5/1 Cubs (Marshall) vs. Pirates (Santos) 7:05 CSN

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

They love to have Ronny bunt with Pierre on second.

[da bears]

Excellent. Pierre needs to pick up his offensive game. This is a good start. Edited May 2, 2006 by da bears

[CubinNY]

Ouch.

 

Jake, I feel for you man. I am glad you post here.

[Andy]

HE GAWNNNN!!!

Please don't ever do that again.

 

YOU CAN PUT IT ON THE BAWWWWDDD ... YES!

Ban him.

[soccer10k]

HE GAWNNNN!!!

Please don't ever do that again.

 

Take that over to a White Sox board.

[Fred Hornkohl]

CUBS are 7-1 when they score in the first inning.... 6-9 when they don't

 

 

Go CUBS !!

[Omar]

The result was great, but the idea was stupid.

 

Yesssssss... Now Cubs are playing "smartball" and actually do something good, score a run... and people complain.

[Flames24Rulz]

hm, that seemed a bit inside.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Walker struck out (called)

[Derwood]

the guy running the gamecast had a few too many oldstyles pre-game

[Shavo]

Good pitch by Santos there. Not much Walk could do.

[ToupeeOnFire]

The result was great, but the idea was stupid.

Derrek Lee injury = overmanaging by Dusty.

[Flames24Rulz]

Cedeno thrown out rather easily.

[Brian]

ugh.

[Omar]

Cedeno caught stealing with Ramirez batting. 2 down.

[Jake]

Is there a prayer for a first pitch strike?

 

Yeah!! An Out!!!

[Fred Hornkohl]

Cedeno thrown out trying to steal, 2-4

[Andy]

The result was great, but the idea was stupid.

 

Yesssssss... Now Cubs are playing "smartball" and actually do something good, score a run... and people complain.

With Pierre on 2nd and no one out, there is absolutely no reason to do that. He's going to score on any hit, or on any combination of two groundouts to second base, or on two fairly deep fly balls, etc. etc. No reason to give them outs.

[Shavo]

WHY???

[da bears]

Ramirez really needs to pick it up. He's been sucking.

[abuck1220]

The result was great, but the idea was stupid.

 

Yesssssss... Now Cubs are playing "smartball" and actually do something good, score a run... and people complain.

 

'smartball' just erased a baserunner.

[Fred Hornkohl]

BOTTOM OF THE FIRST INNING

 

Pierre singled to right field

Pierre stole second base

Cedeno sacrificed to the pitcher, safe at first on a throwing error, E1, Pierre scored

Walker struck out (called)

Cedeno thrown out trying to steal, 2-4

Ramirez flied out to center field

 

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

 

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

[Omar]

Ramirez lines to CF... inning over.

[Jake]

HEy, only one run given up in the first. THat's good for us!

[Schwarber Fan]

Pit: 0

CHC: 1