8/20 Cubs (Rusch) @ Rockies (Cook), 7:05 pm WGN

[Southpaw191679666239]

http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/images/players/mugshot/ph_121556.jpg vs http://colorado.rockies.mlb.com/images/players/mugshot/ph_346871.jpg

 

Glendon James Rusch ( 5-5, 4.28 ) vs Aaron Lane Cook (1-1, 5.16)

 

Thanks to Serena for allowing me to try to keep the streak going. There was a misunderstanding in regards to the off-day, but I'm hoping this winning thing can keep rolling! :)

[Chris]

We got this one

[Omar]

Hope Rusch has a better outing this time.. Hopefully his previous outing was poor because he did not start for a long time.

[Balsa]

Lets GET IT ON!

 

Hopefully their pitcher sucks more.

[Marco4]

Lets all hope the happy/sad pitcher portraits pan through the game.

 

:lol:

 

GO CUBS!

[Outshined_One]

Cook looks like he went and sobbed for a few hours after getting his picture taken.

 

What a baby!

[Derwood]

I'll start posting these in the daily game threads:

 

NL Wild Card Standings (Start of Day, 8/20)
HOU   ---
FLA   0.5
PHI   0.5
WSH   1.0
NYM   2.5
CHC   5.0
MIL   5.5

Best case scenario today:

CHC defeats COL
MIL defeats HOU
LAD defeats FLA
NYM defeats WSH
PIT defeats PHI

Edited August 20, 2005 by Derwood

[chicubs]

Derwood, slight mistake. You have Pit beating Pit instead of Phi.

[otis89]

Rusch better bounce back from his last start. Or else.

[Derwood]

Derwood, slight mistake. You have Pit beating Pit instead of Phi.

 

fixed, thanks!

[Laura]

FLASHCHAT TONIGHT

[Jazz]

definately up for a flashchat, havent had been to one in a while.

 

At this point, we should be hoping the cubs win, and take this day by day, and let the other teams beat up on each other. To get to 90 wins, we can only lose 10 games the rest of the way, we need a few A's like hot streaks to make this possible.

 

GO CUBS!

[OldHappyCubFan]

FREAKING WIN BUMS!

[Fred Hornkohl]

Worthless stats of the day......

 

CUBS are 8-11 on Saturdays

CUBS are 4-1 vs. Colorado

CUBS are 29-28 at night.

CUBS are 30-32 on the road.

CUBS are 34-24 when they've won the previous game.... 25-38 after a loss

CUBS are 3-5 when they've won their previous 3 games

CUBS are 16-10 when the temperature is 85 degrees or above

CUBS are 38-17 when they make at least 10 hits, 21-45 when they don't.

CUBS are 22-11 when they take 4 or more walks, 37-51 when they don't

CUBS are 48-44 when they strikeout 7 times or less, 11-18 when they k 8 or more times.

CUBS are 27-37 when they GIDP, 32-25 when they don't

CUBS are 27-34 when they commit an error, 32-28 when they don't

CUBS are 29-14 when they hit at least 2 HRs, 30-49 when they don't

 

CUBS are 5-6 when Rusch starts

Rusch is 5 of 11 in quality starts

Rusch's ERA pitching to Barrett is 3.84.... Rusch has not pitched to Blanco

CUBS score 4.44 R/G overall.... 3.73 R/G when Rusch pitches

CUBS hit 1.24 HR/G overall.... 1.36 HR/G when Rusch pitches

 

CUBS' offensive support of Rusch.....

 

04/04 - 08/19      AB    R    H   2b   3b   HR   TB  RBI   BB   SO     BA    OBP    SLG    OPS
CUBS w/Rusch      357   41   88   15    2   15  152   37   34   63  0.246  0.312  0.426  0.738
CUBS overall     4219  542 1150  246   18  151 1885  518  320  691  0.273  0.327  0.447  0.774

 

Rusch's last five starts.....

 

Rusch             IP    H    R   ER   BB    K   HR    PC  BB/9   K/9  HR/9  WHIP   ERA
08/15 vs. Houst  3.3   10    5    5    2    4    1    92  5.40 10.80  2.70  3.60 13.50
06/23 vs. Milw   6.0    7    4    4    3    2    2   103  4.50  3.00  3.00  1.67  6.00
06/18 vs. Yanks  5.0    9    5    4    1    3    0    98  1.80  5.40  0.00  2.00  7.20
06/12 vs. Bost   5.7   11    5    5    1    7    2   114  1.59 11.12  3.18  2.12  7.94
06/07 vs. Toro   6.0    4    3    2    3    2    0   103  4.50  3.00  0.00  1.17  3.00

5 game totals   26.0   41   22   20   10   18    5   510  3.46  6.23  1.73  1.96  6.92

 

Rusch's prvious start vs. Colorado.....

 

Rusch             IP    H    R   ER   BB    K   HR    PC  BB/9   K/9  HR/9  WHIP   ERA
05/28 vs. Colo   7.0    4    1    1    3    4    0   113  3.86  5.14  0.00  1.00  1.29

 

Rusch's splits.....

 

Rusch             IP    H    R   ER   BB    K   HR    PC  BB/9   K/9  HR/9  WHIP   ERA
Home            49.0   57   20   18   17   41    5   863  3.12  7.53  0.92  1.51  3.31
Road            51.7   62   31   30   25   40    5   951  4.35  6.97  0.87  1.68  5.23

Day             47.3   58   23   21   26   37    4   882  4.94  7.04  0.76  1.77  3.99
Nite            53.3   61   28   27   16   44    6   932  2.70  7.43  1.01  1.44  4.56

season totals  100.7  119   51   48   42   81   10  1814  3.75  7.24  0.89  1.60  4.29

 

CUBS' season series vs. Colorado.....

 

Gm#    Date       Opponent         Score  Starter
45  Thu 05/26    Colorado          2- 5  Zambrano      
46  Fri 05/27    Colorado         10- 3  Prior        
47  Sat 05/28    Colorado          5- 1  Rusch        
48  Sun 05/29    Colorado         11- 6  Mitre        
122  Fri 08/19  @ Colorado          5- 3  Prior        
123  Sat 08/20  @ Colorado      N    -    Rusch        
124  Sun 08/21  @ Colorado           -    Maddux        

 

CUBS' hitters vs. Colorado.....

 

CUBS               AB    R    H   2B   3B   HR   TB  RBI   BB   SO     BA    OBP    SLG    OPS
Lee                18   10   10    0    0    4   22    7    5    0  0.556  0.652  1.222  1.874
Ramirez            21    3    9    1    0    2   16    8    2    4  0.429  0.478  0.762  1.240
Walker             12    4    4    0    1    1    9    3    3    2  0.333  0.467  0.750  1.217
Perez              21    4    9    2    0    1   14    4    2    2  0.429  0.478  0.667  1.145
Barrett             9    1    3    2    0    0    5    0    2    0  0.333  0.500  0.556  1.056
Patterson          21    1    6    1    0    1   10    2    0    3  0.286  0.286  0.476  0.762
Dubois             13    1    3    2    0    0    5    1    2    4  0.231  0.333  0.385  0.718
Burnitz            23    3    6    0    0    1    9    6    0    2  0.261  0.261  0.391  0.652
Hairston           10    5    2    1    0    0    3    0    2    1  0.200  0.333  0.300  0.633
Hollandsworth       3    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    1    0  0.000  0.250  0.000  0.250
Blanco              7    0    0    0    0    0    0    1    0    1  0.000  0.000  0.000  0.000
Lawton              4    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0  0.000  0.000  0.000  0.000
Macias              2    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    1  0.000  0.000  0.000  0.000
Wilson              1    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    1  0.000  0.000  0.000  0.000

vs. Colo          177   33   54    9    1   10   95   32   19   25  0.305  0.376  0.537  0.912

overall          4219  542 1150  244   19  150 1882  519  320  688  0.273  0.327  0.446  0.773

 

CUBS' pitchers vs. Colorado.....

 

CUBS                 IP    H    R   ER   BB    K   HR    PC  BB/9   K/9  HR/9  WHIP   ERA
Wellemeyer          3.7    0    0    0    3    2    0    46  7.36  4.91  0.00  0.82  0.00
Dempster            2.0    1    0    0    0    2    0    27  0.00  9.00  0.00  0.50  0.00
Wuertz              2.0    1    0    0    0    2    0    24  0.00  9.00  0.00  0.50  0.00
Hawkins             1.0    2    0    0    1    1    0    24  9.00  9.00  0.00  3.00  0.00
Wood                1.0    0    0    0    1    2    0    18  9.00 18.00  0.00  1.00  0.00
Rusch               7.0    4    1    1    3    4    0   113  3.86  5.14  0.00  1.00  1.29
Prior               9.3    7    3    3    5   13    1   173  4.82 12.54  0.96  1.29  2.89
Borowski            2.3    2    1    1    0    2    1    42  0.00  7.71  3.86  0.86  3.86
Zambrano            7.0    5    3    3    3    5    0   110  3.86  6.43  0.00  1.14  3.86
Novoa               1.7    2    1    1    3    3    0    36 16.20 16.20  0.00  3.00  5.40
Ohman               2.0    2    2    2    0    3    1    38  0.00 13.50  4.50  1.00  9.00
Mitre               5.3    9    6    6    1    1    3    87  1.69  1.69  5.06  1.88 10.13
Bartosh             0.7    1    1    1    2    0    1    11 27.00  0.00 13.50  4.50 13.50

vs. Colo           45.0   36   18   18   22   40    7   749  4.40  8.00  1.40  1.29  3.60

overall          1083.7 1036  555  524  453  951  148 17956  3.76  7.90  1.23  1.37  4.35

 

Go CUBS !!

[UMFan83]

I still don't see the Wild Card winner winning 90 games, unless Florida actually plays consistant and runs away with it. I see 87 wins or so taking it, meaning the Cubs need to go 27-13. Still don't see that happening unless Glendon and Maddux are very good down the stetch. But let's take it game by game and hope everything works out.

[swordsman]

I'll start posting these in the daily game threads:

 

NL Wild Card Standings (Start of Day, 8/20)
HOU   ---
FLA   0.5
PHI   0.5
WSH   1.0
NYM   2.5
CHC   5.0
MIL   5.5

Best case scenario today:

CHC defeats COL
MIL defeats HOU
LAD defeats FLA
NYM defeats WSH
PIT defeats PHI

 

This is greatly helpful. Would you mind adding one feature? If you could add what the standing would look like if the best case scenario pans out, that would be interesting.

 

If not, no biggie.

 

Thanks for the info just the same.

[Derwood]

I'll start posting these in the daily game threads:

 

 

This is greatly helpful. Would you mind adding one feature? If you could add what the standing would look like if the best case scenario pans out, that would be interesting.

 

If not, no biggie.

 

Thanks for the info just the same.

 

Funny you should ask, as I was thinking of doing just that. Let's see...

 

NL Wild Card Standings (Start of Day, 8/20)
HOU   ---
FLA   0.5
PHI   0.5
WSH   1.0
NYM   2.5
CHC   5.0
MIL   5.5

Best case scenario today:

CHC defeats COL
MIL defeats HOU
LAD defeats FLA
NYM defeats WSH
PIT defeats PHI

Would result in:

HOU   ---
FLA   0.5
PHI   0.5
WSH   1.0
NYM   1.5
CHC   4.0
MIL   4.5

[Uber]

any lineups?

[CubbieGirl22]

I hope Nomar is playing tonight!!!!

[otis89]

I hope Nomar is playing tonight!!!!

 

Welcome to the board!

 

If he doesn't play tonight, there's a problem.

[rickrolled]

No. Chicago Cubs Colorado

1 Matt Lawton, LF Luis A. Gonzalez, SS

2 Todd Walker, 2B Aaron Miles, 2B

3 Derrek Lee, 1B Todd Helton, 1B

4 Aramis Ramirez, 3B Matt Holliday, LF

5 Jeromy Burnitz, RF Garrett Atkins, 3B

6 Michael Barrett, C Dustan Mohr, RF

7 Neifi Perez, SS Todd Greene, C

8 Corey Patterson, CF Larry Bigbie, CF

9 Glendon Rusch, P Aaron Cook, P

[otis89]

I hope Nomar is playing tonight!!!!

 

Welcome to the board!

 

If he doesn't play tonight, there's a problem.

 

It looks like there's a problem. I hope there's a good explanation for this.

[CubbieGirl22]

Thanks for the welcome!

 

I guess Nomar is still hurt.

[LetsPlayTwo]

I want Nomar nowhere near this team next year.

[IowaCubbie]

Game could be delayed. Rain is moving into Denver as we speak. I am 10 blocks south of Coors Field in my hotel room.