hits are falling in. 11-2 Cubs
- Lopez with a soft bouncer, Miles charges and goes to first, 4-3 putout. Run scores, 11-3 Cubs
- Ryan Roberts (who?!?!) pinch-hits for Vasquez. Bounces out to Miles. Wilson to second.
- LouPa checks on Z, but he stays in the game. Tracy promptly flies to shallow left-center, where Gathright makes a nice running catch.
Inning 8 - Top
- Schoenweis in, Hoffpauir grounds to Roberts, who is playing second.
- Bradley, hitting right-handed, singles back up the middle.
- Fontenot hits into a 6-4 force, beating the throw at first to avoid the double play.
- And hill rolls out, 4-3.
Inning 8 - Bottom
- Guzman in to pitch.
- Reynolds flies into foul territory down the right-field line, Bradley makes the catch.
- Jackson rolls a single into right.
- Young pops out to Miles. Another weak AB for young
- Montero shoots one to Fontenot's right at third base, it hits off the heel of his glove for a single, runners at 1 and 3.
- Ted Lilly has managed to sneak a gigantic moth onto the top of hitting coach Gerald Perry's hat. Pretty funny.
- And Upton with an easy fly to center.
Inning 9 - Top
- Tom Gordon's Fossilized Bones in to pitch.
- Miles rolls to first, unassisted
- And Guzman does the same.
- Johnson chops one to third, inning over.
Inning 9 - Bottom
- Wilson grounds to miles
- Tony Clark in to pinch hit, and K's swinging.
- Roberts walks.
- and Tracy K's swinging. Two pretty easy innings for Guzman to close out the game.
Parachat Recap
Inning 1
- Some other sport is having playoff games. Meh.
- Things we know about Tom Skilling
- Fake-buckers.
- Juan Cruz is thin.
- Except where it counts.
- Len and Bob seem to be having a quiet night. Why?
Inning 2
- Complaining about other sports
- Getting updates about those stupid other sports
- Racists.
- Mister Whipple loves me.
- Parachat goes bilingual
Inning 3
- Crunch's pee and poop-based method of communication.
- Admiring a nacho-eating fan.
- Sweating.
- What is the sound of.....
- Give Ron Santo a catch phrase
- Old-timers night in Parachat.
- mlb.tv's miserable product
Inning 4
- Getting off the lawn.
- The RIAA
- More RIAA discussion. It's suddenly like 2001 again, in Parachat.
- Live Nation
- Pork
- Ice Cream
- Nerds and Fouls
- We still can't stop talking about Corey Patterson
- Or Pork.
- What's on the tip of your tongue?
- Student Bodies.
- oh my.
- oh, it's a movie, I'm told.
- oh my.
- Student Bodies.
Inning 5
- Donk
- Killed by paperclips
- We love Koyie Hill.
Inning 6
- Mercifully, being on the phone with Papa Trans lets me avoid the worst of discussions about "nasty chicks." Hooray for avoiding the parachat Misogynistic Moment (tm.)
- Jason Kendall and the CDC.
- What does Kendall get us?
- The Juan Pierre trade
Inning 7
- A horrible, horrible, marmalade vs. jam joke.
- The Kings of Leon
- Goya
- The Goat People
- We don't like Karl Ravech
- Deep fantasy leagues
- Oh come on, we're making Rosie O'Donnell jokes? Have we really sunk to such depths? What happened to the vaunted parachat creativity?
Inning 8
- Influenze
- Vaccines
- Sugar
- Hating Iowa
- Rewarding Child-Care with sex.
- Racist Elmer Fudd
- Putting funny things on other peoples' hats.
Inning 9
- Does Tom Gordon look like Donovan McNabb?
- No.
- Things we know about our local True Value stores
- Grouting Tile.
Cubs record in games recapped moves to 2-1.
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