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

[TruffleShuffle]

ryan doumit's BABIP has to be like .400 this year... i don't know what the hell has gotten into him.

 

.347 BABIP in 08

 

that's not as high as i would've expected, actually. he's a really good fastball hitter; i guess his defense sucks, but when your catcher is OPS'ing over .900 you don't really worry about that.

[Fred Hornkohl]

D Lee              AB    R    H   2b   3b   HR  RBI   BB   SO     BA    OBP    SLG    OPS  BABIP  P/PA   IsoD   RBI%
bases empty       249   39   72   15    3   13   13   24   45  0.289  0.352  0.530  0.882  0.309  3.97  0.062  0.000

[TruffleShuffle]

Out of curiosity, why is Kosuke in a virtual platoon? Do think Lou is only giving him starts vs. RHP in order to get his bat going again, or is this something that he's going to be doing the rest of the year? $12 million for a platoon player seems stupid.

 

.739 OPS vs lhp. if the cubs can get better production against lefties with him on the bench, it would be stupid to keep him in the lineup just because of how much he gets paid, come on dude.

 

Yeah and who are they replace him with in the lineup? Ronny Cedeno and his .689 OPS vs. LHP

 

That's a good point. I always forget the Ronny has reverse splits.

 

so does lou.

 

although i'm cool with ronny/fontenot getting spot starts to keep theriot and derosa fresh for october.

[Fred Hornkohl]

D Lee walked

[BigSlick]

D Lee              AB    R    H   2b   3b   HR  RBI   BB   SO     BA    OBP    SLG    OPS  BABIP  P/PA   IsoD   RBI%
bases empty       249   39   72   15    3   13   13   24   45  0.289  0.352  0.530  0.882  0.309  3.97  0.062  0.000

I'm going to be fake angry that Lee has a high slugging with bases empty

 

Yay for Derrek, he only has one actual at bat today with 4 plate appearances

[Fred Hornkohl]

Ramirez            AB    R    H   2b   3b   HR  RBI   BB   SO     BA    OBP    SLG    OPS  BABIP  P/PA   IsoD   RBI%
runners on        184   32   56   16    0   10   64   25   31  0.304  0.403  0.554  0.957  0.322  4.12  0.098  0.245

[illiniguy]

ryan doumit's BABIP has to be like .400 this year... i don't know what the hell has gotten into him.

 

.347 BABIP in 08

 

that's not as high as i would've expected, actually. he's a really good fastball hitter; i guess his defense sucks, but when your catcher is OPS'ing over .900 you don't really worry about that.

They have a guy do this every year. Sanchez was really good one year too. Wilson had a decent year. If he stays that good they will just trade him away.

[BigSlick]

ryan doumit's BABIP has to be like .400 this year... i don't know what the hell has gotten into him.

 

.347 BABIP in 08

 

that's not as high as i would've expected, actually. he's a really good fastball hitter; i guess his defense sucks, but when your catcher is OPS'ing over .900 you don't really worry about that.

They have a guy do this every year. Sanchez was really good one year too. Wilson had a decent year. If he stays that good they will just trade him away.

They should have traded Jack Wilson like 4 years ago, now he's basically worthless and has a bloated contract

[98navigator]

Thats well, thats a good inning for Howry

 

That's Bob Howry + Pirates offense

 

Bob Howry + most other offenses = 2 or more runs

 

Aren't the Pirates right behind (or close to) the Cubs in runs scored? I know Bay and Nady are gone but they still can score. I'll give Bob the credit for keeping them from scoring.

[BigSlick]

Thats well, thats a good inning for Howry

 

That's Bob Howry + Pirates offense

 

Bob Howry + most other offenses = 2 or more runs

 

Aren't the Pirates right behind (or close to) the Cubs in runs scored? I know Bay and Nady are gone but they still can score. I'll give Bob the credit for keeping them from scoring.

eh not really, Bay and Nady are both gone, they aren't scoring much

[UMFan83]

ryan doumit's BABIP has to be like .400 this year... i don't know what the hell has gotten into him.

 

.347 BABIP in 08

 

that's not as high as i would've expected, actually. he's a really good fastball hitter; i guess his defense sucks, but when your catcher is OPS'ing over .900 you don't really worry about that.

They have a guy do this every year. Sanchez was really good one year too. Wilson had a decent year. If he stays that good they will just trade him away.

 

Their pitchers too with Snell, Duke, Oliver Perez, now possibly Maholm. Really weird team those Pittsburgh Pirates.

[Guest]

Didn't Rammy hit one yesterday that hooked foul?

[Fred Hornkohl]

A Ramirez struck out swinging D Lee stole second

[bcruise]

Ronny sounds like he's stuck in a Chris Berman-esque endless loop of "back"'s...:lol:

[BigSlick]

Lets all congratulate Lee for a stolen base when he should have easily walked to second if we didn't have Aramis swinging at anything

[Outshined_One]

Lets all congratulate Lee for a stolen base when he should have easily walked to second if we didn't have Aramis swinging at anything

 

I'm going to have to check the replay, but that looked like a straight steal.

[Guest]

Thats well, thats a good inning for Howry

 

That's Bob Howry + Pirates offense

 

Bob Howry + most other offenses = 2 or more runs

 

Aren't the Pirates right behind (or close to) the Cubs in runs scored? I know Bay and Nady are gone but they still can score. I'll give Bob the credit for keeping them from scoring.

 

44 runs behind coming into today. And it was the heart of the Pirates order too.

[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]

Lets all congratulate Lee for a stolen base when he should have easily walked to second if we didn't have Aramis swinging at anything

 

I'm going to have to check the replay, but that looked like a straight steal.

Even dumber

 

Someone send Lou an e-mail begging him to stop sending runners

[Fred Hornkohl]

Last time the CUBS made 3 SB in a game.... Mon 28 July 08 (3 SB) in a 6-4 win at Milwaukee

 

 

Go CUBS !!

[UMFan83]

Lets all congratulate Lee for a stolen base when he should have easily walked to second if we didn't have Aramis swinging at anything

 

I'm going to have to check the replay, but that looked like a straight steal.

 

Straight steal on a 3-2 count.

[Outshined_One]

Lets all congratulate Lee for a stolen base when he should have easily walked to second if we didn't have Aramis swinging at anything

 

I'm going to have to check the replay, but that looked like a straight steal.

Even dumber

 

Someone send Lou an e-mail begging him to stop sending runners

 

Eh, it was a decent move on Lee's part. Beam never checked him and he got a running lead.

[BigSlick]

Our offense has been really bizarre today, still not very encouraged.

 

I just want to beat up the Pirates normally, can we do that again?

 

EDIT: I demand a 9-0 beatdown with Z on the mound tomorrow

Edited August 2, 2008 by BigSlick

[Fred Hornkohl]

BOTTOM OF THE EIGHTH INNING

 

Theriot flied out to right field

D Lee walked

A Ramirez struck out swinging D Lee stole second

Johnson struck out swinging

 

0 runs 0 hits 0 errors 1 men left on base

 

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

 

Home runs:

Pittsburgh: none

CUBS: none

 

Pittsburgh     IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
Maholm        6.0  8  5  5  2  2  0  84
Davis         2.0  1  0  0  1  2  0  32

 

CUBS           IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
Lilly         6.3  6  1  1  3  5  0 111
Gaudin        0.7  0  0  0  0  1  0   7
Howry         1.0  2  0  0  0  1  0  16

[Fred Hornkohl]

            Pittsburgh            CUBS
P/PA              4.06            3.63
RBI%              0.05            0.19
R/BR              0.09            0.42
BA               0.267           0.321
OBP              0.333           0.387
SLG              0.333           0.393
OPS              0.667           0.780
ERA               5.63            1.13
BB/9              3.38            3.38
K/9               4.50            7.88