5/24 Cubs (Marquis) @ Pirates (Dumatrait) 6:05 WGN

[TMan92]

Way to execute Cobs.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Blanco bunted into a FC, 5-6, Soto out at third, Fukudome to second

[Vanilla Ice]

Lou is dumber that rocks. Way to take Lee out of the game for freaking Blanco. Why not just use Z as a pinch hitter? He's a better hitter than Blanco anyway. Dumb, Dumb, Dumb.

 

Because then Wuertz would have to come out of the game, and the Cubs need to have him pitch multiple innings.

 

The pitcher's spot was due up 3rd the next inning. You either have Wuertz bat for himself (which does pretty severe damage to you scoring in the 13th) or you double switch, take your best hitter out, and hope that you win it before he has too many turns at bat. Lou's gambling and trying to win it in the next 2 innings.

 

No. You leave Eyre in there for more than 1 batter. It was a complete waste of a pitcher, and now our best hitter is out of the game and we're basically out of relievers now.

we still have Wuertz for an inning plus, and Ascanio

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Reed sucks.

[CubsGM]

Reed has been bad.

[17 Seconds]

Nice baserunning Geo.

 

No way we score now.

[BigSlick]

jesus

[Fred Hornkohl]

Johnson lined out to shortstop

[haubrich91]

Why is this so hard?

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Holy crap...that was close.

[Outshined_One]

That was nearly a disaster.

[CubsGM]

dsfgasghagsdfg

[17 Seconds]

Back to back walks to start the inning and we're not gonna score. Great

[BigSlick]

im going to threaten physical violence now

[Fred Hornkohl]

Let Kosu hit. Bunt with a weaker hitter, DeRosa next AB.

 

DeRosa's been out of the game for about 8 innings, now.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Ugh....

 

This is not good.

[Outshined_One]

That inning sucked.

[17 Seconds]

Ok Pirates just score. Cubs deserve to lose.

[CubsGM]

Just forfeit

[Little Slide Rooter]

All because Kid Krap had to hit the first batter for the 17th time.

[wekse]

what a joke.

[Yeti]

im going to threaten physical violence now

someone get this guy a pill of some sort

[BigSlick]

damnit, go away guys, i want this damn game now

 

i want it more than anything i've ever wanted

[Fred Hornkohl]

TOP OF THE THIRTEENTH INNING

 

Soto walked

Fukudome walked , Soto to second

Blanco bunted into a FC, 5-6, Soto out at third, Fukudome to second

Johnson lined out to shortstop

Cedeno grounded into a FC, 6-4, Blanco out at second

 

0 runs 0 hits 0 errors 2 men left on base

 

                1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3      R  H  E
CUBS            0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0      4 11  0
Pittsburgh      0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0        4 12  0

 

Home runs:

CUBS: none

Pittsburgh: Bay (12)

 

CUBS           IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
Marquis       5.3  7  3  3  3  2  1  85
Howry         1.7  2  0  0  0  1  0  14
Marmol        1.0  0  0  0  1  3  0  17
Wood          2.0  1  1  1  1  2  0  34
Lieber        1.3  2  0  0  0  1  0  27
Eyre          0.3  0  0  0  0  1  0   0
Wuertz        0.3  0  0  0  0  0  0   3

 

Pittsburgh     IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
Dumatrait     5.7  5  1  1  3  2  0 104
Osoria        0.3  0  0  0  0  1  0   3
Marte         1.0  0  0  0  0  1  0  13
Yates         1.0  3  3  3  2  1  0  27
Capps         3.0  2  0  0  0  2  0  32
Grabow        2.0  1  0  0  2  1  0  38

[TMan92]

First and second and nobody out against John flipping Grabow. Thanks again Woody.