6/16 Detroit Tigers (Robertson) @ Cobs (Rusch) 1:20 PM - WGN

[David]

Tommorow we're gonna suck some more, like we always do, as the interleague portion of the schedule starts up again.

 

This guy (6-3 3.50)

http://www.theoaklandpress.com/images/photos5.10/7762_512.jpg

 

will face this bum (2-6 7.29)

 

http://images.tsn.ca/images/stories/20050906/rusch_83190.jpg

[Outshined_One]

I predict a slaughter.

[PrimeTime]

I think well be down 14-0 by the 3rd inning

[Mizzou]

What? Why the hell is Rusch starting again? How many more chances is this guy going to get? He freaking SUCKS!

[David]

What? Why the hell is Rusch starting again? How many more chances is this guy going to get? He freaking SUCKS!

 

That guy in your avatar can't pitch soon enough.

[Flames24Rulz]

Wow, Rusch pitching? Screw this.

[PrimeTime]

The Cubs are obviously the dumbest orginization in all of baseball...are they waiting for rusch's ERA to hit 10 before they take him out?? And starting Neifi Perez almost everyday...We are pothetic, but as long as wrigley gets packed with 40,000 every game the Tribune could care less about the team

[UMFan83]

Go away Cubs, I hate you

[Mark_R]

Sweep the Cubs plz

[Andy]

I'm gonna watch just for the sheer hilarity of seeing this guy that has an almost 9.00 ERA as a starter continue to get chance after chance to embarrass himself while we have a guy with a bright future ON THE DAMN 25 MAN ROSTER who could easily start in his place.

 

Hahahahahahahaha.

 

(The Cubs have driven me insane. It's official.)

[Outshined_One]

Cripes, couldn't they have thrown Rich Hill to the wolves for the rest of the season?

[Laura]

Hmmm, this whole game thread may need to be moved to rants. :wink:

 

I am so sick of the cobs, they are a complete joke.

[A New Era]

AAHH GEE..z!!

[Sammy Sofa]

So was Marmol TOO good his first time out?

[Andy]

So was Marmol TOO good his first time out?

Meaning will Dusty run him into the ground, or meaning will Dusty/Jim decide to send him down to make room for more Rusch?

[Outshined_One]

So was Marmol TOO good his first time out?

Meaning will Dusty run him into the ground, or meaning will Dusty/Jim decide to send him down to make room for more Rusch?

 

Or trade him along with Sean Gallagher and Randy Wells to the Twins for Torii Hunter.

[Jim Ignatowski]

I'm going to preempt Fred with the only useless statistic you need to know.

 

 

 

Dusty Baker will be managing the Cobs.

[Jim Ignatowski]

I'm going to preempt Fred with the only useless statistic you need to know.

 

 

 

Dusty Baker will be managing the Cobs.

[Roast]

Hahahahahaha

 

The Tigers are going to tear us apart. I am definatley starting Chris Shelton against this joke of a team.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Worthless stats of the day for Friday......

 

CUBS are 5-5 on Fridays

CUBS are 0-0 vs. Detroit

CUBS are 1-2 vs. the ALC Division

CUBS are 2-3 when they've lost their last 3 game(s) in a row

CUBS are 13-23 when they've lost their previous game

CUBS are 11-11 in games that start a series

CUBS are 11-23 in day games

CUBS are 12-17 at home

CUBS are 5-22 when WGN broadcasts the game

CUBS are 7-18 when the temperature is 70 degrees or above

CUBS are 11-7 when Pierre steals a base.... 15-32 when he dosen't

CUBS are on a pace to win 65 games this year..... compared to 79 last year

CUBS are on a pace to score 643 runs this year..... compared to 703 last year

CUBS are on a pace to hit 127 home runs this year..... compared to 194 last year

CUBS are on a pace to draw 391 walks this year..... compared to 419 last year

CUBS are on a pace to ground into 164 double plays this year..... compared to 129 last year

CUBS are scoring 3.97 runs per game compared to 4.34 last year

CUBS are seeing 3.62 pitches per plate appearance compared to 3.61 last year

CUBS are drving in 19.2% of their runners on base compared to 18.4% last year

CUBS are scoring 0.347 runs per baserunner compared to 0.365 last year

CUBS are extra base hit ratio is 28.8% compared to 35.8% last year

CUBS have 6 SB in their last 9 games

CUBS have 3 sac bunts in their last 10 games

CUBS have 3 errors in their last 10 games

CUBS have 3 triples in their last 15 games

CUBS have 7 home runs in their last 9 games

CUBS have drawn 4 BBs in their last 4 games..... 18 BBs in their last 10 games

Juan Pierre has made 2 hits in 4 of his last 5 games.

CUBS are 282-269 when Dusty Baker manages the team..... 9,579-9,061 when he doesn't.

 

CUBS are 2-5 when Rusch starts

Rusch is 10 of 14 in quality starts

Rusch's ERA pitching to Barrett is 8.31 ... pitching to Blanco it's 8.78

CUBS score 3.97 R/G overall.... 3.86 R/G when Rusch pitches

CUBS hit 0.78 HR/G overall.... 1.29 HR/G when Rusch pitches

 

CUBS' offensive support of Rusch.....

 

04/03 - 06/15      AB    R    H   2b   3b   HR   TB  RBI   BB   SO     BA    OBP    SLG    OPS
CUBS w/Rusch      237   27   58    9    1    9   96   27   14   27  0.245  0.290  0.405  0.695
CUBS overall     2211  258  570   95   18   51  854  241  157  335  0.258  0.309  0.386  0.696

 

Rusch's previous starts (2-5).....

 

Rusch                   IP    H    R   ER   BB    K   HR    PC  BB/9   K/9  HR/9  WHIP   ERA
04/05  vs. Cincy       4.0    6    4    4    2    2    2    85  4.50  4.50  4.50  2.00  9.00
04/11  vs. Cincy       5.0    5    4    4    1    4    4    97  1.80  7.20  7.20  1.20  7.20
04/16  vs. Pitts       6.0    5    3    3    1    5    1    88  1.50  7.50  1.50  1.00  4.50
04/22  vs. St. L       4.7    2    3    3    4    3    0    95  7.71  5.79  0.00  1.29  5.79
04/29  vs. Milw        2.7    6    7    7    3    0    4    81 10.13  0.00 13.50  3.38 23.63
06/03  vs. St. L       5.0    4    3    3    2    5    0    90  3.60  9.00  0.00  1.20  5.40

Home                  13.3   24   21   19    6   13   10   301  4.05  8.78  6.75  2.25 12.83
Road                  32.3   27   18   18   14   28    6   592  3.90  7.79  1.67  1.27  5.01

Day                   37.7   42   34   32   17   34   13   742  4.06  8.12  3.11  1.57  7.65
Nite                   8.0    9    5    5    3    7    3   151  3.38  7.88  3.38  1.50  5.63

season totals         45.7   51   39   37   20   41   16   893  3.94  8.08  3.15  1.55  7.29

 

CUBS' bullpen usage for the last week......

 

              Thu        Wed        Tue        Mon        Sun        Sat        Fri           Totals
             15 Jun     14 Jun     13 Jun     12 Jun     11 Jun     10 Jun     09 Jun
             vs Houst   vs Houst   vs Houst   no game    at Cincy   at Cincy   at Cincy
pitcher        IP Pit     IP Pit     IP Pit     IP Pit     IP Pit     IP Pit     IP Pit        IP Pit

Dempster                 1.0  11                                     1.0  17    1.0  35       3.0  63
Eyre          0.7  21                                     1.0  25               1.0  26       2.7  72
Howry         1.0  29    1.0  15                                     0.3  11    1.7  23       4.0  78
Ohman                               1.0  16               0.3   5                             1.3  21
Novoa         0.3   1               1.0  15               1.0  12                             2.3  28
Aardsma                             1.0  15               0.7  26                             1.7  41
Guzman                              2.0  31                                                   2.0  31
Rusch                                                                                                

Totals        2.0  51    2.0  26    5.0  77               3.0  68    1.3  28    3.7  84      17.0 334

 

CUBS' season series vs. Detroit (0-0).......

 

Gm#    Date       Opponent         Score  Starter
66  Fri 06/16    Detroit            -    Rusch        
67  Sat 06/17    Detroit            -    Marmol        
68  Sun 06/18    Detroit            -    Marshall      

 

CUBS' hitters during the last 7 games......

 

06/08 - 06/15      AB    R    H   2B   3B   HR   TB  RBI   BB   SO     BA    OBP    SLG    OPS
Blanco              3    1    2    1    0    0    3    3    0    0  0.667  0.667  1.000  1.667
Nevin              19    3    8    2    0    2   16    4    0    4  0.421  0.421  0.842  1.263
Barrett            24    3    9    1    0    1   13    5    2    3  0.375  0.407  0.542  0.949
Bynum              10    0    3    0    1    0    5    0    1    1  0.300  0.364  0.500  0.864
Perez              16    3    5    1    0    1    9    3    0    2  0.313  0.294  0.563  0.857
Cedeno             21    4    6    0    1    1   11    3    1    5  0.286  0.318  0.524  0.842
Womack             12    2    3    0    0    1    6    1    1    1  0.250  0.308  0.500  0.808
Ramirez            23    1    7    3    0    0   10    3    1    3  0.304  0.360  0.435  0.795
Mabry               4    1    1    1    0    0    2    0    0    1  0.250  0.250  0.500  0.750
Pierre             31    3    9    1    0    0   10    2    1    2  0.290  0.313  0.323  0.635
Walker             22    2    5    1    0    0    6    1    2    1  0.227  0.292  0.273  0.564
Murton             20    2    4    0    0    0    4    0    2    1  0.200  0.273  0.200  0.473
Jones              27    3    4    0    0    1    7    2    0   10  0.148  0.143  0.259  0.402

7 game totals     245   28   68   11    2    7  104   28   12   40  0.278  0.310  0.424  0.735

season totals    2211  258  570   91   18   51  850  240  157  333  0.258  0.310  0.384  0.694

 

CUBS' pitchers during the last 7 games......

 

06/08 - 06/15        IP    H    R   ER   BB    K   HR    PC  BB/9   K/9  HR/9  WHIP   ERA
Zambrano           14.7    9    2    2    8    9    1   233  4.91  5.52  0.61  1.16  1.23
Marmol              6.0    2    1    1    3    7    1    99  4.50 10.50  1.50  0.83  1.50
Howry               4.7    5    2    1    1    7    0    87  1.93 13.50  0.00  1.29  1.93
Guzman              2.0    1    1    1    1    1    0    31  4.50  4.50  0.00  1.00  4.50
Aardsma             2.0    1    1    1    2    1    1    51  9.00  4.50  4.50  1.50  4.50
Novoa               3.7    3    2    2    3    1    0    69  7.36  2.45  0.00  1.64  4.91
Maddux             12.3   15    7    7    0    3    2   156  0.00  2.19  1.46  1.22  5.11
Dempster            3.0    3    2    2    3    2    0    63  9.00  6.00  0.00  2.00  6.00
Ohman               3.3    3    3    3    0    4    0    47  0.00 10.80  0.00  0.90  8.10
Eyre                2.7    5    3    3    3    1    1    72 10.13  3.38  3.38  3.00 10.13
Marshall            4.0    7    5    5    4    1    1    88  9.00  2.25  2.25  2.75 11.25
Rusch               3.7    7    5    5    1    5    3    78  2.45 12.27  7.36  2.18 12.27

7 game totals      62.0   61   34   33   29   42   10  1074  4.21  6.10  1.45  1.45  4.79

season totals     574.7  533  320  297  280  479   80  9749  4.39  7.50  1.25  1.41  4.65

 

Percentage of baserunners driven in

 

04/03 - 06/15      BDI  LOB   RBI%
Restovich            1    2  0.333
Lee                  7   17  0.292
Walker              26   66  0.283
Barrett             22   70  0.239
Perez               13   43  0.232
Blanco               6   21  0.222
Nevin                3   11  0.214
Jones               22   82  0.212
Ramirez             25   95  0.208
Cedeno              17   83  0.170
Murton              16   82  0.163
Bynum                4   24  0.143
Hairston             4   27  0.129
Pagan                1    8  0.111
Pierre               7   67  0.095
Mabry                3   30  0.091
Womack               1   13  0.071
Theriot              0    2  0.000

CUBS               189  800  0.191

 

Go CUBS !!

Edited June 16, 2006 by Fred Hornkohl

[E.J.]

Go Tigers!!!

[Fred Hornkohl]

Go Tigers!!!

 

Hmmm.... a Clemson fan, eh?

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Go Tigers!!!

 

Hmmm.... a Clemson fan, eh?

 

Don't be silly.

 

http://www.msta.org/images/news/mizzou.jpg

[Fred Hornkohl]

Go Tigers!!!

 

Hmmm.... a Clemson fan, eh?

 

Don't be silly.

 

http://www.msta.org/images/news/mizzou.jpg

 

I just knew that would get your attention !! :wink:

[Brian]

I'm going to watch the College World Series and Tyler Colvin instead, see what the kids got before he's influended by the Cubs.