7/22 Cubs (Zambrano) at Cardinals (Carpenter), 7:10 pm, WGN

[MeatampPotatoesMan]

YES!!!!

 

Z is a stud.

[Blueheart05]

Pooh is 0-4

 

My stomach was in knots during that AB

[TruffleShuffle]

One thing I admire so much about Pujols is how he will just stand there and go down 0-2 if he doesn't get the pitch he's looking for. And then when it's 0-2, he'll still lay off the bad ones and foul off the tough strikes. When some guys (i.e., Corey Patterson) get down 0-2 the AB might as well be over.

[Fred Hornkohl]

BOTTOM OF THE NINTH INNING

 

Exkstein struck out (called)

Rodriguez popped out to shortstop

Pujols grounded out to short, 6-3

 

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 men left on base

 

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

 

Home runs: St. Louis: Rodriguez (2)

 

pitcher     IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
Zambrano   9.0  3  1  1  0 12  1 118 

[Outshined_One]

Odds on Macias PHing for Zambrano?

[Stomper90]

Ugh I got Izzy on my fantasy team and am in a heated contest in ERA, WHIP, and Losses...

 

UGH!

[Transmogrified Tiger]

What a fantastic game.

 

Let Z hit, then replace him.

[USSoccer]

C'mon offense!

[Brian]

Hopefully Todd can come trough in the 10th!

[Coach C]

Zambrano wanted to go one more, but good move by Dusty. I know our pen is very shaky, but Zambrano's PC is too high.

[USSoccer]

Lets go Jody!

[Blueheart05]

=D> for Big Z

 

Outstanding performance

[USSoccer]

lean into it Jody!

[Blueheart05]

Odds on Macias PHing for Zambrano?

 

Gerut

[Roast]

Z was begging for dusty to let him back out.

 

He went to the bench afterwards with his head down, upset he couldnt play more.

 

Barrett came over and gave him a huge hug.

 

Great dugout camera work by WGN,

 

and Z is awesome.

[TruffleShuffle]

Guarantee you Z came back to the dugout wanting to head up to bat.

 

I bet the number of NSBB posters saying it wouldn't be a terrible idea to trade Z declined by a bit tonight... :lol:

[Blueheart05]

Izzy hasnt thrown a strike :evil: :evil: :evil:

[Omar]

Rusch warming up.. so Mitre will start in the place of Wood or 4 man rotation?

[Coach C]

*sigh*

[Jon]

5 pitches in that AB and none of them were that close to the strike zone.

[Flames24Rulz]

dang it...Gerut is due for a hit sometime.

[Stomper90]

Somebody slap that idiot Cards fan with glasses on.

[JoshiQ]

...Gerut swung and missed at the same three pitches!

[USSoccer]

Bad AB for Gerut. 0-6 now....

 

 

And BTW, please don't put in Rusch.

[YearofDaCubs]

Gerut looked bad out there. Hmmm.