Fred Hornkohl

Winn grounded into a FC, 3-2, Frandsen out at home, Matheny to third

Cain struck out (called)

Matheny doubled off the center field wall, Frandsen to third

Frandsen walked

TOP OF THE SECOND INNING Mabry struck out swinging Murton grounded an IF single to shortstop Jones homered to right field, Murton scored Blanco grounded out to third, 5-3 Zambrano struck out swinging 2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 men left on base 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E CUBS 1 2 3 3 1 San Francisco 1 1 1 0 Home runs: CUBS: Jones (6)

Blanco grounded out to third, 5-3

Jones homered to right field, Murton scored

Murton grounded an IF single to shortstop

Mabry struck out swinging

BOTTOM OF THE FIRST INNING Winn walked Vizquel grounded into a FC, 3-6, Winn out at second Sweeney lined out to center field Bonds walked Finley single to right field, Vizquel scored, Bonds to third Feliz lined out to third base 1 runs, 1 hits, 1 errors, 2 men left on base 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E CUBS 1 1 1 1 San Francisco 1 1 1 0 pitcher IP H R ER BB K HR PIT Zambrano 1.0 1 1 1 2 0 0 22

Finley single to right field, Vizquel scored, Bonds to third on a fielding error, E9

Bonds walked

Sweeney lined out to center field

Vizquel grounded into a FC, 3-6, Winn out at second

Winn walked

TOP OF THE FIRST INNING Cedeno singled to center field Cedeno stole second base Pierre sacrificed to the pitcher, 1-3, Cedeno to third Walker grounded out to short, 6-3, Cedeno scored Ramirez flied out to right field 1 runs, 1 hits, 0 errors, 0 men left on base 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E CUBS 1 1 1 0 San Francisco . 0 0 0

CUBS are 8-1 when they score in the first inning.... 6-17 when they don't Go CUBS !!

Walker grounded out to short, 6-3, Cedeno scored

Well.... he just wasted half of them on Cedeno, no? Reverse Psychology dude. :roll: :wink: Whatever gets the job done, man !! :wink:

Pierre sacrificed to the pitcher, 1-3, Cedeno to third

Cedeno stole second base

Well.... he just wasted half of them on Cedeno, no?

Cedeno singled to center field

Worthless stats of the day for Wednesday....... CUBS are 2-3 on Wednesdays CUBS are 0-1 vs. San Francisco CUBS are 0-0 when they've lost their last 8 game(s) in a row CUBS are 8-9 when they've lost their previous game CUBS are 7-9 at night CUBS are 6-12 on the road CUBS are 11-4 when they score first in the game.... 3-14 when they don't CUBS are 8-1 when they score in the first inning.... 6-17 when they don't CUBS are 11-8 when they don't allow any runs is the first inning.... 3-10 when they do CUBS are 11-2 when they score at least 4 runs.... 3-16 when they don't CUBS are 10-4 when they allow fewer than 4 runs.... 4-14 when they don't CUBS are on a pace to win 71 games this year..... compared to 79 last year CUBS are on a pace to score 608 runs this year..... compared to 703 last year CUBS are on a pace to hit 127 home runs this year..... compared to 194 last year CUBS are on a pace to draw 446 walks this year..... compared to 419 last year CUBS are on a pace to steal 137 bases this year..... compared to 64 last year CUBS are on a pace to ground into 182 double plays this year..... compared to 129 last year CUBS are on a pace to commit 86 errors this year..... compared to 100 last year CUBS are drving in 17.6% of their runners on base compared to 18.4% last year CUBS are scoring 0.340 runs per baserunner compared to 0.365 last year CUBS are 3-4 when Zambrano starts Zambrano is 4 of 7 in quality starts Zambrano's ERA pitching to Barrett is 5.02.... pitching to Blanco it's 3.00 CUBS score 3.75 R/G overall.... 4.14 R/G when Zambrano pitches CUBS hit 0.78 HR/G overall.... 0.71 HR/G when Zambrano pitches CUBS' offensive support of Zambrano..... 04/03 - 05/09 AB R H 2b 3b HR TB RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS CUBS w/Zambrano 235 29 50 11 1 5 78 27 26 52 0.213 0.292 0.332 0.624 CUBS overall 1056 120 260 41 9 25 394 110 88 179 0.246 0.306 0.373 0.679 Zambrano's last 5 starts (0-2)..... Zambrano IP H R ER BB K HR PC BB/9 K/9 HR/9 WHIP ERA 04/13 vs. Cincy 6.0 4 5 4 3 8 2 103 4.50 12.00 3.00 1.17 6.00 04/18 vs. L.A. 6.0 4 1 1 5 3 0 112 7.50 4.50 0.00 1.50 1.50 04/24 vs. Flor 7.0 6 3 3 3 12 1 114 3.86 15.43 1.29 1.29 3.86 04/30 vs. Milw 4.0 8 7 7 5 5 1 103 11.25 11.25 2.25 3.25 15.75 05/05 vs. S.D. 7.0 4 0 0 3 10 0 107 3.86 12.86 0.00 1.00 0.00 5 game totals 30.0 26 16 15 19 38 4 539 5.70 11.40 1.20 1.50 4.50 season totals 40.7 37 23 20 28 48 6 755 6.20 10.62 1.33 1.60 4.43 Zambrano's starts against San Francisco last year (1-0)...... Zambrano IP H R ER BB K HR PC BB/9 K/9 HR/9 WHIP ERA 07/27 vs. S.F. 7.3 11 3 3 4 4 0 120 4.91 4.91 0.00 2.05 3.68 09/08 vs. S.F. 7.0 6 3 3 3 6 1 125 3.86 7.71 1.29 1.29 3.86 totals vs. S.F. 14.3 17 6 6 7 10 1 245 4.40 6.28 0.63 1.67 3.77 season totals 223.3 170 88 81 86 202 21 3564 3.47 8.14 0.85 1.15 3.26 CUBS' season series vs. San Francisco ....... Gm# Date Opponent Score Starter 32 Tue 05/09 @ San Francisco N 1- 6 Hill 33 Wed 05/10 @ San Francisco N - Zambrano 34 Thu 05/11 @ San Francisco - Marshall 134 Fri 09/01 San Francisco - 135 Sat 09/02 San Francisco - 136 Sun 09/03 San Francisco - CUBS' offense during the last 14 games..... 04/25 - 05/09 AB R H 2B 3B HR TB RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS Barrett 29 2 9 1 1 1 15 1 6 3 0.310 0.444 0.517 0.962 Ramirez 52 8 13 4 0 3 26 4 5 5 0.250 0.310 0.500 0.810 Jones 47 2 13 2 0 2 21 4 2 9 0.277 0.306 0.447 0.753 Murton 42 4 13 2 0 0 15 6 5 7 0.310 0.396 0.357 0.753 Restovich 9 0 2 1 0 0 3 1 1 3 0.222 0.300 0.333 0.633 Cedeno 54 2 15 0 1 1 20 3 1 9 0.278 0.291 0.370 0.661 Walker 47 1 11 2 0 0 13 1 5 8 0.234 0.308 0.277 0.584 Bynum 15 0 3 0 1 0 5 1 1 6 0.200 0.250 0.333 0.583 Pierre 55 4 9 1 1 0 12 0 5 6 0.164 0.246 0.218 0.464 Perez 23 1 4 0 0 0 4 0 2 2 0.174 0.240 0.174 0.414 Hairston 29 2 5 0 0 0 5 3 2 6 0.172 0.226 0.172 0.398 Blanco 12 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 3 2 0.083 0.267 0.083 0.350 Mabry 14 1 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 5 0.143 0.200 0.143 0.343 14 game totals 451 27 100 13 4 7 142 25 40 77 0.222 0.289 0.315 0.604 season totals 1056 120 260 41 9 25 394 110 88 178 0.246 0.306 0.373 0.679 CUBS' pitchers during the last 14 games...... 04/25 - 05/09 IP H R ER BB K HR PC BB/9 K/9 HR/9 WHIP ERA Marshall 20.3 9 2 2 6 18 0 276 2.66 7.97 0.00 0.74 0.89 Dempster 4.0 2 1 1 0 2 0 45 0.00 4.50 0.00 0.50 2.25 Howry 7.3 7 2 2 0 3 1 109 0.00 3.68 1.23 0.95 2.45 Ohman 9.0 9 4 4 3 8 0 144 3.00 8.00 0.00 1.33 4.00 Eyre 7.7 7 4 4 5 11 2 150 5.87 12.91 2.35 1.57 4.70 Novoa 7.0 8 6 4 5 9 0 173 6.43 11.57 0.00 1.86 5.14 Zambrano 11.0 12 7 7 8 15 1 210 6.55 12.27 0.82 1.82 5.73 Williamson 5.7 4 4 4 5 7 0 108 7.94 11.12 0.00 1.59 6.35 Guzman 15.0 17 14 12 11 16 2 291 6.60 9.60 1.20 1.87 7.20 Rusch 8.3 8 7 7 6 4 4 177 6.48 4.32 4.32 1.68 7.56 Maddux 14.7 27 14 14 3 15 2 244 1.84 9.20 1.23 2.05 8.59 Hill 10.0 14 10 10 5 5 3 167 4.50 4.50 2.70 1.90 9.00 Aardsma 2.3 4 3 3 3 2 2 60 11.57 7.71 7.71 3.00 11.57 14 game totals 122.3 128 78 74 60 115 17 2154 4.41 8.46 1.25 1.54 5.44 season totals 280.0 253 155 144 136 241 41 4792 4.37 7.75 1.32 1.39 4.63 This pretty well sums up the last 8 games....... 05/02 - 05/09 AB R H 2b 3b HR TB RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS CUBS 269 9 59 5 3 4 82 9 21 44 0.219 0.277 0.305 0.582 05/02 - 05/09 IP H R ER BB K HR BB/9 K/9 HR/9 WHIP ERA CUBS 68.3 74 42 38 30 62 8 3.95 8.17 1.05 1.52 5.00 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Total CUBS 0 2 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 Opponents 7 3 7 8 4 6 3 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 42 Go CUBS !!

Unless your definition of success is winning the World Series, which makes this question rhetorical to begin with, there are a few managers that have done a creditable job and have a winning record to show for it. Frank Chance, Fred Mitchell, Bill Killefer, Joe McCarthy, Charlie Grimm, and Leo Durocher to come mind.