05/12 Padres (Peavy) @ Cubs (Harden) 7:05 CSN+

[Cubswin11]

W

[Outshined_One]

A 1,2,3 for Gregg. I don't recall that happening before.

 

It might be one of those LaTroy Hawkins kinds of things where Gregg is really unreliable when given a one run lead, but when he has more than a one run lead, he does very well.

[Careless]

A 1,2,3 for Gregg. I don't recall that happening before.

He's done it in 3 of his last 4 games

edit: actually, just two of 4

Edited May 13, 2009 by Careless

[coldsteel]

Trivia Fact: The Cubs' leadoff hitter will win the 2009 NL home run title. This team is SO weird!

[Little Slide Rooter]

A 1,2,3 for Gregg. I don't recall that happening before.

He's done it in 3 of his last 4 games

 

Its just that he usually throws 65 pitches in the process.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Tuesday 12 May 2009

San Diego @ CUBS

19:05

 

 

                1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9              R  H  E
San Diego       2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0              2  5  0
CUBS            0 0 0 0 1 2 1 2                6 11  0



San Diego
                     ab   r   h rbi  bb   k lob  sb  cs sac gdp   e  2b  3b  hr  sf  hb
Giles         rf       4   1   1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   0   0   0
Eckstein      2b       3   0   1   0   1   1   1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
A Gonzalez    1b       4   1   2   2   0   0   1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   0
Headley       lf       4   0   0   0   0   3   2   0   0   0   1   0   0   0   0   0   0
Gerut         cf       4   0   1   0   0   1   0   1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Kouzmanoff    3b       4   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Blanco        c        3   0   0   0   0   1   1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
L Rodriguez   ss       2   0   0   0   1   0   1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Peavy         p        2   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Moreno        p        0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Macias        ph       1   0   0   0   0   1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Meredith      p        0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0

totals                31   2   5   2   2   7   8   1   0   0   1   0   1   0   1   0   0



CUBS
                     ab   r   h rbi  bb   k lob  sb  cs sac gdp   e  2b  3b  hr  sf  hb
Soriano       lf       5   0   3   2   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   2   0   0   0   0
Theriot       ss       5   0   0   0   0   1   4   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Fukudome      cf       5   1   3   0   0   2   1   1   0   0   0   0   2   0   0   0   0
D Lee         1b       3   0   0   0   1   3   2   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Bradley       rf       3   1   1   2   1   1   1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   0
Fontenot      3b       3   0   0   0   1   1   4   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Soto          c        3   1   1   0   1   2   1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Miles         2b       4   1   1   0   0   1   2   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Harden        p        1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Heilman       p        0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Scales        ph       1   1   1   1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   0
Marmol        p        0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Hoffpauir     ph       1   1   1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Gregg         p        0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0

totals                34   6  11   5   4  11  15   1   0   1   0   0   4   0   2   0   0



San Diego
                 IP   H   R  ER  BB   K  HR  Pit
Peavy            6.0   6   3   3   2   9   1  111
Moreno           1.0   2   1   1   2   0   1   29
Meredith         1.0   3   2   2   0   2   0   23

totals           8.0  11   6   6   4  11   2  163


CUBS
                 IP   H   R  ER  BB   K  HR  Pit
Harden           6.0   4   2   2   1   5   1  101
Heilman          1.0   1   0   0   0   0   0   17
Marmol           1.0   0   0   0   1   1   0   16
Gregg            1.0   0   0   0   0   1   0   14

totals           9.0   5   2   2   2   7   1  148

W:Harden (4-1)
S:none
L:Peavy (2-5)

T:2:39
A:39,963

Home runs:
San Diego: A Gonzalez (11)
CUBS: Bradley (4), Scales (1)

 

 

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[Butterscup1679666578]

That's a great win. This is really a series we should sweep.

[Little Slide Rooter]

I really hope Scales gets some pt, especially with Fontenot struggling and Aaron Miles being Aaron Miles.

[erik316wttn]

I heard Scales homered. I love his story. Sticking around for 11 years in the minors just so he could possibly know what it was like to play in the Majors some day. How many times he must have daydreamed about his first big-league HR.

 

Good for you, Mickey. I hope you never forget tonight.

[Sammy Sofa]

Scales has hit safely in every game he's been in thus far for the Cubs.

[Fred Hornkohl]

St. Louis      1
Pittsburgh     7  F

Florida        3
Milwaukee      6  F

Houston        1  8
Colorado      11

Cincinnati     2  5
Arizona        0

[rawaction]

Wow. I can't believe this team is 4 games over .500 and 1.5 out of first place.

 

The projected 3-4 and 6 hitters had respective OPS's before tonight of .649, .644, and .492, and have missed a total of about 25 games. The team's best hitter has missed 13 games already. And it's not like the role players have been out of their minds. Fontenot has been mediocre. Miles bad. Reed Johnson no where close to last year. Hoffpauir is doing about what was expected with extended playing time.

 

And it's not like the pitching is carrying them. Coming into this game the 2 best starters from a year ago had ERAs of 4.83 and 4.98. Zambrano wasn't doing much better at 4.50 and is on the DL. The bullpen hasn't really taken control and dominated either, as the back 3 of the pen all had ERAs over 4 and WHIPs of 1.63, 1.60, and 1.53. Patton, Samardzija, Cotts, and Fox also have combined to give up 24 ERs in less than 23 innings.

 

This team is going to be in very good shape when they get healthy and their great players start playing like they should.

 

Hats off to Fukudome, Marshall and Guzman who have all stepped up and performed at the top of their respective groups (offense, SP, RP).

[Little Slide Rooter]

Scales has hit safely in every game he's been in thus far for the Cubs.

 

But hes not white and gritty, so he has no business in the Cubs infield.

[Little Slide Rooter]

I heard Scales homered. I love his story. Sticking around for 11 years in the minors just so he could possibly know what it was like to play in the Majors some day. How many times he must have daydreamed about his first big-league HR.

 

Good for you, Mickey. I hope you never forget tonight.

 

Especially considering his roller coaster ride to get here the past few weeks. First hes flown to Chicago to learn that hes going back. Then He gets up and does OK for himself. Then in comes Freel, and its apparently the end of the line for him. Then down goes Ramirez and he stays some more. Seriosuly between Scales and Freel, they need to shop Miles.

[Guest]

Wow. I can't believe this team is 4 games over .500 and 1.5 out of first place.

 

The projected 3-4 and 6 hitters had respective OPS's before tonight of .649, .644, and .492, and have missed a total of about 25 games. The team's best hitter has missed 13 games already. And it's not like the role players have been out of their minds. Fontenot has been mediocre. Miles bad. Reed Johnson no where close to last year. Hoffpauir is doing about what was expected with extended playing time.

 

And it's not like the pitching is carrying them. Coming into this game the 2 best starters from a year ago had ERAs of 4.83 and 4.98. Zambrano wasn't doing much better at 4.50 and is on the DL. The bullpen hasn't really taken control and dominated either, as the back 3 of the pen all had ERAs over 4 and WHIPs of 1.63, 1.60, and 1.53. Patton, Samardzija, Cotts, and Fox also have combined to give up 24 ERs in less than 23 innings.

 

This team is going to be in very good shape when they get healthy and their great players start playing like they should.

 

Hats off to Fukudome, Marshall and Guzman who have all stepped up and performed at the top of their respective groups (offense, SP, RP).

 

I was talking with one of my friends yesterday and said something similar about it being pretty impressive that the Cubs are a few games over .500 with the injuries and poor play they've gotten from guys who were expected to contribute.

 

Hopefully they can get healthy/start hitting soon.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Dont forget Milton whose home run just landed somewhere in the U.P.

[Guest]

I heard Scales homered. I love his story. Sticking around for 11 years in the minors just so he could possibly know what it was like to play in the Majors some day. How many times he must have daydreamed about his first big-league HR.

 

Good for you, Mickey. I hope you never forget tonight.

 

Especially considering his roller coaster ride to get here the past few weeks. First hes flown to Chicago to learn that hes going back. Then He gets up and does OK for himself. Then in comes Freel, and its apparently the end of the line for him. Then down goes Ramirez and he stays some more. Seriosuly between Scales and Freel, they need to shop Miles.

 

If Miles is going to leave the Cubs, it will be by a DFA rather than a trade.

[erik316wttn]

I heard Scales homered. I love his story. Sticking around for 11 years in the minors just so he could possibly know what it was like to play in the Majors some day. How many times he must have daydreamed about his first big-league HR.

 

Good for you, Mickey. I hope you never forget tonight.

 

Especially considering his roller coaster ride to get here the past few weeks. First hes flown to Chicago to learn that hes going back. Then He gets up and does OK for himself. Then in comes Freel, and its apparently the end of the line for him. Then down goes Ramirez and he stays some more. Seriosuly between Scales and Freel, they need to shop Miles.

 

How many organizations has Scales been in, anyway?

[Little Slide Rooter]

I heard Scales homered. I love his story. Sticking around for 11 years in the minors just so he could possibly know what it was like to play in the Majors some day. How many times he must have daydreamed about his first big-league HR.

 

Good for you, Mickey. I hope you never forget tonight.

 

Especially considering his roller coaster ride to get here the past few weeks. First hes flown to Chicago to learn that hes going back. Then He gets up and does OK for himself. Then in comes Freel, and its apparently the end of the line for him. Then down goes Ramirez and he stays some more. Seriosuly between Scales and Freel, they need to shop Miles.

 

If Miles is going to leave the Cubs, it will be by a DFA rather than a trade.

 

We should have offered up to Oakland whose entire infield pretty much went down at once. Hes really no worse than Adam Kennedy.

[Little Slide Rooter]

I heard Scales homered. I love his story. Sticking around for 11 years in the minors just so he could possibly know what it was like to play in the Majors some day. How many times he must have daydreamed about his first big-league HR.

 

Good for you, Mickey. I hope you never forget tonight.

 

Especially considering his roller coaster ride to get here the past few weeks. First hes flown to Chicago to learn that hes going back. Then He gets up and does OK for himself. Then in comes Freel, and its apparently the end of the line for him. Then down goes Ramirez and he stays some more. Seriosuly between Scales and Freel, they need to shop Miles.

 

How many organizations has Scales been in, anyway?

 

4. He spent 6 in the Pads, 1 each with the Phils and Red Sox and then us.

 

Between him and Hoff, it just goes to show that in future off season we need to start trusting our farm system more, at least for role players rather than going out and making pointless aquisitions like Miles and Gathright.

[Gingerballs Lives]

I heard Scales homered. I love his story. Sticking around for 11 years in the minors just so he could possibly know what it was like to play in the Majors some day. How many times he must have daydreamed about his first big-league HR.

 

Good for you, Mickey. I hope you never forget tonight.

 

Especially considering his roller coaster ride to get here the past few weeks. First hes flown to Chicago to learn that hes going back. Then He gets up and does OK for himself. Then in comes Freel, and its apparently the end of the line for him. Then down goes Ramirez and he stays some more. Seriosuly between Scales and Freel, they need to shop Miles.

 

How many organizations has Scales been in, anyway?

 

4. He spent 6 in the Pads, 1 each with the Phils and Red Sox and then us.

 

Between him and Hoff, it just goes to show that in future off season we need to start trusting our farm system more, at least for role players rather than going out and making pointless aquisitions like Miles and Gathright.

 

Agreed. Paying Miles $4.5 million is ridiculous when you should be able to find that kind of production in your farm system. If a guy like Scales doesn't work out, you can just send them back down and try another one. If Miles doesn't work out, you're stuck paying him.

[Cubswin11]

I heard Scales homered. I love his story. Sticking around for 11 years in the minors just so he could possibly know what it was like to play in the Majors some day. How many times he must have daydreamed about his first big-league HR.

 

Good for you, Mickey. I hope you never forget tonight.

 

Especially considering his roller coaster ride to get here the past few weeks. First hes flown to Chicago to learn that hes going back. Then He gets up and does OK for himself. Then in comes Freel, and its apparently the end of the line for him. Then down goes Ramirez and he stays some more. Seriosuly between Scales and Freel, they need to shop Miles.

 

How many organizations has Scales been in, anyway?

 

4. He spent 6 in the Pads, 1 each with the Phils and Red Sox and then us.

 

Between him and Hoff, it just goes to show that in future off season we need to start trusting our farm system more, at least for role players rather than going out and making pointless aquisitions like Miles and Gathright.

 

Agreed. Paying Miles $4.5 million is ridiculous when you should be able to find that kind of production in your farm system. If a guy like Scales doesn't work out, you can just send them back down and try another one. If Miles doesn't work out, you're stuck paying him.

Especially when there are guys like Ray Durhan and Mark Grudzielanek available in FA still and a guy like Ryan Freel/Adam Kennedy can be had for a little more than a bag of balls and a bat.

[BigSlick]

I heard Scales homered. I love his story. Sticking around for 11 years in the minors just so he could possibly know what it was like to play in the Majors some day. How many times he must have daydreamed about his first big-league HR.

 

Good for you, Mickey. I hope you never forget tonight.

 

Especially considering his roller coaster ride to get here the past few weeks. First hes flown to Chicago to learn that hes going back. Then He gets up and does OK for himself. Then in comes Freel, and its apparently the end of the line for him. Then down goes Ramirez and he stays some more. Seriosuly between Scales and Freel, they need to shop Miles.

Why bother shopping him? We ate Vizcaino's contract, just DFA him and if no one takes eat his contract too

[Schwarber Fan]

Looking at the weather, I'd forget about tonight's game.

[Cubswin11]

Looking at the weather, I'd forget about tonight's game.

Yeah, DH tomorrow?