7/4 CubZ (Z!) at Red Birds (Looper) 7:15p WGN TV/Radio XM186

[gflore34]

Nice to see the Cubs' opposition burned by some questionable strike calls especially when that opposition is the Cardinals. Also Kerry Wood rendered Pujols 300th HR one of the most meaningless 300th HR's in history - sweet.

[UMFan83]

Why aren't the Cubs wearing their traditional road caps (blue with red bill)? I noticed they weren't like that in SF either. Sorry if its been asked before, I've been out of the loop.

 

Please don't be serious.

 

Yeah man like I've said, I have been out of the loop. First chance to watch a Cubs game and get online in a few days.

[Derwood]

that was a bit of alright

[Fred Hornkohl]

Friday 04 July 2008

CUBS @ St. Louis

19:15

 

 

                1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9              R  H  E
CUBS            1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0              2  8  0
St. Louis       0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0              1  6  0



CUBS
                     ab   r   h rbi  bb   k lob  sb  cs sac gdp   e  2b  3b  hr  sf  hb
Johnson       lf       4   0   0   0   0   1   2   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Fukudome      rf       4   1   1   1   0   2   2   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   0
D Lee         1b       4   0   2   0   0   0   1   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   0   0   0
Ramirez       3b       4   0   0   0   0   0   2   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Edmonds       cf       4   0   0   0   0   3   1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Soto          c        3   1   3   1   1   0   0   0   1   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   0
DeRosa        2b       4   0   0   0   0   1   2   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Theriot       ss       4   0   1   0   0   0   2   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Zambrano      p        3   0   1   0   0   0   1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Howry         p        0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Cotts         p        0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Wood          p        0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0

totals                34   2   8   2   1   7  13   0   1   0   0   0   1   0   2   0   0



St. Louis
                     ab   r   h rbi  bb   k lob  sb  cs sac gdp   e  2b  3b  hr  sf  hb
Schumaker     rf       4   0   1   0   0   0   1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Miles         ss       4   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Pujols        1b       4   1   2   1   0   1   1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   0
Ankiel        cf       3   0   0   0   1   1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Glaus         3b       4   0   0   0   0   2   2   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Duncan        lf       3   0   0   0   1   1   2   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Molina        c        4   0   2   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Ryan          pr       0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Looper        p        2   0   0   0   0   2   2   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Barton        ph       1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Springer      p        0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Isringhausen  p        0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Ludwick       ph       1   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Kennedy       2b       2   0   1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0

totals                32   1   6   1   2   7  10   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   0



CUBS
                 IP   H   R  ER  BB   K  HR  Pit
Zambrano         6.0   4   0   0   2   5   0   87
Howry            1.7   1   1   1   0   0   1   16
Cotts            0.3   0   0   0   0   1   0   5
Wood             1.0   1   0   0   0   1   0   16

totals           9.0   6   1   1   2   7   1  124


St. Louis
                 IP   H   R  ER  BB   K  HR  Pit
Looper           7.0   6   2   2   1   5   2  120
Springer         1.0   1   0   0   0   1   0   13
Isringhausen     1.0   1   0   0   0   1   0   21

totals           9.0   8   2   2   1   7   2  154



Home runs:
CUBS: Fukudome (7), Soto (14)
St. Louis: Pujols (18)

W: Zambrano (9-3)
S: Wood (22)
L: Looper (9-6)

T: 2:40
A: 46,450

 

 

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[Mark_R]

As we speak, the waterworks are drowning out the fireworks. i love it.

[Outshined_One]

Awesome win tonight. :D

[SouthSideRyan]

Troy Glaus is a total jagoff.

 

Can you blame him? That was terrible

 

So was ball 2.

[Bruno7481]

That was a very well played game, and fun to watch.

 

Winning the first game is always nice.

[imb]

A little scared.

 

If we win its a decent win...if we lose its a horrible horrible devistating loss.

 

Not much to gain here

 

take a breath, dude, we're an out away from winning game one against our chief rivals and the team directly below us in the standings on the road. this is a HUGE win

 

He's a little melodramatic at times...

 

Not really...I just think there is much more to lose in losing this game at this point than there is to gain by winning...I obviously hope we win

 

You can't freak out about how the cardinals won't go away with one breath and then say this win isn't a big one with the other.

[Fred Hornkohl]

CUBS are 10-0 with Dana DeMuth's crew on the field.

 

 

Go CUBS !!

[Keener98]

Welcome back Z, we missed ya buddy

[RonnieWooWooSanto]

Why aren't the Cubs wearing their traditional road caps (blue with red bill)? I noticed they weren't like that in SF either. Sorry if its been asked before, I've been out of the loop.

 

Every team in baseball today is wearing the special 4th of July hats. They're trying to do it at least once in each ballpark, which is why they were worn in SF.

 

Except the White Sox who went with the camouflage today.

 

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g_WAoRwxI__bu620gJAPoMJqPToQD91NDI800

[BigSlick]

The schadenfreude I felt when the ump ringed up Glaus in the 9th was possibly the best feeling the in the world

[gflore34]

The schadenfreude I felt when the ump ringed up Glaus in the 9th was possibly the best feeling the in the world

 

It was great wasn't it?

[Derwood]

The schadenfreude I felt when the ump ringed up Glaus in the 9th was possibly the best feeling the in the world

 

It was great wasn't it?

 

he got jobbed by the ump, but i'll take it

[CubsBears29]

The schadenfreude I felt when the ump ringed up Glaus in the 9th was possibly the best feeling the in the world

 

It was great wasn't it?

 

he got jobbed by the ump, but i'll take it

 

He got jobbed, but some would say he deserved to be called out on that last pitch for so vehemently showing the ump up on the previous one.

 

He must be as stupid as he looks, cause how he didn't know that Wood would throw the exact same pitch right after that is unfeasible.

 

 

Woody really did get some "early 90s ATL pitching staff" strike calls on those last two though, no doubts about it. WTG Woody! :clapping:

[wild_cubs71]

The schadenfreude I felt when the ump ringed up Glaus in the 9th was possibly the best feeling the in the world

 

It was great wasn't it?

 

he got jobbed by the ump, but i'll take it

 

The way he reacted to the previous strike called he should been gone anyway, cussin towards the ump like he did....a wins a win, i'll take it =D>

[Keener98]

If Glaus isnt a bitch on strike 2 he probably gets strike 3 called a ball. But after the way he acted he should have been swinging at anything relatively close plain and simple. Hell one could argue Glaus shouldnt even been allowed to finish the AB because Ive seen players kicked out for a lot less than what Troy Glaus did tonight.

[TruffleShuffle]

If Glaus isnt a bitch on strike 2 he probably gets strike 3 called a ball. But after the way he acted he should have been swinging at anything relatively close plain and simple. Hell one could argue Glaus shouldnt even been allowed to finish the AB because Ive seen players kicked out for a lot less than what Troy Glaus did tonight.

 

to be fair, steroids do have a known link to angry outbursts.

[mtozz]

The schadenfreude I felt when the ump ringed up Glaus in the 9th was possibly the best feeling the in the world

 

It was great wasn't it?

 

he got jobbed by the ump, but i'll take it

 

Finally a cooler head, and a purist fan. Let me introduce. Ive been a lurker for a couple years and they say a good opposing fan can find some reality based discussion here. Well like our forum, you have to take the bad with the good. The get-a-life crowd on both sides is appalling and should do that.

 

Cards fan, resident STL. Think our rivalry is way better than NYY BOS. Been to some of those. Those people are just drunks.

 

GReat game. Pitch duel. 3 dingers, the greatest play in sports. You got two, we got one, you win. Congrats. Z was brilliant of the DL, I thought he might have issues. Looper, two mistakes otherwise terrific. Wood, wow, he's found a new home in the pen. Poor Jimmy Ed, just not good tonight. But (jokingly) he's on your side so thats ok. And Marquis dont get any of us started!

 

Home plate ump is a jo. Four strikes in bottom 9th not called all game, 2 on GLaus, 1 Molina, one Ludwick. Im not saying that just for us, its been that way all year in the majors. Tonight was our turn. If leadoff (Glaus) walks (which should have based on the pitch) who knows. Maybe would strikes the next three out. maybe not. MLB has got to fix the umpiring across the board. It may cost you big time. You just dont know when. And they seem to want to pick fights. Nuts.

 

The greatest rivalry lives on.

 

Oh to help a few. The drive home doesnt go thru East St Louis--wrong direction. No tears in our town tonight, what do we have to cry about---oh never mind I wont go there. Cant by a tractor in St Louis, but you can in Illinois. And Ive sat in the righ field bleachers for our series for 14 years up there, the same ding dongs we have, you have em too. Just more of them, its a population thing. But lets not have a counting lesson for them.

 

Lilly/Lohse should be a great one Saturday. Be back then. Dont blow your hand off with fireworks tonight.

 

Cheers.

[RonnieWooWooSanto]

If Glaus isnt a bitch on strike 2 he probably gets strike 3 called a ball. But after the way he acted he should have been swinging at anything relatively close plain and simple. Hell one could argue Glaus shouldnt even been allowed to finish the AB because Ive seen players kicked out for a lot less than what Troy Glaus did tonight.

 

to be fair, steroids do have a known link to angry outbursts.

 

 

He can't afford any fines due to his anger or it might jeopardize the money earned that is alotted to his wife's equestrian training.

 

$0.25M annually for personal business expenses (wife's equestrian training)

[abuck1220]

how 'bout that cardinal pixie dust on those strikes to glaus? argh...cardinals are SO LUCKY!

[Ski]

Sweet win! I was out all night with some buddies from work, so it was good to come home to a Cubs win :D

 

I was almost right with my prediction with Z. I predicted 6 IP, 4 H, 1 ER. Instead he gave up 0 ER. No problem with that :D

[98navigator]

Nice to see the Cubs' opposition burned by some questionable strike calls especially when that opposition is the Cardinals. Also Kerry Wood rendered Pujols 300th HR one of the most meaningless 300th HR's in history - sweet.

 

FYI, Howry gave up the homer not Kerry. :)

[BCVM22]

Nice to see the Cubs' opposition burned by some questionable strike calls especially when that opposition is the Cardinals. Also Kerry Wood rendered Pujols 300th HR one of the most meaningless 300th HR's in history - sweet.

 

FYI, Howry gave up the homer not Kerry. :)

 

But Kerry's scoreless 9th and resulting save ensured that Pujols' 300th came in a losing effort.