ST 3/25 Cubs (Marshall) vs A's & Cubs (Williams) @ Royal

[Jon]

Was that fastball clocked at 99 mph?!

The strikeout? I thought I saw 96. He hit 97 in that inning, I believe, but I don't think I saw anything higher than that.

 

The pitch right before strike three is the one I'm talking about. It was 96 for the K pitch.

Well, it certainly has a lot of life on it. Once he gets the control to be able to throw that on the inside corner without leaving it over the middle of the plate, it's going to be fun.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

German grounds out to end the inning.

 

At the end of 4, 6-3 Cubs.

[Omar]

Walker walks. How's Hairston doing?

[Fred Hornkohl]

Damned base clogger, that Walker !!

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Walker walks. How's Hairston doing?

 

He's walked twice and singled.

[MeatampPotatoesMan]

Moore tried to hit into another DP, but couldn't get a good enough piece of it.

[CubinNY]

c'mon Ronny

[Omar]

1st and 3rd with 2 outs.

[Outshined_One]

Whoopsie. Nice job Rich.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Pagan grounds out.

 

1 down.

[ToupeeOnFire]

Harden pulls a Zambrano. :P

[MeatampPotatoesMan]

Beautiful hit, Cedeno. :lol: Whatever works.

[ltb]

juan guzman, eh bob?

[YearofDaCubs]

Wish I was in Chicago to see the game.

[CubinNY]

Walker needs a better Tailor. His pants looks like he took a dump in them.

[craig]

Well, he had 18 starts on the infield last year, 8 in the outfield(the games started breakdown would have been nice to find before I went through the game log), and Neifi plays more positions in the infield.

 

Last year the Cubs had significant infield injuries at 2B (Walker), SS (Nomar), and 3B (Aram). If all the starting infielders miss as many starts this year as they did last year, Neifi is going to get plenty more than 25 starts.

 

But the original poster said that if the starting infielders were healthy, he didn't expect Neifi to get more than 25 starts. The "if healthy" clause will almost certainly not be met, so we'll never know. But I don't think that's a crazy view; in the unlikely event that the other infielders are healthy, I'm not sure I'd expect more than 25-30 starts for Neifi either.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Pie hits a looper between 2nd and CF for a base hit.

[Fred Hornkohl]

BOTTOM OF THE FIFTH INNING

 

Jones lined out to third base

Walker walked

Moore grounded out to third, 5-3, Walker to second

Cedeno singled off the pitchers hand, Walker to third

Blanco struck out swinging

 

0 runs, 1 hits, 0 errors, 2 men left on base

 

              1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9    R H E
Oakland       0 0 0 0 0            0 0 0 
CUBS          0 0 0 0 0            0 2 0 

 

pitcher     IP  H  R ER BB  K HR 
Marshall   4.0  0  0  0  4  5  0 
Guzman     1.0  0  0  0  1  1  0 

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Dopirak singles and Pie moves all the way to third. Runners on the corners with one out.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Hairston grounds into a 5-4-3 DP. Side retired.

 

Mid 5, Cubs 6, Royals 3.

[YearofDaCubs]

Who's faster Corey or Pie?

[Omar]

Is it "Loser Guest Day" in the booth today? First Selig, now MacPhail.

[Jon]

That was a pretty sweet first pitch curve.

 

And there it is again. Wow.

Edited March 25, 2006 by Jon

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Wow...what a pitch!

[CubinNY]

Who's faster Corey or Pie?

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