Break Out The Brooms (Again) Cubs Sweep Bucs (Again)

The offense was out in the final two games of the second series in as many weeks against the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Cubs got wins from Rich HIll (in the first game) and Jason Marquis (in the second) for their first wins of the season. Dempster continued his strong start to the season with his third win (of course it's his second against Pittsburgh, so you should probably take that into account) in the third game.

The Cubs scored 13 in each of the last two games (13-1 on Sat, 13-6 on Sun) and won a close one to start the series off right (3-2).

With the win today along with losses by the Cardinals and Brewers means that the Cubs have taken their rightful place at the top of the Central Division (look for the standings tomorrow).

Friday's Games.

Saturday's Games.

Today's Games.

LWIB

Milestones near for two big league batters.

Manny being Manny is now 4 homeruns away from 500 and Junior is 4 homeruns away from 600.

Manny Ramirez and Ken Griffey Jr look to reach milestones soon and continue what has a trend last season (Big Hurt hit his 500th as did Jim Thome, Sammy hit his 600th, and Tom Glavine got his 300th win, also there was a rumor about someone passing Hank Aaron for most homeruns ever, but I'm not sure that it actually occured. Surely if it did, some stadium would have momentos representing that event right? Like the stadium where the player that acheived it played, right?)

Speaking of the Big Hurt, the Toronto Blue Jays released him a day after telling him that his playing time would be greatly reduced, eliciting a bit of a complaint from the future hall of famer.

These will definately be interesting stories to follow. I think that Frank Thomas still has a lot to offer (most likely as a DH in the AL, but if he'd accept it, he'd be a hell of a player off of the bench for anybody). This week should also get us a little closer to milestones and if either player gets really hot, one of them could reach a milestone this week.

Tomorrow the Cubs take on the Mets.