5/14 S.D. (Hensley) @ CUBS (Hill) 1:20 pm, WGN-TV, XM187

[Flames24Rulz]

Giles walks.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Let's plunk this guy.

[Yeti]

do they use the same clips for the intro to games on WGN for every game?

 

 

i saw myself in the left field bleachers on todays intro

 

kinda funny considering i root against the cubs these days

 

i like the sig.

thanks, when i first used it as my avatar, i sort of expected a comment outta you, that was months ago though...ive actually been wondering where you've been, this board has been leaning more and more to the right during your absence, gotta have the resident leftist around to balance out the political discussions

[Flames24Rulz]

nice curve by Rich to get Piazza to ground out into a force out to end the inning.

[Fred Hornkohl]

TOP OF THE FIRST INNING

 

Young flied out to left field

Cameron struck out swinging

Giles walked

Piazza grounded into a FC, 6-4, Giles out at second

 

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

 

              1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9    R H E
San Diego     0                    0 0 0 
CUBS          .                    0 0 0 

 

pitcher     IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
Hill       1.0  0  0  0  1  1  0  17 

[Balsa]

Decent inning from Hill. Giles is just a damn good hitter.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Pierre grounded out to first, unassisted

[CubfaninCA]

omg piazza doesn't kill them.

 

why isn't murton batting 8th?

[badger1679666666]

Decent inning from Hill. Giles is just a damn good hitter.

 

Yea his OPS isn't so great, and his slugging has tailed off remarkably this year. He still is an OBP machine, but the sudden major drop off in SLG% makes me think he might have been on something.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Cedeno struck out swinging, 2-3

[Soul]

The league has just made an adjustment to Cedeno.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Walker doubled down the right field line

[Flames24Rulz]

2 out double for Walker. Rally time plz.

[Fred Hornkohl]

BOTTOM OF THE FIRST INNING

 

Pierre grounded out to first, unassisted

Cedeno struck out swinging, 2-3

Walker doubled down the right field line

Ramirez lined out to shortstop

 

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

 

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

[Flames24Rulz]

Ramirez lines out to Greene to end the inning.

[Balsa]

Cedeno is really struggling. He needs to take more walks, or else teams are just gonna keep giving him crap.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Cedeno is really struggling. He needs to take more walks, or else teams are just gonna keep giving him crap.

 

Yeah, Cedeno's last walk was on Wed 26 April against Florida, 17 games ago.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Greene singled to left field

[Flames24Rulz]

Greene singles.

[Balsa]

Hill is falling behind too many batters early in the count.

[Balsa]

Cedeno is really struggling. He needs to take more walks, or else teams are just gonna keep giving him crap.

 

Yeah, Cedeno's last walk was on Wed 26 April against Florida, 17 games ago.

 

Wow. Didn't realize it was quite that bad.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Castilla struck out swinging

[sweetpeteman]

Decent inning from Hill. Giles is just a damn good hitter.

 

Yea his OPS isn't so great, and his slugging has tailed off remarkably this year. He still is an OBP machine, but the sudden major drop off in SLG% makes me think he might have been on something.

 

23 of their first 37 have been at home, where no left handers do any good slugging wise. Also, of their 14 road games, 9 were in the 1st/2nd week of the season.

 

 

Just because someone is struggling to hit homers doesn't automatically mean they were on something.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Barfield walked, Greene to second

[Balsa]

C'mon Hill, let's get a double play here.