Saturday funnies: Travis Wood fails to break Cubs' pitching record.
Travis Wood allowed a home run in each of the first 5 innings of yesterdays latest loss to the St. Louis Cardinals, this one 6 to 9.
That tied some kind of record with the 5 consecutive innings, but it also tied a more personal team record of 5 homers allowed in the same game by a single Cub pitcher.
The others were Carlos Zambrano, Ismael Valdez, Steve Stone and Warren Hacker (who pitched for the Cubs from 1948 - 1956).
But there were signs of life yesterday, and the Cubs did score more runs than in the entire last series so, you know, not that bad for this year.
Anthony Rizzo, he looks like he puts about as much effort into his swing as it takes me to hit this "X" key.
Ready?
X
See how easy that was?
Only Rizzo's effort produces a number on the scoreboard at Wrigley and generates fabulous crowd excitement.
Mine's just a stupid X.
(I was searching for a subject for today's drawing, and found it here. Thanks Cubster!)
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