6/8 Cubs (Marquis) @ Dodgers (Penny), 7:05 PM, ESPN

[otis89]

Whoever came up with that Taco Bell commercial should be shot.

[SABR Gamer]

Positive: Cubs are winning

 

Negative: This start has bought Jason Marquis more time in the rotation.

[SABR Gamer]

Whoever came up with that Taco Bell commercial should be shot.

 

 

I only see it like 45 times a day...(kill me now)

[17 Seconds]

Anybody else terrified of Marquis pitching with a lead now?

[CubsGM]

Alright, 2 run lead. Marquis hates leads.

[Little Slide Rooter]

sometimes i wonder if jon miller brings up walks and offensive patience just to f*** with joe morgan

 

lay off Morgan. He gives us important insight, like a pitcher batting .200 is the equivilant of a position player batting .300.

[17 Seconds]

TOP OF THE FIFTH INNING

 

Soriano doubled to down the left field line

DeRosa doubled to down the right field line , Soriano scored

DeRosa took second on a wild pitch

D Lee grounded out to second, 4-3 , DeRosa to third

Ramirez doubled to down the left field line , DeRosa scored

Fukudome struck out swinging

Soto flied out to deep left field

 

2 runs 3 hits 0 errors 1 men left on base

 

                1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9              R  H  E
CUBS            1 0 0 0 2                      3  6  1
Los Angeles     1 0 0 0                        1  1  0

 

Home runs:

CUBS: DeRosa (8)

Los Angeles: none

 

CUBS           IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
Marquis       4.0  1  1  0  0  0  0  40

 

Los Angeles    IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
Penny         5.0  6  3  3  3  3  1 100

 

For the record, Derosa didn't double. He singled and moved up on a wild pitch.

[TruffleShuffle]

Anybody else terrified of Marquis pitching with a lead now?

 

i'm expecting fangraphs to realize that marquis is still in the game for the cubs and decrease the cubs' chance of winning to 50%.

[bhogg]

A couple of things:

 

1) There is probably not more than 3 or 4 (if that) slugging left handed hitting centerfielders in the entire world. None of them are available. Just taking a guess on that.

 

2) I thought Soto hit that last ball harder than what the results showed.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Marquis' WHIP tonight is 0.25 !! That's downright respectable !!

[CubsGM]

Positive: Cubs are winning

 

Negative: This start has bought Jason Marquis more time in the rotation.

If he continues pitching like this I will be more than happy to keep him in the rotation.

[illiniguy]

A couple of things:

 

1) There is probably not more than 3 or 4 (if that) slugging left handed hitting centerfielders in the entire world. None of them are available. Just taking a guess on that.

 

2) I thought Soto hit that last ball harder than what the results showed.

Yeah on both accounts.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Loney singled to left field

[otis89]

sometimes i wonder if jon miller brings up walks and offensive patience just to f*** with joe morgan

 

lay off Morgan. He gives us important insight, like a pitcher batting .200 is the equivilant of a position player batting .300.

 

That must mean that Z is a better hitter than Chipper.

[CubsGM]

Yep here we go.

[17 Seconds]

Annndddd here we go

[ChiCubsfan0502]

Cubs get the lead and Marquis, as usual, allows the leadoff single.

[illiniguy]

sometimes i wonder if jon miller brings up walks and offensive patience just to f*** with joe morgan

 

lay off Morgan. He gives us important insight, like a pitcher batting .200 is the equivilant of a position player batting .300.

 

That must mean that Z is a better hitter than Chipper.

When it comes to water jugs and horrible catchers he is.

[UMFan83]

I think Soto is starting to turn it around. He's not getting the solid contact and line drives yet, but in the past week I've noticed that he's gone back to being more patient. That last AB was pretty good.

[SABR Gamer]

Thanks for letting us know Joe, I had no idea that scoring a lot of runs helps you lead the league in runs.

[Fred Hornkohl]

 

For the record, Derosa didn't double. He singled and moved up on a wild pitch.

 

Gotcha, thanx !!

[SABR Gamer]

Positive: Cubs are winning

 

Negative: This start has bought Jason Marquis more time in the rotation.

If he continues pitching like this I will be more than happy to keep him in the rotation.

 

Neifi Perez had a handful of good games too.

[illiniguy]

Thanks for letting us know Joe, I had no idea that scoring a lot of runs helps you lead the league in runs.

You know the team that wins the most games usually makes the playoffs too.

[TruffleShuffle]

ah, so the cubs are patient because they're veteran players. i seem to recall a lot of veteran-laden cub teams in the bottom quarter of the league in OBP.

[otis89]

Strike 3!