8/2 the Bucs (Maholm) @ CUBS (Lilly) 12:05 - CSN

[Fred Hornkohl]

CUBS are 45-15 when they score first in the game.... 20-30 when they don't

 

 

Go CUBS !!

[Schwarber Fan]

I wish someone had a stat of how many hits the Cubs have given up to pitchers this year, they must be leading the league

[Mizzou]

For those of us who are getting effed because of Fox's stupid rules... what happened?

[haubrich91]

Awful inning and we're only down 1.

[Outshined_One]

Finally.

 

Lilly might not make it through 3 at this rate.

[Fred Hornkohl]

TOP OF THE SECOND INNING

 

Doumit doubled to down the left field line

An LaRoche walked

Pearce struck out swinging

Moss walked , Doumit to third, An LaRoche to second

Gomez struck out swinging

Maholm grounded an IF single to shortstop , Doumit scored, An LaRoche to third, Moss to second

Rivas struck out swinging

 

1 runs 2 hits 0 errors 3 men left on base

 

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

 

Home runs:

Pittsburgh: none

CUBS: none

 

Pittsburgh     IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
Maholm        1.0  0  0  0  1  0  0  13

 

CUBS           IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
Lilly         2.0  2  1  1  2  3  0  54

[Little Slide Rooter]

180 pitches later.

[rocket]

For those of us who are getting effed because of Fox's stupid rules... what happened?

 

soft little line drive with a lot of back spin that theriot tried to play on the bounce bare-handed, to undesirable results.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Ramirez            AB    R    H   2b   3b   HR  RBI   BB   SO     BA    OBP    SLG    OPS  BABIP  P/PA   IsoD   RBI%
Leading off       100   21   27    7    1    2    2   10   17  0.270  0.342  0.420  0.762  0.309  3.69  0.072  0.000

[Outshined_One]

For those of us who are getting effed because of Fox's stupid rules... what happened?

 

Maholm hit a soft slicing liner to Theriot. Rather than get in front of it, Theriot decided he wanted to get behind it and play it barehanded. Predictable results ensued.

[UMFan83]

Today's lineup by OPS:

 

.898

.771

.833

.873

.765

.795

.843

.711

.434

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

So, am I correct in assuming Lilly has less than his best stuff today?

[BigSlick]

Can we actually get to Maholm, lay about 9 runs on him and take the series with Z on the mound tomorrow?

 

No? Too much to ask for?

[Billy_Buck]

For those of us who are getting effed because of Fox's stupid rules... what happened?

Weak, lazy floater went about 80 feet... Theriot tried to play it bare-handed on one bounce going to his right, but with the spin and all, he didn't come up with it. Brenly (and I) thought he had plenty o' time to glove it and throw out Maholm. Weak play.

[Outshined_One]

So, am I correct in assuming Lilly has less than his best stuff today?

 

He's not hitting his spots and the Pirates are keyed in on his offspeed stuff.

[Fred Hornkohl]

A Ramirez doubled to left field

[genbar]

Good start.

[Fred Hornkohl]

CUBS are 59-35 when they hit at least 1 double.... 6-9 when they don't

 

 

Go CUBS !!

[CubColtPacer]

I wish someone had a stat of how many hits the Cubs have given up to pitchers this year, they must be leading the league

 

I can't get quite to that stat, but:

 

the Cubs are 10th out of 16 against the 9 spot in BA. 7th out of 16 in OBP, and 11th out of 16 in OPS.

 

That of course includes pinch-hitters, but gives you a pretty good idea of how the Cubs are in facing pitchers this year.

[haubrich91]

Hey, we get a break.

[Billy_Buck]

Brandon Moss with the first entry for today's Ryan Braun dive-no-catch award.

[rocket]

lame double, but i'll take it

[Fred Hornkohl]

Johnson            AB    R    H   2b   3b   HR  RBI   BB   SO     BA    OBP    SLG    OPS  BABIP  P/PA   IsoD   RBI%
scoring pos        61   12   23    3    0    3   35    7    7  0.377  0.432  0.574  1.006  0.392  3.76  0.055  0.356

[BigSlick]

The scary thing is with how terribly Lilly has been throwing it should still be scoreless.

 

Oh well.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Johnson singled to right field , A Ramirez to third