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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Hector Neris 
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
Hayden Wesneski 
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

INFIELDERS: 7
* Michael Busch 
Nico Hoerner
Nick Madrigal
Christopher Morel
* Matt Mervis
Dansby Swanson
Patrick Wisdom

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Pete Crow-Armstrong 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 8 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 2
* Cody Bellinger, OF  
Seiya Suzuki, OF

15-DAY IL: 3
Kyle Hendricks, P 
* Drew Smyly, P 
* Justin Steele, P   

60-DAY IL: 2 
Caleb Kilian, P 
Julian Merryweather, P

DFA: 1 
Garrett Cooper, 1B 
 




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Game Thread: Rockies (19-19) @ Cubs (17-22)

Submitted by Cubnut on

The Cubs go for a third consecutive win and try to close out the homestand at 4-4 before they get the crap beaten out of them in Philadelphia as they match-up with the Rockies.

Jhoulys Chacin (yo-LEES cha-SEEN), 2-1, 2.66, goes up against Carlos Silva (CAR-los SIL-va). Silva, 4-0, 3.40, is attempting to become the first Cub pitcher to begin a season 5-0 since Greg Maddux did so back in 2006.

Big news: Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor will be in the house. She is scheduled to be part of the home plate ceremony with the umpires before the game and appear with Kasper and Brenly on Comcast Sportsnet during the 3rd inning.

No appearance scheduled with Santo and Hughes in the radio booth as far as I can tell. For obvious reasons, that's a loss to WGN listeners and fans of unintentional comedy everywhere.

Looking at the lineups, Soriano will rest in favor of Colvin, while Ryan Theriot and his very sore elbow return to action.

Rockies:
Gonzalez 8, Smith 7, Hawpe 9, Tulowitzki 6, Helton 3, Olivo 2, Stewart 5, Barmes 4, Chacin 1

Cubs:
Fukudome 9, Theriot 4, Lee 3, Ramirez 5, Byrd 8, Colvin 7, Soto 2, Castro 6, Silva 1

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Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 05/18/2010 - 05:04 pm

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100518&content_id=10166458&vk…
"We'll put him back in his usual habitat, and that's starting baseball games and we'll go from there," manager Lou Piniella said on Tuesday of Zambrano, who was the Cubs' Opening Day starter. "I just don't know how long it'll take, and I told Carlos to be honest with me and let me know when he's ready."
How eager is Zambrano to start again? On Tuesday, he was taking batting practice with the other Cubs starting pitchers.
and this lineups sucks.

Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 05/18/2010 - 05:07 pm

Phillies down 2-1 in the 7th...they pinch-hit for Juan Castro batting 8th and Dobbs reaches first base. With one out, they don't pitch hit for Halladay who K's (I assume he was trying to sac bunt) and end up not scoring.

Submitted by The E-Man on Tue, 05/18/2010 - 05:40 pm

Boy, that Carlos Silva. He sure is lucky! You go, you "Lucky Dude", you! Sould he get another "lucky" W tonight, I stand by my words that Silva and Byrd are the Cub MVP's so far. An odd thing, indeed.

Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 05/18/2010 - 05:45 pm

Lindsey Vonn in the booth with Ron and Pat, they asked if she's been to Wrigley before. "yeah, I stopped by and visited but I guess I wasn't a gold medalist back then." awkward laughter follows.....

Submitted by mjmiller73 on Wed, 05/19/2010 - 05:02 am

That entire 7th inning made me feel... wrong. Maybe it was Bob's figgets... maybe it was Len's... maybe her singing...or maybe, it was all of it. But in the end... wrong.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 05/19/2010 - 05:17 am

She also won three consecutive overall World Cup championships (2008, 2009, 2010),[2] the first American woman and second woman ever to accomplish this. Lindsey also won World Cup discipline championships in downhill (back-to-back) and Super G (the first American woman to do so).
With her Olympic gold and bronze medals, 33 World Cup wins in four disciplines (downhill, Super G, slalom and super combined) and two World Championship gold medals (plus two World Championship silver medals), Vonn has become the most successful American woman skier in history.
OVERRATED! /sarcasm She does look good in hi and low-def.

Submitted by Ryno on Wed, 05/19/2010 - 05:20 am

Carlos Silva is an important lesson for Zambrano, imo. Z's stuff is what, 10-15 times better than Silva's, yet Silva goes out there and throws strikes and presto... 5-0 record. It's like little league. Just throw strikes, bro. Unless you are Kevin Gregg, in which case you might want to nibble.

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Submitted by Doug Dascenzo on Wed, 05/19/2010 - 05:43 pm

Yes I am already pleasantly surprised. My point was I will be surprised (pleasantly) if he continues to pitch at this level the rest of the year. Ya know, regression to the mean and all that. Simply comparing the average ERAs of the AL and NL isn't really conclusive either because the pitchers and hitters are different. Regardless of where you fall on the notion that the AL is generally better than the NL (lately), you have to admit that having pitchers bat in the NL makes it slightly easier for pitching and defense.

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Submitted by Rob Richardson on Wed, 05/19/2010 - 05:40 pm

I wasn't suggesting anything. I only asked a question. "How much of Silva's success can we attribute to him pitching in the National League?" I brought up Halladay because he is another pitcher who switched leagues in the off sesaon who has seen his ERA drop a full point. Of course in both (all) cases there are many factors of which changing leagues is one of them. I believe it is you who said that making assumptions on two (or in this case one) pieces of data can lead one to make an erronious conclusion.

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