Game 108 Thread / Cubs @ Brewers (3 of 4)
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SP | Ryan Dempster |
SP |
*Manny Parra |
11-4, 2.99, 117 K, 57 BB, 138.2 IP |
9-3, 3.72, 92 K, 54 BB, 113.2 IP | ||
LF | Alfonso Soriano |
2B | #Ray Durham |
SS | Ryan Theriot | SS | J.J. Hardy |
1B |
Derrek Lee | LF |
Ryan Braun |
3B |
Aramis Ramirez | 1B |
*Prince Fielder |
CF |
Reed Johnson |
RF | Corey Hart |
2B | Mark DeRosa | 3B | Bill Hall |
RF | *Kosuke Fukudome | CF | Mike Cameron |
C | Henry Blanco | C | Jason Kendall |
P |
Ryan Dempster | P | *Manny Parra |
The Cubs were able to secure wins over the Brewers big two, and now the Brewers will try and retaliate amidst our big three. Dempster goes for back-to-back road wins for the first time in seven years and looks to draw even with Zambrano for the team lead with twelve wins. A win for the Cubs tonight would also put them back up to twenty games over .500, which is a neat little number. Dempster will have to watch out for Ray Durham and Jason Kendall, both of whom are sporting OPS's over 1.000 against him over their careers.
It'll be Manny Parra for the Brewers, who I suppose makes the third leg of the Brewers troika (TCR word of the week sponsored by Motorola) of starting pitchers. He survived a brutal April and is 8-2 with a 3.40 ERA since the beginning of May. He has one career start versus the Cubs last August and lasted only three innings after giving up three runs in the second.
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