The Cubs won for their franchise's 9,999th time yesterday putting them one win away from 10,000 victories which only one other club can claim, the New York/San Fransisco Giants.
Despite coming into the game with a left hander who was 0-3 with an ERA over 9 this season (and a blown 7-0 lead on his resume for this year) against a team that was 8-1 while batting .300 against lefthanders so far this season, The Cubs won another game that was close early and a laugher late.
Ted Lilly finally reminded us why we loved him so much last year as he gave up only one run through 6 well pitched innings.
The Cubs (and Reed Johnson) took advantage of a bases loaded situation early in the game to build a 4-1 advantage.
In the bottom of the 8th (where the Cubs scored 5 runs in game one of this series) they loaded them up again. Ronnie Cedeno, who got the rbi hit to start the run scoring in the 8th the day before, just took care of all of them by himself yesterday hitting his first career grand slam to run the lead to 8-1 where it would finish.
The Cubs remain one game behind the Diamondbacks for the best record in the Majors, but their 14-6 start is their best through 20 games since 1975 (meaning, incidently, that this is the best the Cubs have ever started in my lifetime).
They are on a 5 game winning streak, and just completed a 7-1 homestand.
In the past 4 games the offense has come alive and the pitching has been mostly spectacular.
They have won the past four games by scores of 13-1, 13-6, 7-1, and 8-1.
Here are the rest of yesterday's games.
Today the Cubs face the reigning NL Champs. Rich Hill looks for his second consecutive strong start as he'll be facing Franklin Morales who has struggled so far pitching only 15 innings in his first 3 starts giving up 11 runs and 11 walks in those 15 innings.
For those of you mourning the in depth posts of the recent past, know that I plan to go back to that, but things are picking up at both of my jobs hindering my blogging ability for the moment, so until those posts return...
Enjoy today's games.
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