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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

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

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Cody Bellinger 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 12 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Luke Little, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 
Hayden Wesneski, P 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Seiya Suzuki, OF

15-DAY IL: 
* Justin Steele, P   

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




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Game 147 Thread / Cubs @ Astros (kinda), (1 of 2)

Submitted by Cubnut on

[Updated 10:40 by ruz]: Whoooooooo!!!!!!! 

Game Chat | Press Pass | BR Preview

SP Carlos Zambrano
 SP *Randy Wolf

13-5, 3.58, 117 K, 64 BB, 173.1 IP
10-11, 4.45, 146 K, 67 BB, 174 IP
       
LF
 Alfonso Soriano
 LF
 *Darin Erstad
SS
 Ryan Theriot
 CF *Michael Bourn
1B Derrek Lee
 SS
Miguel Tejada
3B Aramis Ramirez
 1B
 #Lance Berkman
C
 Geovany Soto
 3B #Geoff Blum
RF Mark DeRosa RF Hunter Pence
CF Reed Johnson
 2B *David Newhan
2B
 Ronny Cedeno
 C Humberto Quintero
P #Carlos Zambrano
 P *Randy Wolf

 

About 72 hours and one hurricane ago, the Cubs held on to beat the Cardinals, 3-2, and extend their NL Central lead over the Brewers to 5 1/2 games. As the Cubs and Astros take the field tonight at Miller Park, where they have been driven by Hurricane Ike, the Cubs' lead is 6 1/2, and the Brewers are desperately trying to hold off the Phillies and Astros for the Wild Card lead.

The Astros, who must surely have many other things on their minds right now besides baseball, have won six in a row and 14 of their last 15 to claw back into post-season contention. (They were 11 games behind the Brewers as recently as 8/27.) One of the highlights of the hot streak, and one of the lowlights of the Cubs season, was the three-game sweep the Astros pulled off at Wrigley, beginning on Labor Day. Randy Wolf, tonight's Houston starter, was the winning pitcher in the series finale, throwing a complete game shutout in one of the better efforts of his career.

Carlos Zambrano returns to action tonight, having been sent to the sidelines 12 days ago with shoulder tendinitis. Z's last start, against this same Houston club in that same nasty series at Wrigley Field, only lasted five innings before he asked to come out.

Funny pre-game note via Gordon Wittenmyer's Twitter feed:

Astros sticking it to Cubs by every means possible -- including forcing the less familiar, bigger, nicer home clubhouse on them. 

Rob G. Update: Apologies for the server crash or whatever it was this afternoon...should be fixed now.

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Comments

Submitted by Indiana JJ on Sun, 09/14/2008 - 09:53 pm

I would just like to say a few words... FUCK YOU MLB. FUCK YOU ESPN. FUCK YOU WGN. First Cubs no-hitter in my life and I don't get to see it except for last three outs. Oh well at least they didn't jinx it like every other time I've been watching ESPN and they cut to someones no-no bid.

Submitted by jacos on Sun, 09/14/2008 - 09:03 pm

Some random thoughts and sights I was wondering if one of the Cubs would sneek into Brewers clubhouse and take a dump in Fielder's locker. I'm sick I know. When bullpen ran into celebrate one of the rookie pitchers had the pink back pack with the gum and seeds with him and brought to the mound. LOL Z postgame interview with WGN- -he knew Milt Pappas was last Cub pitcher to throw no hitter, said Pappas tells him at every Cub convention that he would be the next one to do it -Len then gave Z the stage and Z said " I want to thank the Lord," and then Z stared into the camera " and the next stage is to win the World Series." Amen.

Submitted by Cubster on Sun, 09/14/2008 - 09:26 pm

Looks like Z appreciates 12 days rest. Awesome performance. ex-cub reliever update: Winning pitcher in the phils game one, Scott Eyre. Scotty was our secret weapon. Kyle Farnsworth blows up, gives up a grand slam to DeWayne Wise after the Tigers staged a comeback with a GS by Marcus Thames. Farnsy, still pulling the same shit.

Submitted by artskoe on Sun, 09/14/2008 - 09:50 pm

If this game had been played in Houston, yeah, maybe the same result, but the coolest thing is that it was played in Milwaukee. Since I live in Texas, for some stupid reason known only to Selig, all Astros games - home and away - are blacked out by MLBTV.com for my zip code. I live in Rangers territory. BUT since it was in Milwaukee, for some reason they allowed me to watch it. Now I have seen the last 2 no-hitters in Cubs History, this one from my comfy 'puter' (as Bozo would have said) chair, and Milt Pappas' in person with my now deceased Dad in '72! Go CUBS!!! Way to go Z!!

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  • Raisin101 (view)

    Hi Arizona Phil!

    Exciting to see Naz Mule in box scores a few times. What's his stuff like now after the TJS?

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Mastrobuoni can't come back, yet

    Wisdom does have an option left. He can hide in Iowa if Jed DFA's someone else

    Does Brennan Davis get shown the door? I know it's too early for that, but these injuries are crunching the roster of a 12-7 team playoff demands and BDavis isn't going to help anytime soon.

    Someone has to go to add Peralta. And Canario isn't going to get to play everyday regardless of RHers or LHers. Neither is Tauchman. Also don't see PCA getting a chance over Peralta.

    If Jed does those moves:

    4 OF: Belli, Peralta, Canny, Tauch

    2 C: Gomes and Amaya

    2 DH: Cooper and Mervis

    5 INF: Busch, Nico, Dansby, Morel, Madrigal

    Little short on OF depth but two injuries will do that  

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    I have had the pleasure of watching some of the young A's pitchers lately (first Joe Boyle the last day of Minor League Spring Training in March, and more recently Luis Morales last week and Steven Echavarria yesterday at Extended Spring Training), and it reminds me of the Miami Marlins a couple of years ago. A really nice collection of young pitchers. It will be interesting to see what the A's will get for two years of ex-Cub Paul Blackburn at the Trade Deadline (there should be a robust market for Blackburn). 

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Good deal

    MB needs some talent infusion!

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Childersb3: Very possible. Suriel, too. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    DJL: if a pitcher is recalled to be the 27th man for a doubleheader and then is optioned back to the minors the next day, the 15-day "clock" does NOT reset. The one day call-up for the doubleheader is treated like it never happened with respect to a pitcher having to spend at least 15 days on optional assignment before he can be recalled. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Probably the only reason David Peralta is still in the organization (he is at AAA Iowa) is to be available in case anything bad were to happen to Ian Happ (which it just did). So if Happ needs to go on the IL, the Cubs can select Peralta to play LF, DFA Wisdom (and hope he and what remains of his $2.725M salary gets claimed off waivers), and recall Mervis to platoon at DH with Cooper (with Canario / Tauchman sharing RF), at least until Suzuki and Happ are back...

     

  • crunch (view)

    i'd just like to take a moment to express to the world i'm still pissed willson contreras is not a cub when the pricetag was 5/87m (17.5m/yr).

    it would be nice to have a legacy-type player to stick around, especially one with his leadership and the respect he gets from his peers.  cubs fans deserved more than 1 season of contreras + morel...that was gold.

  • crunch (view)

    happ, right hamstring tightness, day-to-day (hopefully 0 days).

    he will be reevaluated tomorrow.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    I guess I'm not looking for that type of AB 

    Just a difference of opinion

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