NLDS Game 3: Cubs (Harden) @ Dodgers (Kuroda) 9:07 TBS

[rynefan]

Harden just doesn't look all that sharp so far.

[windycityfan]

Lou is alive! I like the move.

[vj9999]

I measure pleasure by the pain. I'll be a Cubs fan forever! :)

[AlwaysaCub]

After game 2 I was worried about being turned off to baseball for a long time. Then I thought about my Mets fan roommate, who said the same thing after last year's Mets...but still got his heart broken by this year's team.

Oh yeah, we'll keep coming back. I love baseball too much. Even if I could somehow give up the Cubs, I'd want to follow the sport anyway.

 

 

Not me. I cant think of another team Id want to root for.

 

I like the sport, but I can't really think of another team I would follow either. If the Royals were good I would root for them, but it would never be like rooting for the Cubs. I feel like I was born into this.

[minnesotacubsfan]

Harden just doesn't look all that sharp so far.

 

nobody does

[Andy]

Did we anger the baseball Gods some?

 

This series has proven at least one thing to me.

 

There is no god.

 

At least no loving god.

 

Sure there is. He loves the Padres, and the Giants, and the Braves, and the Marlins, and the Diamondbacks, and the Dodgers.

 

 

I had a Cardinal fan friend try to tell me he understood how I felt. His frame of reference: Getting swept in the '04 World Series and how nervous he was during their pennant-clinching win in Game 7 of the 2006 NLCS.

 

I stared at him incredulously.

LOL. St. Louis fans can not possibly know anything about this. Jeff Weaver's performance in the 2006 World Series. End of story. That one game is more luck than the Cubs have caught in every postseason game they've played in the last hundred years put together.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

If there was some pill that would make you wake up a fan of a different, random baseball pill, how many cobs fans would take it?

 

Right here. Me.

 

You don't have such a pill, do you? Because that would be great!

[rynefan]

These guys are so obsessed with Manny Ramirez it's almost sickening.

[rocket]

jesus dick try to give me a heart attack, will ya?

[AlwaysaCub]

Dick Stockton is rooting for the Dodgers at this point.

[Careless]

did we really let manny tag? How is that possible?

[Hairyducked Idiot]

After game 2 I was worried about being turned off to baseball for a long time. Then I thought about my Mets fan roommate, who said the same thing after last year's Mets...but still got his heart broken by this year's team.

Oh yeah, we'll keep coming back. I love baseball too much. Even if I could somehow give up the Cubs, I'd want to follow the sport anyway.

 

 

Not me. I cant think of another team Id want to root for.

 

I can think of several within a morning's drive of Chicago.

[minnesotacubsfan]

flyballs in chavez at night are good for the defense

 

 

keep it up harden

[Hall7810]

Manny helped the Dodgers stay out of the double play.

[rynefan]

Harden just doesn't look all that sharp so far.

 

nobody does

 

True.

[Fred Hornkohl]

M Ramirez walked (intentionally)

Ethier flied out to center field

[windycityfan]

Gawd. The crowd thought it was gone. I almost died.

[Exile on Waveland]

Does the crowd think every fly ball is a homerun?

[rocket]

WE GOT OUT OF A JAM, WE HAVE SOME MOMENTUM, USE IT DAMMIT

[minnesotacubsfan]

harden is on. flyballs in chavez in the dark is good.

 

real good.

[Fred Hornkohl]

BOTTOM OF THE THIRD INNING

 

Furcal blooped a single to shallow left center field

Furcal took second base on a throwing error, E1

Martin popped out (foul) to the catcher

M Ramirez walked (intentionally)

Ethier flied out to center field

Loney flied out to right field

 

0 runs 1 hits 0 errors 2 men left on base

 

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

 

Home runs:

CUBS: none

Los Angeles: none

 

CUBS           IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
Harden        3.0  4  2  2  1  2  0  54

 

Los Angeles    IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
Kuroda        3.0  3  0  0  1  0  0  48

[Hall7810]

Let's score some runs.

[NotSoSober]

I got scared. Time to score some freakin' runs.

[rickrolled]

5 runs this inning, i believe

[Fred Hornkohl]

                  CUBS     Los Angeles
P/PA              3.69            4.15
RBI%              0.00            0.40
R/BR              0.00            0.40
BA               0.250           0.333
OBP              0.308           0.385
SLG              0.333           0.500
OPS              0.641           0.885
ERA               6.00            0.00
BB/9              3.00            3.00
K/9               6.00            0.00