The Cubs earned a hard-fought victory last night in St. Louis. Ryan Dempster got some run support but then gave up a four run lead. The Cub offense had enough in the tank to pull out a win against the Cardinal bullpen. How does it feel to have won, but still be winless, Mr. Dempster?
‘‘That’s all right. Baby steps,’’ said Dempster, who pitched the first six innings of the Cubs’ 6-4 win over the first-place Cardinals in the opener of a two-game mini-series at Busch Stadium. ‘‘We got a win when I started a game. So that’s nice. You feel like you did your part.’’
You did your part in making sure that Shawn Camp was awarded a win. Alfonso Soriano came through in the eighth with the game-winning RBI. Has Dale Sveum considered moving him down in the order due to his lack of production?
‘‘One of the reasons is we don’t really have anybody else to put in that spot,’’ said Sveum. ‘‘You try to mix things up a little bit as far as left-right in that area. We talk about home runs, but it doesn’t have to be home runs. It’s just a matter of driving the runs in and doing a lot of things with the top of the order getting on base.’’
Said Soriano: ‘‘I don’t have the home runs, but when my team needs a big hit, I’m there. I know my power is coming sooner or later, so for right now, it’s big hits and help the team win. That’s more important than homers.’’
Yeah, but it would be nice to see some homers, too.
Today’s matinee features the resurgent Paul Maholm (4-2, 4.05) on the mound for the Cubs against the Cardinals’ Kyle Lohse (5-1, 2.08). Maholm has only allowed three runs in 25.1 innings in his last four starts. Lohse left his last start after straining his hamstring running the bases. Let’s hope he’s still not 100%. Today’s lineup:
DeJesus RF
Campana CF
Castro SS
LaHair 1B
Soriano LF
Stewart 3B
Castillo C
Barney 2B
Maholm P
Game time is 12:45 Central. Tune in on CSN today.
The Cubs sign Mike MacDougal to a minor league deal.
He was pretty good for the Dodgers last year…but not very good this year.
Once again Sveum benches Soto against a guy he’s crushed in his career. No matter why Soto’s number suck.
Day game after night game!!! Don’t you follow along???
He should have looked at the matchups and played Castillo yesterday then.
Cubs are winning 3-0 in the first.
Um…not so great now. Maholm is kinda shitty today.
3-2 still bottom of the 1st.
Where is everyone?
“work”
This game is gonna be a shit show.
It certainly looks that way.
I think the crappy Maholm is back.
This ‘stomach bug’ i have is less like a stomach bug and more like the zombie apocolypse or the beginning of ‘the stand.’
This team’s inability to get down a bunt is unbelievably bad. #cubs
And don’t ask me what that has to do with your “stomach bug”.
I’ll pick you up on the way to Boulder.
Hey Doc, I’ll bet it’s TODAY that bum LaHair doesn’t get — oh, wait…
I didn’t say he wouldn’t get a hit today. Only yesterday.
I know. Just thought I’d remind you how very wrong you were.
I’m wrong once in my life and I’ll never live it down.
Hey!
Soriano’s new bat just got into the game!
He’s now at least as good as Albert Pujols.
1. I’ve been in meetings- what’s the score?
2. More importantly-does anyone own an Ipad? If so, how hard is it to use? Also is the Ipad bigger than a Kindle? I have a chance to buy one, but have really,really small hands.(4 inches from thumb to little finger)
6-6 middle of the 9th.
iPad is bigger yes. Somewhat bigger than a Fire, quite a bit bigger than a “regular” Kindle. iPad is like 9.5″ (diag) screen, Fire is 7″.
Thank you for the info- I guess I’ll pass on the IPad.(even though it’s on Easy-Pay)
Oh I LOVE the idea of having a guy batting .100 pinch-hitting cold off the bench against Jason Motte. This should work out well.
Ian Stewart is having quite a good game defensively over at third today.
Game over.
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I guess no one was shocked or appalled by my use of Judy Garland as the image for this thread.
I was.
It fit the theme of today’s game…
Totally off topic: how many games will Lawrie be suspended for? I think 10 is about right- and his excuse that his “passion for the game” caused him to “accidently” hit the ump Miller is hokum. If it was Z or some other players, there would be calls to dump the guy,but so far, Toronto seems to be sticking up for him and making excuses…
If you throw your helmet in anger and it hits an umpire…I’m expecting over 10 games…possibly 20. I’d say 15, with an appeal down to 12.
It was not a good day for umpires yesterday.