5/17 Nationals (Day) @ Cubs (Marshall) 7:05 PM CSN

[Flames24Rulz]

well, we finally won a game tonight. Zambrano was pretty close to unhittable and the Nats really didn't have an answer for us. We took advantage of some breaks on offense, for the first time in what seems like forever, and managed to get 4 runs. So tomorrow night, I expect more of the same and yet another Cubs win. Onto the pitching matchup:

 

http://washington.nationals.mlb.com/images/players/mugshot/ph_400180.jpg

 

Zach Day: 2-3, 5.85 ERA

 

http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/images/players/mugshot/ph_445156.jpg

 

Sean Marshall: 2-1, 4.93 ERA

 

Marshall's ERA obviously took a hit in his last start against the Giants. I expect Sean to have a solid outing tomorrow night and to lower the ERA tomorrow night. Day, surprisingly, has had 2 good starts in a row going 7 innings in both starts and allowing 0 and 1 runs in those 2 starts. It's time to get another win.

[sunnydoo]

Ok, same plan as yesterday. Good job on the start Flame! Make the Nats feel sorry for us and suck up to their pitcher. Today's effort is by U2.

 

 

The heart is a bloom

Shoots up through the stony ground

There's no room

No space to rent in this town

 

You're out of luck

And the reason that you had to care

The traffic is stuck

And you're not moving anywhere

 

You thought you'd found a friend

To take you out of this place

Someone you could lend a hand

In return for grace

 

It's a beautiful day

Sky falls, you feel like

It's a beautiful day

Don't let it get away

 

You're on the road

But you've got no destination

You're in the mud

In the maze of her imagination

 

You love this town

Even if that doesn't ring true

You've been all over

And it's been all over you

 

It's a beautiful day

Don't let it get away

It's a beautiful day

 

Touch me

Take me to that other place

Teach me

I know I'm not a hopeless case

 

See the world in green and blue

See China right in front of you

See the canyons broken by cloud

See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out

See the Bedouin fires at night

See the oil fields at first light

And see the bird with a leaf in her mouth

After the flood all the colors came out

 

It was a beautiful day

Don't let it get away

Beautiful day

 

Touch me

Take me to that other place

Reach me

I know I'm not a hopeless case

 

What you don't have you don't need it now

What you don't know you can feel it somehow

What you don't have you don't need it now

Don't need it now

Was a beautiful day

[Omar]

Some prayers should help the Cubs out.

 

Yay and God said to Abraham, "you will kill your son, Issak", and Abraham said, I can't hear you, you'll have to speak into the microphone." "Oh I'm sorry, Is this better? Check, check, check... Jerry, pull the high end out, I'm still getting some hiss back here.

[Jon]

The Nationals have done very well against lefties this season with an .828 OPS, good for 5th in the NL. Hopefully Marshall will be on his game tomorrow night.

[soccer10k]

I'm glad we only scored 4 runs today. No need to waste runs with Z pitching well. We need those runs for other games.

[Sammy Sofa]

I am convinced Marshall will do very well since his mentor Maddux did very well his last start. Marshall only faltered when Maddog did (I don't count the D-Backs loss...even super Maddux cannot defeat his supernatural nemesis). As Maddux goes, so does Marshall. I just hope he isn't backed up by the same pathetic non-offense Greg got his last go-around.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

We are awesome.

 

 

Bullpen Rest  Dempster   Eyre      Williamson   Howry   Ohman     Novoa      Rusch      Ryu
May 16        1IP/9p     DNP         DNP        DNP      DNP       DNP        DNP       DNP

May 15         DNP       DNP         DNP        DNP      DNP       DNP        DNP       DNP

May 14         DNP       DNP        .2IP/17p   1IP/17p   DNP     1IP/23p      DNP     1IP/27p

May 13        1IP/20p   .2IP/6p      DNP        DNP      DNP       DNP        DNP       DNP 

May 12        1IP/17p   1IP/10p    1.1IP/15p   1IP/19p   DNP       DNP      1.2IP/40p   DNP

May 11         DNP       DNP        1IP/14p     DNP     1IP9p    2.1IP/31p    DNP       DNP

[Roast]

What kind of sick joke is this?

 

I get home from work and you guys are trying to tell me the cubs WON?

 

hahahah, no really, why would you do something like that...

 

*checks cubs.com*

 

Holy crap.

[Drew Doughty]

well, with that offensive explosion earlier in the evening, I'm feeling confident in us winning again tomorrow night.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

I'm just worried that we may have already scored our four runs for the week.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Worthless stats of the day for Wednesday.......

 

CUBS are 3-3 on Wednesdays

CUBS are 1-0 vs. Washington

CUBS are 3-7 when they've won their last 1 game(s) in a row

CUBS are 5-10 when they've won their previous game

CUBS are 9-9 at night

CUBS are 9-9 at home

CUBS are 12-5 when they get a quality start.... 4-17 when they don't

CUBS are 13-3 when they score at least 4 runs.... 3-19 when they don't

CUBS are 11-5 when they allow fewer than 4 runs.... 4-18 when they don't

CUBS are 13-4 when they outhit the opponents.... 2-15 when they get outhit.... and 1-3 when the hits are even

CUBS are 12-16 when Barrett starts.... 4-6 when Blanco starts

CUBS are 15-9 when one of Maddux, Marshall, or Zambrano start

CUBS are on a pace to win 68 games this year..... compared to 79 last year

CUBS are on a pace to score 610 runs this year..... compared to 703 last year

CUBS are on a pace to hit 111 home runs this year..... compared to 194 last year

CUBS are on a pace to draw 435 walks this year..... compared to 419 last year

CUBS are drving in 18.6% of their runners on base compared to 18.4% last year

CUBS are scoring 0.346 runs per baserunner compared to 0.365 last year

CUBS haven't hit a home run in their last 5 games

CUBS have not been caught stealing in their last 14 games

CUBS have not GIDP'd in their last 3 games

CUBS have committed at least 1 error in each for their last 4 games

CUBS hitters have been HBP once in their last 8 games

CUBS have not thrown a runner out trying to steal in their last 7 games.... 2 CS in their last 17 games

CUBS opponents have committed at least one error in 4 of their last 6 games

CUBS pitchers allowed no XHB hits Tuesday night..... 2nd time this season

CUBS pitchers have not allowed more than 1 HR in a game in their last 6 games

CUBS pitchers have hit 2 batters in their last 10 games

CUBS pitchers have 1 shutout on the season.... 2nd time they've allowed no earned runs.

 

CUBS are 5-2 when Marshall starts

Marshall is 3 of 7 in quality starts

Marshall's ERA pitching to Barrett is 4.93.... Marshal has not pitched to Blanco

CUBS score 3.76 R/G overall.... 4.71 R/G when Marshall pitches

CUBS hit 0.68 HR/G overall.... 0.43 HR/G when Marshall pitches

 

CUBS' offensive support of Marshall.....

 

04/03 - 05/16      AB    R    H   2b   3b   HR   TB  RBI   BB   SO     BA    OBP    SLG    OPS
CUBS w/Marshall   235   33   68    7    4    3   92   29   19   44  0.289  0.345  0.391  0.736
CUBS overall     1250  143  305   55   10   26  458  131  102  206  0.244  0.302  0.366  0.669

 

Marshall's last 5 starts (1-1).....

 

Marshall                IP    H    R   ER   BB    K   HR    PC  BB/9   K/9  HR/9  WHIP   ERA
04/19  vs. L.A.        5.0    2    2    2    3    4    1    86  5.40  7.20  1.80  1.00  3.60
04/25  vs. Flor        7.0    2    0    0    2    7    0    96  2.57  9.00  0.00  0.57  0.00
05/01  vs. Pitts       7.3    4    1    1    1    5    0    90  1.23  6.14  0.00  0.68  1.23
05/06  vs. S.D.        6.0    3    1    1    3    6    0    90  4.50  9.00  0.00  1.00  1.50
05/11  vs. S.F.        3.7    9    9    9    5    2    0    88 12.27  4.91  0.00  3.82 22.09

5 game totals         29.0   20   13   13   14   24    1   450  4.34  7.45  0.31  1.17  4.03

season totals         38.3   29   21   21   16   28    3   594  3.76  6.57  0.70  1.17  4.93

 

CUBS' season series vs. Washington .......

 

Gm#    Date       Opponent         Score  Starter
38  Tue 05/16    Washington    N   4- 0  Zambrano      
39  Wed 05/17    Washington    N    -    Marshall      
40  Thu 05/18    Washington         -    Wood        
95  Fri 07/21  @ Washington    N    -             
96  Sat 07/22  @ Washington    N    -             
97  Sun 07/23  @ Washington         -             

 

CUBS' offense vs. Washington last year.....

 

vs. Wash           AB    R    H   2B   3B   HR   TB  RBI   BB   SO     BA    OBP    SLG    OPS
Hollandsworth      13    1    4    2    0    1    9    2    2    4  0.308  0.400  0.692  1.092
Macias              9    0    4    1    0    0    5    2    0    1  0.444  0.444  0.556  1.000
Lee                26    4    7    0    2    2   17    2    1    5  0.269  0.296  0.654  0.950
Hairston           15    2    4    1    0    1    8    1    1    1  0.267  0.353  0.533  0.886
Dubois             12    2    4    2    0    0    6    2    0    3  0.333  0.385  0.500  0.885
Ramirez            18    3    4    0    0    2   10    4    1    1  0.222  0.263  0.556  0.819
Burnitz            23    6    7    2    0    0    9    1    3    2  0.304  0.385  0.391  0.776
Barrett            16    1    5    0    0    0    5    3    2    2  0.313  0.389  0.313  0.701
Patterson          23    1    5    1    1    0    8    2    1    8  0.217  0.250  0.348  0.598
Blanco              7    0    2    0    0    0    2    0    0    0  0.286  0.286  0.286  0.571
Cedeno              7    0    2    0    0    0    2    0    0    3  0.286  0.286  0.286  0.571
Fontenot            1    1    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0  0.000  0.500  0.000  0.500
Grieve              1    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    1    0  0.000  0.500  0.000  0.500
Walker             13    0    2    0    0    0    2    0    1    3  0.154  0.214  0.154  0.368
Perez              26    0    3    0    0    0    3    0    2    4  0.115  0.179  0.115  0.294

totals vs. Wash   218   22   56   10    3    6   90   19   15   38  0.257  0.314  0.413  0.726

season totals    5585  704 1505  313   23  190 2434  676  417  910  0.269  0.324  0.436  0.759

 

CUBS' pitchers vs. Washington last year......

 

vs. Wash             IP    H    R   ER   BB    K   HR    PC  BB/9   K/9  HR/9  WHIP   ERA
Wuertz              4.3    0    0    0    0    8    0    62  0.00 16.62  0.00  0.00  0.00
Ohman               3.0    0    0    0    1    5    0    40  3.00 15.00  0.00  0.33  0.00
Hawkins             2.3    2    0    0    1    0    0    26  3.86  0.00  0.00  1.29  0.00
Wellemeyer          2.3    1    0    0    0    0    0    27  0.00  0.00  0.00  0.43  0.00
Dempster            2.0    0    0    0    1    3    0    34  4.50 13.50  0.00  0.50  0.00
Novoa               2.0    3    0    0    4    4    0    61 18.00 18.00  0.00  3.50  0.00
Bartosh             1.7    0    1    0    0    0    0    16  0.00  0.00  0.00  0.00  0.00
Mitre               2.3    2    1    1    2    1    1    38  7.71  3.86  3.86  1.71  3.86
Rusch               7.0   11    5    4    3    4    0   144  3.86  5.14  0.00  2.00  5.14
Williams            7.0    5    4    4    1    3    1    88  1.29  3.86  1.29  0.86  5.14
Zambrano           10.3   10    6    6    3   11    0   185  2.61  9.58  0.00  1.26  5.23
Prior               5.0    6    3    3    0    7    1    82  0.00 12.60  1.80  1.20  5.40
Maddux              5.0    7    4    4    1    2    1    68  1.80  3.60  1.80  1.60  7.20
Remlinger           0.7    2    1    1    2    0    0    30 27.00  0.00  0.00  6.00 13.50

totals vs. Wash    55.0   49   25   23   19   48    4   901  3.11  7.85  0.65  1.24  3.76

season totals    1439.3 1357  714  671  576 1255  186 23680  3.60  7.85  1.16  1.34  4.20

 

Go CUBS !!!

[sunnydoo]

In the Words of Boomer:

 

 

Marshall, Marshall, Marshall!

[Andy]

I'll be working during this game. I didn't check the exact record of the Cubs during my work days last season, but I believe it was something like 79-0. I think we're in good hands.

[NCCubFan]

I'm just worried that we may have already scored our four runs for the month.

Fixed. :D

[IWU_CUBS_FAN]

hmm a winning streak does sound quite nice....cmon cubbies

[BigSlick]

Cubs lose 14-13 after blowing a 13-0 lead when a Black cat holding a baseball in its mouth and with headphones blazing over its ears bites off Sean Marshall's arm.

 

 

Oh yeah, a goat is videotaping it.

[Fred Hornkohl]

hmm a winning streak does sound quite nice....cmon cubbies

 

Last CUBS winning streak was 24-25 April vs. Florida. [sigh]

[sunnydoo]

hmm a winning streak does sound quite nice....cmon cubbies

 

Last CUBS winning streak was 24-25 April vs. Florida. [sigh]

 

we also won the 23rd vs. the Cards. So that was a 3 game streak.

[Jon]

60% chance of rain tonight with possible thunderstorms.

[Fred Hornkohl]

60% chance of rain tonight with possible thunderstorms.

 

Are we looking at a doubleheader tommorrow ??

[gerby23]

Well, I got my Cubs tattoo yesterday by a Cards fan in Cards country during a losing streak and they won. I don't think my wife will let me get a new one everyday, so it is someone else's turn...any takers???

Hopefully, the Cubs decide they like this winning thing and keep it up.

[Fro]

I told you we'd flip the giant enemy crab!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRoSS3B8Nro

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Cubs lose, 83-7.

[Banedon]

Cubs lose, 83-7.

 

Come on...get real....7 runs??

[goonys evil twin]

Cubs lose, 83-7.

 

Come on...get real....7 runs??

 

Their pitchers will get so tired from running the bases that they'll let-up, and the defenders will just not have any interest in charging the soft ground balls with an 80 run lead.