Opening Day 4-3 Cubs (Zambrano) v. Reds (Harang) 1:10 CT WGN

[Rob]

Valentine with a sharp hit to Jones.

[MeatampPotatoesMan]

Just checking in what's happening? Z losing his cool yet?

 

It's not help that this ump is squeezing him like nobodys business.

 

harang's not having a problem after that first inning. :wink:

[Transmogrified Tiger]

for the love of all that is good and holy, Valentin

[treebird]

z's going to throw 130 pitches today, good thing we're not going to give him an extra day between starts

[Rob]

I want to see Z give Harang some sweet chin music.

[C.C.]

This start by Z is really a carry over from Spring. He never looked good in Spring either. I can only hope this is a fluke start by Z. He looks terrible today.

[Rob]

Harang goes down swinging.

 

5-4 Cubs

[Careless]

Brenly just advocated throwing at valentin

[goonys evil twin]

I'm not even saying this just because of this game.. (or now, in light of that 3 run bomb he just gave up), and not to take anything away from Z, but I've always sort of laughed at the notion that Z was the best of our injury-depleted "Big 3"..

 

Prior and Wood are definitely better (those two huge qualifying words attached, of course)... Z is still awesome though...

 

Yeah, that's not true.

[sethuel1]

Brenly just advocated throwing at valentin

because...

[frostwyrm]

I liked fat Z better. Somebody get him a box of jelly doughnuts stat.

[Fred Hornkohl]

BOTTOM OF THE THIRD INNING

 

Griffey grounded out to second, 4-3

Dunn singled to right field

Encarnacion walked, Dunn to second

Hatteberg homered to right center field, Dunn & Encarnacion scored

Kearns struck out swinging

Valentin singled to right field

Harang struck out swinging

 

3 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1 men left on base

 

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

 

Home runs: CUBS: Murton, Cincinnati: Hatteberg

 

pitcher     IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
Zambrano   3.0  5  4  4  4  4  1  72 

[C.C.]

IT"S TIME TO GET OUR OFFENSE GOING AGAIN!!

[BeerHere]

72 pitches thru 3 for Z

[Rob]

Brenly just advocated throwing at valentin

because...

 

Because "he looks too comfortable up there"

[MeatampPotatoesMan]

Brenly just advocated throwing at valentin

 

i missed that. why?

[Wilson A2000]

I'm not even saying this just because of this game.. (or now, in light of that 3 run bomb he just gave up), and not to take anything away from Z, but I've always sort of laughed at the notion that Z was the best of our injury-depleted "Big 3"..

 

Prior and Wood are definitely better (those two huge qualifying words attached, of course)... Z is still awesome though...

 

No. Z has the single best pitch, even better than Wood's curve with that 95 mph sinker. He is healthy and a horse and can hit .300. I'd take him over Wood and Prior in a heartbeat.

[BeerHere]

I liked fat Z better. Somebody get him a box of jelly doughnuts stat.

 

:lol:

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Brenly just advocated throwing at valentin

because...

 

he beats the Cubs like a Murton?

[Andy]

Ump calls a pitch a strike that was further outside than five or six that he's called balls and Z gets the K to get out of it.

 

And Z is the best and most consistent of our Big 3, if you ask me. Prior and Wood tend to have bad starts much more often than Z.

[David]

I'm not even saying this just because of this game.. (or now, in light of that 3 run bomb he just gave up), and not to take anything away from Z, but I've always sort of laughed at the notion that Z was the best of our injury-depleted "Big 3"..

 

Prior and Wood are definitely better (those two huge qualifying words attached, of course)... Z is still awesome though...

 

Yeah, that's not true.

 

When Prior is healthy, it's not close. Wood is a much closer call, admittedly.

[Mark_R]

At least Murton bats this inning! :D

[erik316wttn]

I want to see Z give Harang some sweet chin music.

 

Vintage Shawn Michaels chin music. Like he gave Vince McMahon at Wrestlemania last night.

[WrigleyinEngland]

Need some 'O'. Here's a question for everyone. Would you like one of these 'ban boxes' as your teams ballpark?? me i love pitching couldn't watch ball after ball fly out, give me a 1-0 win any time........

[ToupeeOnFire]

72 pitches thru 3 for Z

Baker will try to get him through the 5th, pitch count be damned.