5/17 - Pirates (Duke) @ Cubs (Zambrano) 12:05PM CSN & 720

[Hairyducked Idiot]

http://www.fangraphs.com/lgraphs/280517116_Pirates_Cubs_73443270_lbig.png

[TysonCBulls423]

well I'll be damned.

[erik316wttn]

Great. Now I have to go to work pissed. Thanks a lot, Cubs.

[17 Seconds]

And now we will rely on Marquis to avoid a series loss? Great.

[BigSlick]

I hate giving up leads and then tying it up and then losing anyway

 

Lame

[Fred Hornkohl]

Bay called out on strikes

[TruffleShuffle]

Great, we just lost a series to the Pirates.

 

hopefully tomorrow's result is the same as the "automatic loss" to jake peavy

[manbearcub]

I dropped the soap!

[Transmogrified Tiger]

good to see McLouth continue to OPS 200 points better than he ever has in his life

[Careless]

I wonder what the estimate is for the highest fly/pop ever hit

[Little Slide Rooter]

Great, we just lost a series to the Pirates.

 

hopefully tomorrow's result is the same as the "automatic loss" to jake peavy

 

Marquis wasnt pitching.

[Fred Hornkohl]

TOP OF THE NINTH INNING

 

Marmol in to pitch (7th), Fontenot in at 2b (9th)

Michaels called out on strikes

Sanchez grounded an IF single to shortstop

McLouth homered to right field , Sanchez scored

Bay called out on strikes

LaRoche popped out (foul) to first base

 

2 runs 2 hits 0 errors 0 men left on base

 

                1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9              R  H  E
Pittsburgh      0 1 0 1 3 0 0 0 2              7 11  2
CUBS            0 3 0 1 0 0 1 0                5  9  0

 

Home runs:

Pittsburgh: McLouth (12)

CUBS: Soriano (9 & 10)

 

Pittsburgh     IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
Duke          6.3  8  4  4  1  4  1 106
Yates         0.7  1  1  1  1  0  1  13
Marte         1.0  0  0  0  0  0  0   7

 

CUBS           IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
Zambrano      4.0  7  5  4  3  3  0  73
Wuertz        2.7  1  0  0  0  1  0  23
Eyre          0.3  0  0  0  0  1  0   4
Lieber        1.0  1  0  0  0  3  0  20
Marmol        1.0  2  2  2  0  2  2  14

[BigSlick]

Great, we just lost a series to the Pirates.

 

hopefully tomorrow's result is the same as the "automatic loss" to jake peavy

I'm so [expletive] conflicted because I want to see Marquis dropped from the rotation but I also don't want to lose a series to the Pirates

[Keener98]

Great, we just lost a series to the Pirates.

Yea cause we may lose with Z pitching there is no chance we'd win with Marquis right? Just like the other night when we lost to Shawn Estes, but beat Peavy? Your over the top exaggeration in every post is ridiculous, and annoying.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

good to see McLouth continue to OPS 200 points better than he ever has in his life

 

When you are a fan of a team that is led offensively by a career scrub minor-league catcher who suddenly learned how to hit, I don't think you can complain about that sort of thing :)

 

Not to mention Sosa.

[Flames24Rulz]

http://www.fangraphs.com/lgraphs/280517116_Pirates_Cubs_73443270_lbig.png

 

Looks like my heart rate.

[BigSlick]

i'm gonna keep saying godd ddamn because there is absolutely no reason why it should be censored

[VanceJergins]

Great, we just lost a series to the Pirates.

 

hopefully tomorrow's result is the same as the "automatic loss" to jake peavy

 

Marquis wasnt pitching.

 

Neither was Dumatrait

[Fred Hornkohl]

Capps in to pitch for Pittsburgh

[TysonCBulls423]

This is why baseball is easily the most painful sport in the world. Only in baseball, you can lose 62 games and be the best team in the league. Blah

[UMFan83]

Wow, I really wasn't even paying attention to this inning, just assuming that Marmol would finish them off with ease.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Um .375 BA for lefties, .108 for righties. No Edmonds?

[TruffleShuffle]

capps is kinda fat

 

why is johnson batting

[Outshined_One]

ATTN: Lou Piniella

 

Reed Johnson cannot hit RHPs worth a damn. Stop it.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Why is Johnson hitting