9/5 Cubs (Prior) @ Cardinals (Suppan) 1:15pm WGN

[mhuber92211]

Another Labor Day/B-Day Weekend sweep for me and the Cubs. Its nice to have this winning feelieng again to validate my belief in the team! Start Believing Again everyone!

[otis89]

Sorry, but I don't think even a sweep would get me to start believing again.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Worthless stats of the day for Monday......

 

CUBS are 7-10 on Mondays

CUBS are 6-3 vs. St. Louis

CUBS are 34-39 in the day time.

CUBS are 33-34 on the road.

CUBS are 21-22 in games that open a series

CUBS are 36-29 when they've won the previous game.... 28-41 after a loss

CUBS are 3-6 when they've won their previous 3 games

CUBS are 41-17 when they score first,.... 25-53 when they don't

CUBS are 20-6 when they score in the first inning,... 46-64 when they don't

CUBS are 54-35 when they don't give up any runs in the 1st inning.... 12-35 when they do

 

CUBS are 15-7 when Prior starts

Prior is 17 of 22 in quality starts

Prior's ERA pitching to Barrett is 3.77.... pitching to Blanco 3.70

CUBS score 4.51 R/G overall.... 4.77 R/G when Prior pitches

CUBS hit 1.24 HR/G overall.... 1.41 HR/G when Prior pitches

 

CUBS' offensive support of Prior.....

 

04/04 - 09/04      AB    R    H   2b   3b   HR   TB  RBI   BB   SO     BA    OBP    SLG    OPS
CUBS w/Prior      737  105  204   49    3   31  352  101   66  105  0.277  0.340  0.478  0.818
CUBS overall     4706  614 1290  285   20  169 2122  588  358  763  0.274  0.329  0.451  0.780

 

Prior's last five starts.....

 

Prior             IP    H    R   ER   BB    K   HR    PC  BB/9   K/9  HR/9  WHIP   ERA
08/30 vs. L.A.   6.0    8    3    3    0    7    2    94  0.00 10.50  3.00  1.33  4.50
08/24 vs. Atla   6.7    4    3    3    4    7    0   132  5.40  9.45  0.00  1.20  4.05
08/19 vs. Colo   6.0    5    2    2    2   10    1   118  3.00 15.00  1.50  1.17  3.00
08/14 vs. St. L  6.0    7    3    3    4    7    1   123  6.00 10.50  1.50  1.83  4.50
08/09 vs. Cincy  7.0    8    3    3    0   11    2   117  0.00 14.14  2.57  1.14  3.86

5 game totals   31.7   32   14   14   10   42    6   584  2.84 11.94  1.71  1.33  3.98

 

Prior's previous starts vs. St. Louis.....

 

Prior             IP    H    R   ER   BB    K   HR    PC  BB/9   K/9  HR/9  WHIP   ERA
08/14 vs. St. L  6.0    7    3    3    4    7    1   123  6.00 10.50  1.50  1.83  4.50
07/24 vs. St. L  6.0    5    3    3    3    2    3   108  4.50  3.00  4.50  1.33  4.50

total vs. St. L 12.0   12    6    6    7    9    4   231  5.25  6.75  3.00  1.58  4.50

 

Prior's H/R & D/N splits.....

 

Prior             IP    H    R   ER   BB    K   HR    PC  BB/9   K/9  HR/9  WHIP   ERA
Home            85.3   66   28   26   25  100   11  1376  2.64 10.55  1.16  1.07  2.74
Road            52.7   49   32   31   20   54   12   913  3.42  9.23  2.05  1.31  5.30

Day             93.3   71   42   40   31  108   14  1551  2.99 10.41  1.35  1.09  3.86
Nite            44.7   44   18   17   14   46    9   738  2.82  9.27  1.81  1.30  3.43

season totals  138.0  115   60   57   45  154   23  2289  2.93 10.04  1.50  1.16  3.72

 

CUBS' season series vs. St. Louis.....

 

Gm#    Date       Opponent         Score  Starter
15  Wed 04/20  @ St. Louis     N   3- 1  Zambrano      
16  Thu 04/21  @ St. Louis         0- 4  Dempster      
96  Fri 07/22  @ St. Louis     N   1- 2  Zambrano      
97  Sat 07/23  @ St. Louis         6- 5  Williams      
98  Sun 07/24  @ St. Louis     N   8- 4  Prior        
115  Thu 08/11    St. Louis        11- 4  Maddux        
116  Fri 08/12    St. Louis         4- 1  Zambrano      
117  Sat 08/13    St. Louis         2- 5  Williams      
118  Sun 08/14    St. Louis     N   5- 4  Prior        
137  Mon 09/05  @ St. Louis          -    Prior        
138  Tue 09/06  @ St. Louis     N    -    Rusch        
139  Wed 09/07  @ St. Louis     N    -    Maddux        
147  Thu 09/15    St. Louis     N    -    Prior        
148  Fri 09/16    St. Louis          -    Rusch        
149  Sat 09/17    St. Louis          -    Maddux        
150  Sun 09/18    St. Louis          -    Zambrano      

 

CUBS' hitters vs. St. Louis.....

 

CUBS               AB    R    H   2B   3B   HR   TB  RBI   BB   SO     BA    OBP    SLG    OPS
Blanco             11    1    6    0    0    1    9    2    1    0  0.545  0.583  0.818  1.402
Lee                32    9   12    5    0    3   26    8    8    4  0.375  0.500  0.813  1.313
Ramirez            35    7   13    2    0    3   24    9    4    2  0.371  0.450  0.686  1.136
Barrett            24    4    8    3    0    1   14    2    4    4  0.333  0.429  0.583  1.012
Lawton             14    2    5    0    0    1    8    1    0    0  0.357  0.357  0.571  0.929
Garciaparra        15    1    5    1    0    0    6    0    0    1  0.333  0.375  0.400  0.775
Macias              8    1    3    0    0    0    3    3    0    1  0.375  0.375  0.375  0.750
Patterson          23    4    6    1    0    1   10    3    1    2  0.261  0.292  0.435  0.726
Hollandsworth      23    1    6    3    0    0    9    0    2    2  0.261  0.320  0.391  0.711
Perez              31    3    8    1    0    1   12    6    1    2  0.258  0.281  0.387  0.668
Hairston           21    1    6    0    1    0    8    0    0    4  0.286  0.286  0.381  0.667
Walker             25    3    7    1    0    0    8    0    1    5  0.280  0.308  0.320  0.628
Burnitz            32    2    7    1    0    1   11    2    2    4  0.219  0.265  0.344  0.608
Murton              6    1    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    3  0.000  0.000  0.000  0.000
Gerut               3    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    1  0.000  0.000  0.000  0.000
Fontenot            1    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0  0.000  0.000  0.000  0.000

vs. St. L.        326   40   96   19    2   12  155   38   24   43  0.294  0.347  0.475  0.822

overall          4706  614 1289  280   21  167 2112  589  356  753  0.274  0.328  0.449  0.777

 

CUBS' pitchers vs. St. Louis.....

 

CUBS                 IP    H    R   ER   BB    K   HR    PC  BB/9   K/9  HR/9  WHIP   ERA
Wood                3.0    1    0    0    2    6    0    51  6.00 18.00  0.00  1.00  0.00
Novoa               2.7    1    0    0    1    0    0    34  3.38  0.00  0.00  0.75  0.00
Rusch               2.0    2    0    0    0    1    0    26  0.00  4.50  0.00  1.00  0.00
Ohman               1.7    0    0    0    1    1    0    23  5.40  5.40  0.00  0.60  0.00
Hawkins             0.3    0    0    0    0    0    0     2  0.00  0.00  0.00  0.00  0.00
Koronka             0.3    0    0    0    0    0    0     5  0.00  0.00  0.00  0.00  0.00
Zambrano           23.7   14    2    2    2   20    2   332  0.76  7.61  0.76  0.68  0.76
Wuertz              4.3    1    1    1    2    4    0    70  4.15  8.31  0.00  0.69  2.08
Dempster           10.0   11    4    3    5    6    0   169  4.50  5.40  0.00  1.60  2.70
Maddux              9.0   12    4    4    0    5    1   114  0.00  5.00  1.00  1.33  4.00
Prior              12.0   12    6    6    7    9    4   231  5.25  6.75  3.00  1.58  4.50
Williams           12.0   11    7    6    7   10    1   218  5.25  7.50  0.75  1.50  4.50
Fox                 0.7    2    2    2    0    1    1    15  0.00 13.50 13.50  3.00 27.00
Mitre               0.3    2    1    1    0    0    0    10  0.00  0.00  0.00  6.00 27.00
Williamson          0.3    2    2    2    1    1    0    16 27.00 27.00  0.00  9.00 54.00
Remlinger           0.0    1    1    1    0    0    1     4  0.00  0.00  0.00  0.00  0.00

vs. St. L.         82.3   72   30   28   28   64   10  1320  3.06  7.00  1.09  1.21  3.06

overall          1207.7 1142  615  581  489 1064  161 19903  3.64  7.93  1.20  1.35  4.33

 

Go CUBS !!

[barrettismyidol]

i'm pretty sure that you're the only one who still believes, mhuber. but the sweep was nice.

[rocket]

oh boy we swept the only team in the division clearly worse than us HELLO PLAYOFFS

[Fred Hornkohl]

i'm pretty sure that you're the only one who still believes, mhuber. but the sweep was nice.

 

Looks like it's gonna get a whole lot tighter before anything get decided.....

 

team               W   L    Pct    GB
Philadelphia      73  64  0.533   --- 
Florida           72  64  0.529   0.5
Houston           72  64  0.529   0.5
Washington        71  66  0.518   2.0
NY Mets           70  66  0.515   2.5
Milwaukee         67  70  0.489   6.0
CUBS              66  70  0.485   6.5
Cincinnati        63  73  0.463   9.5
San Francisco     62  73  0.459  10.0
Los Angeles       61  75  0.449  11.5


CUBS (Prior) @ St. Louis (Suppan)
NY Mets (Trachsel) @ Atlanta (Thomson)
Florida (Valdez) @ Washington (Hernandez)
Houston (Pettitte) @ Philadelphia (Myers)
Milwaukee (Ohka) @ Cincinnati (Claussen)
San Francisco (Hennessey) @ Los Angeles (Penny)

[barrettismyidol]

oh boy we swept the only team in the division clearly worse than us HELLO PLAYOFFS

 

watch out now!

 

fred, i don't want to get my hopes up.

[Fred Hornkohl]

oh boy we swept the only team in the division clearly worse than us HELLO PLAYOFFS

 

watch out now!

 

fred, i don't want to get my hopes up.

 

Baseball teams gotta play 'em one at a time. Fans can cheer for 'em the same way. I got my hopes up for tomorrow !! :wink:

[Derwood]

Getting back to .500 would be nice, though it's cold comfort to know what might have been....

[MembersOnlyJacket]

Isn't tomorrow Matty Mo's turn in the rotation ? Or, is LaRussa skipping him for this critical pennant drive series because he'll give up 5 runs against the Cubs ?

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

I might watch this game...or I may take my wife to the movies.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Isn't tomorrow Matty Mo's turn in the rotation ? Or, is LaRussa skipping him for this critical pennant drive series because he'll give up 5 runs against the Cubs ?

 

Matty Mo got pushed back to Tuesday.

[Omar]

Woo!! 3 gamer!

[Flames24Rulz]

sweep the Cards and San Francisco...i just want to get this thing over .500 really. I really want to sweep the Cards though, badly..

[Omar]

sweep the Cards and San Francisco...i just want to get this thing over .500 really. I really want to sweep the Cards though, badly..

 

Were really close to sweeping them last time out.. and we own the Cards this season.

[mhuber92211]

I might watch this game...or I may take my wife to the movies.

 

If you go, let us know what movie. But I think you can wait until next week when the sappy romance movie of the year comes out. Reece Witherspoon in "Just like Heaven".

[E.J.]

We're only 6.5 games out in the Wild Card. We've got ourselves positioned perfectly for one of Dusty's big September runs!!!!

[gflore34]

I know its probably asking for a bit much but, I'd sure like to see a dominant Prior outing. It would be a refreshing change from his most recent starts.

[otis89]

I know its probably asking for a bit much but, I'd sure like to see a dominant Prior outing. It would be a refreshing change from his most recent starts.

 

Agreed. I'm not sure I like this "effective" Prior. I want the Prior from '03 back.

[JGalt73]

I know its probably asking for a bit much but, I'd sure like to see a dominant Prior outing. It would be a refreshing change from his most recent starts.

 

When is the last time Prior's appeared to have all his pitches working? It seems like every post game recently is "I did what I could because I didn't have my ______-ball today."

[Fred Hornkohl]

I know its probably asking for a bit much but, I'd sure like to see a dominant Prior outing. It would be a refreshing change from his most recent starts.

 

When is the last time Prior's appeared to have all his pitches working? It seems like every post game recently is "I did what I could because I didn't have my ______-ball today."

 

I'm guessing it would be this one......

 

Prior             IP    H    R   ER   BB    K   HR    PC  BB/9   K/9  HR/9  WHIP   ERA
07/14 vs. Pitts  8.0    2    1    0    3   10    0   115  3.38 11.25  0.00  0.63  0.00

 

The CUBS won that game 5-1.

[frostwyrm]

Hairston LF

Cedeno SS

Lee 1B

Burnitz RF

Garciaparra 3B

Walker 2B

Blanco C

Patterson CF

Prior P

[MembersOnlyJacket]

Hairston LF

Cedeno SS

Lee 1B

Burnitz RF

Garciaparra 3B

Walker 2B

Blanco C

Patterson CF

Prior P

 

That's a decent lineup, with the exception of the fact that Prior should hit 8th. Also, it appears Murton is still not ready to face those RH pitchers.

[CardsFanInChiTown]

Hairston LF

Cedeno SS

Lee 1B

Burnitz RF

Garciaparra 3B

Walker 2B

Blanco C

Patterson CF

Prior P

 

 

D. Eckstein ss

A. Nunez 3b

A. Pujols 1b

J. Edmonds cf

L. Walker rf

M. Grudzielanek 2b

J. Rodriguez lf

E. Diaz c

J. Suppan p

[TrueBlueCubFan]

Hairston LF

Cedeno SS

Lee 1B

Burnitz RF

Garciaparra 3B

Walker 2B

Blanco C

Patterson CF

Prior P

 

That's a decent lineup, with the exception of the fact that Prior should hit 8th. Also, it appears Murton is still not ready to face those RH pitchers.

It's never a good line-up when Patterson is in it! Hairston to CF & Murton to LF, please!