Monday, April 14, 2008

Phillies take the Series, but Cubs Avoid the Sweep (with some help from the Umps)

Game One-Friday
Cubs 3 Phillies 5

Zambrano got an early lead from back to back jacks by D Lee and A Ram, but didn't have his best stuff and let his emotions get away from him in the fourth.

A couple of near plays that should have gone the Cubs way ended up going the way of the Phillies and Carlos lost control of his emotion resulting in 5 runs in three innings and an end to the win streak.

Game Two-Saturday
Cubs 1 Phillies 7

For the third straight start, Lilly couldn't get out of the fifth. He gave up 5 runs in his 4 and 1/3 innings. Rich Hill was moved into the bullpen to try and "fix" his "problems", but right now, Lilly is struggling far more then Hill is.

Game Three-Sunday
Cubs 6 Phillies 5 (10)

In the 6th inning, the Cubs got a controversial homerun from Mark DeRosa. The umpire called the ball fair, replays seem to show that it was just foul.

The homer that might not have been gave the Cubs a 4-2 lead in the top of the 6th.

However, in the bottom of the 6th, the Phillies got 3 runs off of Michael Wuertz and the Phillies were in the lead by one.

Geo Soto got the Cubs back into it in the eighth with a check swing run scoring single.

With runners at first and second and one out in the 10th, the Cubs (out of bench players) pinch hit for Kerry Wood with Carlos Zambrano. He hit a ground ball that looked like it would be two to send the game to the bottom of the 10th still tied, but Utley's throw bounced and a hustling Zambrano was safe at first scoring Cedeno from second for a Cubs lead.

Howry came in a got the save, his first of the season.

Friday's Other Games

Saturday's Other Games

Yesterday's Other Games

LWIB

Well, if you watched Fox baseball or ESPN baseball this weekend, the only news worth talking about was the fact that the Red Sox and Yankees resumed their rivalry.

An interesting story coming out of that rivalry was the fact that a construction worker on the new Yankee Stadium who also is a Red Sox fan buried a David Ortiz jersey in the new stadium hoping to curse them. Yankee officals had it dug out of the concrete and are contemplating whether or not to press charges against the construction worker.

Ah, rivalries.

INTERESTING COMMENTARY

This one is thanks to Daddy Cleaver. Speaking of Red Sox/Yankees, the incomprable (when it comes to stating the obvious) Tim McCarver had this to say in Saturday's game on FOX Saturday Baseball...

"Catchers bring that mitt up prematurely, and hitters have ways of finding that out."


Daddy Cleaver's response? "Ways? Let's see, there's, um, seeing it? And...um, well, peripheral vision is about all I can come up with."

Yes, in Tim McCarver's world, two things that are actually the same thing count as "ways". No word on whether he thinks about his family while on the road.

Thanks to Daddy Cleaver for giving us this instance of INTERESTING COMMENTARY as I was watching the Rangers make errors in route to a 4-1 loss to the Blue Jays. In case you were wondering, 3 of those four runs were unearned.

Cubs are off today, but here are the rest of today's games.

The standings after week two...

AL EAST W L GB
Baltimore 7 5 -
Toronto 7 5 -
Boston 7 6 .5
Tampa Bay 6 6 1.0
New York 6 7 1.5

AL CENTRAL W L GB
Chicago 7 4 -
Kansas City 7 5 .5
Minnisota 6 6 1.5
Cleveland 5 7 2.5
Detroit 2 10 5.5

AL WEST W L GB
Oakland 8 5 -
Los Angeles 7 6 1.0
Seattle 6 7 2.0
Texas 5 7 2.5

NL EAST W L GB
Florida 7 5 -
Philadelphia 6 7 1.5
New York 5 6 1.5
Atlanta 5 7 2.0
Washington 4 9 3.5

NL CENTRAL W L GB
St. Louis 9 4 -
Milwaulkee 8 4 .5
Chicago 7 5 1.5
Pittsburgh 6 6 2.5
Cincinatti 6 7 3.0
Houston 5 8 4.0

NL WEST W L GB
Arizona 9 3 -
San Diego 7 6 2.5
Colorado 5 7 4.0
Los Angeles 5 7 4.0
San Fran 5 8 4.5

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