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2-run HR Jose Reyes! 3rd HR of the year and I've heard all 3.
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Yeah. Right when I was saying that he was perfect through 3. Patterson is 1-2 with a an RBI single to left. He went to second on the throw home and scored on a single to left from McClain. Wellemeyer not off to the best start, but he's minimized the damage. 4 IP, 6 hits, 1 run, 3 walks, 2 strikeouts. MASH theme when the trainer goes out? Nice touch. Bernard's HR regained the lead for Peoria in the 6th. 4-3 game.
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Well, you're in luck. The website stopped putting up the pitching matchups, but apparently they put them back up sometime this afternoon. Brownlie is scheduled to start Sunday, August 7th. They have been wrong before, though. The starter for the 8th isn't listed, but Valdes' time in the rotation may be over.
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Greenberg is playing tonight. He started in right and has a walk in his only AB so far. Ryu with nothing but zeros through three. Great job by Mateo tonight. 6.2 IP, 4 hits, 0 runs, 0 walks, 2 strikeouts. O'Toole's 2-run HR is the only scoring of the game so far.
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I'm going to remove the clip from the server in the next few days, so if you've been waiting to download it, do it now.
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Mr. Shipman- What is it like watching the big league club (particularly Murton) on WGN in the clubhouse with your teammates? And what is it like sitting in a minor league bullpen every day with a bunch of loud kids around you? Expanding upon the "closer's mentality" question, do you feel any difference while pitching in a blowout vs. a 1-run save situation? How often do you have to "energize" yourself when you enter a game that is already lopsided? When you're on the road, does the music played as each opposing batter steps into the box ever annoy a pitcher or do most block that out? After pitching 4 games in the SAL, what was your first offseason as a professional baseball player like? Do you remember what you worked on that winter?
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Question and Answer with Jon Searles- ANSWERS POSTED
Jon replied to NCCubFan's topic in General Baseball Talk
Mr. Searles- As a former starter, what was it like for you to sit behind home plate and have to chart pitches? In your last journal entry, you said that you weren't going to let yourself struggle in the 2nd half like you did last August. What are you doing to prepare for that? Lastly (to counter the burrito questions), you also implied in an entry that you hope to graduate next year. How are you keeping up with your education? Do you do anything during the baseball season or is all of the work done in the offseason? How much more difficult is it to concentrate on your work in the offseason now that you're at AA compared to what you'd expect the difficulty to be for an Ivy League education. Thanks! -
That was pretty, Macias.
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No control...
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I'm sorry, but that was just funny.
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Aramis did a great job staying back on that curve after being fooled by it a bit. But a terrible job on the bases...
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Oooooh. That was close. But he was safe.
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Yeesh. That was well inside.
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There goes that momentum...
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Nicely done, Hank. Come on, Prior.
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Another impressive AB...
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I know you're a mod and well respected, but I don't think I've once seen you come into a thread and not criticize the ump. Not once? That might be a bit of a stretch. Why should Diaz not have been criticized there? He had a strike zone in that AB that we won't see at any other point in this game and it came with a RISP. Well then criticize them when the calls go our way too. There are plenty of games in which we've gotten away with pitches and i don't see a peep. It just seemed like every Game Thread, there is criticism of umps. Calling balls and strikes is subjective, it always has been, it's part of the game. Some guys squeeze others have enormous zones. I don't think the umpire is even CLOSE to as one-sided as people (not necessarily you) on these boards make it out to be. What? I point out generous strikes and blown calls that go our way quite often. There's an acceptable margin of error for umpires. In Prior's AB, the strike zone was significantly larger than in any other previous AB in the game. It wasn't just 1 pitch. Diaz deserved to be called out on that.
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I know you're a mod and well respected, but I don't think I've once seen you come into a thread and not criticize the ump. Not once? That might be a bit of a stretch. Why should Diaz not have been criticized there? He had a strike zone in that AB that we won't see at any other point in this game and it came with a RISP.
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We just can't catch a break thus far. Well, going back to the SF series, the Cubs have had plenty of opportunities as a result of terrible defense. It's about time they start converting more than 20% of their chances. But you can't possibly give a good hitting pitcher that strike zone with men on base. That zone was even a stretch for a poor hitting pitcher with nobody on base.
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Wow, thanks for the strike zone, Diaz.
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Fastball right down the middle. Prior has no location and little movement.
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Caught on the track, but balls die in the alleys in this park.
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Mike Billek (1-0, 4.50) is going tomorrow for the Chiefs.
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Well that was a poor AB by Walker.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 8-3-05
Jon replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Another nice outing by Pawelek. Thanks, Bo.