Fred Hornkohl

CUBS offense for the first 14 games..... (not including Lee's contribution) 04/03 - 04/19 AB R H 2B 3B HR TB RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS Barrett 46 8 13 2 0 3 24 15 2 4 0.283 0.306 0.522 0.828 Cedeno 46 4 17 5 1 0 24 5 2 5 0.370 0.396 0.522 0.918 Jones 29 4 6 1 0 1 10 4 3 8 0.207 0.273 0.345 0.618 Murton 50 8 14 2 1 2 24 9 5 8 0.280 0.345 0.480 0.825 Pierre 59 10 16 2 1 0 20 2 2 6 0.271 0.295 0.339 0.634 Ramirez 46 6 9 1 0 2 16 5 5 6 0.196 0.288 0.348 0.636 Walker 42 9 17 2 1 2 27 9 2 5 0.405 0.422 0.643 1.065 Blanco 9 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0.111 0.200 0.111 0.311 Bynum 12 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 0.083 0.083 0.083 0.167 Hairston 17 4 6 1 0 0 7 0 1 4 0.353 0.389 0.412 0.801 Mabry 13 2 6 0 0 1 9 3 0 4 0.462 0.462 0.692 1.154 Pagan 19 2 5 1 0 0 6 1 0 4 0.263 0.263 0.316 0.579 Perez 20 3 5 1 0 0 6 3 0 3 0.250 0.250 0.300 0.550 Restovich 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 Totals 408 63 116 18 4 11 175 56 23 64 0.284 0.322 0.429 0.751 CUBS' offense for the last 14 games........ 04/21 - 05/05 AB R H 2B 3B HR TB RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS Barrett 28 2 8 2 0 1 13 3 5 4 0.286 0.412 0.464 0.876 Cedeno 49 4 12 1 1 1 18 3 2 8 0.245 0.275 0.367 0.642 Jones 46 3 13 2 0 3 24 6 1 7 0.283 0.313 0.522 0.834 Murton 41 4 12 2 0 0 14 8 7 8 0.293 0.396 0.341 0.737 Pierre 53 8 13 3 1 0 18 0 5 5 0.245 0.322 0.340 0.662 Ramirez 45 8 9 3 0 2 18 5 8 4 0.200 0.321 0.400 0.721 Walker 46 1 11 2 0 0 13 4 8 5 0.239 0.352 0.283 0.634 Blanco 14 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 4 2 0.071 0.278 0.071 0.349 Bynum 14 0 4 0 1 0 6 1 1 5 0.286 0.333 0.429 0.762 Hairston 25 3 3 0 0 0 3 2 1 5 0.120 0.154 0.120 0.274 Mabry 17 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 5 0.059 0.111 0.059 0.170 Pagan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 Perez 26 0 3 1 0 0 4 0 2 2 0.115 0.179 0.154 0.332 Restovich 11 0 2 1 0 0 3 1 1 4 0.182 0.250 0.273 0.523 Totals 415 34 92 17 3 7 136 33 46 64 0.222 0.304 0.328 0.632 Everybody's OPS went down except Barrett, Jones, Pierre, & Ramirez. Barrett & Ramirez aren't hitting or driving in runs, but their keeping their production up by drawing walks. This is good. Jones & Pierre have improved from very crappy to crappy. The whole damned lineup is in a funk, but that's not news, is it ?? Also note that Freddie Bynum is outproducing all of Murton, Cedeno, Hairston and Perez during the last 2 weeks. Sure, it's a very small sample size, but why go ballistic because the guy gets a couple of starts ?? It's just that.... a couple of starts in place of 2 guys who weren't producing anyway. Lighten up, boys and girls. This, too, shall pass.

Holy Hyperbole, Batman !!! Do you realize that Joey Amalfitano, Lee Elia, Charlie Fox, John Vukovich, Frank Lucchesi, Joe Altobelli, Jim Essian, Rene Lachemann & Bruce Kimm have all managed the Chicago CUBS during the last quarter century ???? I say we exhume the body of Frank Chance and prop him up in the dugout and call him the manager. At least he's led the team to a World Series title before !!!! I don't think guys that only managed a couple games can be judged. I certainly hope you're not implying that those 1 game wonders were of any value ?? Of course they can be judged. They're all good ol' boy hangers on. They aren't worth they contracts they got, and they are where they belong today...... retired !!!

Tell us what it was like, Grandpa. we had a very hard time scoring runs, we had lost out best offensive threat to a freak accident a week or so before. Juan Pierre came in to score in the first inning. then jock jones got doubled off 2nd with the bases loaded killing a great rally, the pirates then scored on a infield single by joe randa. then the 8th inning came and matt murton hit the ball just out of the reach of jack wilson, jerry hairston came around to score. Ryan dempster came in to close down the pirates. it was great :-k LIAR. You are accusing the Cubs of ACTUALLY scoring a couple of runs, not to mention accusing them of winning a game? You better have some serious hard evidence to back up the claim. 8) By golly, it happened just like he said....... BOTTOM OF THE FIRST INNING Pierre singled to right field Pierre stole second base Cedeno sacrificed to the pitcher, safe at first on a throwing error, E1, Pierre scored Walker struck out (called) Cedeno thrown out trying to steal, 2-4 Ramirez flied out to center field 1 runs, 1 hits, 1 errors, 0 men left on base BOTTOM OF THE EIGHTH INNING Pierre grounded out to short, 1-6-3 Cedeno flied out to right field Walker walked, Hairston pinch running Torres in to pitch for Pittsburgh Ramirez grounded an IF single to short, Hairston to second Murton singled to center field, Hairston scored, Ramirez to third Jones grounded into a FC, 6 unassisted, Murton out at second 1 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 men left on base 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Pittsburgh 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 4 1 CUBS 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 x 2 7 1 Two runs.... in the SAME game !!!!

Holy Hyperbole, Batman !!! Do you realize that Joey Amalfitano, Lee Elia, Charlie Fox, John Vukovich, Frank Lucchesi, Joe Altobelli, Jim Essian, Rene Lachemann & Bruce Kimm have all managed the Chicago CUBS during the last quarter century ???? I say we exhume the body of Frank Chance and prop him up in the dugout and call him the manager. At least he's led the team to a World Series title before !!!!

The problem with that theory is..... we finish our schedule with San Diego for the year next Sunday.... 14 May !!

Hell.... I thought they were !!

Just like that, eh?

Greene should have been out at second. Hairston took the throw on the wrong side of the bag. Pads announcers have been talking about how both Neifi and Hairston didn't apply tags correctly. Santo's been railing about that for several days, on all the teams we've faced, as well as on us.

BOTTOM OF THE ELEVENTH INNING Greene walked Gonzalez flied out to shallow right field Greene stole second base Barfield singled to center field, Green scored 1 runs, 1 hits, 0 errors, 1 men left on base 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 R H E CUBS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 San Diego 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 1 W: Cassidy (2-0) S: none L: Williamson (2-2) T: 3:07 A: 37,123 Home runs: none pitcher IP H R ER BB K HR PIT Zambrano 7.0 4 0 0 3 10 0 107 Eyre 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 14 Howry 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 17 Williamson 1.3 1 1 1 2 1 0 30

Greene stole second base

Gonzalez flied out to shallow right field

Yep Tonight will make 7.

Greene walked

TOP OF THE ELEVENTH INNING Embree in to pitch for San Diego Bynum struck out swinging Walker blooped a doubled (ground rule) to left field Cassidy in to pitch for San Diego Ramirez grounded out to short, 6-3, Walker holding second Barrett struck out swinging 0 runs, 1 hits, 0 errors, 1 men left on base 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 R H E CUBS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 San Diego 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1

Ramirez grounded out to short, 6-3, Walker holding second

Cassidy in to pitch for San Diego

Walker blooped a doubled (ground rule) to left field

Bynum struck out swinging

Embree in to pitch for San Diego

Gesundheit !! :wink:

BOTTOM OF THE TENTH INNING Williamson in to pitch for the CUBS Roberts grounded out to second, 4-3 Cameron grounded out to short, 6-3 Giles walked Giles stole second base Bellhorn struck out swinging 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 men left on base 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 R H E CUBS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 San Diego 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 pitcher IP H R ER BB K HR PIT Zambrano 7.0 4 0 0 3 10 0 107 Eyre 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 14 Howry 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 17 Williamson 1.0 0 0 0 1 1 0 17

Giles stole second base

CUBS are 9-2 when they allow fewer than 4 walks.... 5-11 when they don't Go CUBS !!

Giles walked

Cameron grounded out to short, 6-3