Fred Hornkohl

Barrett struck out swinging

BOTTOM OF THE FIRST INNING Freel doubled to right center field Lopez grounded out to second, 4-3, Freel to third Griffey popped out to third base Aurilia singled to center field, Freel scored Dunn grounded into a FC, 6-5, Aurilia out at second 1 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 men left on base 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E CUBS 2 2 2 0 Cincinnati 1 1 2 0 Home runs: CUBS: Ramirez (1) pitcher IP H R ER BB K HR PIT Rusch 1.0 2 1 1 0 0 0 19

Aurilia singled to center field, Freel scored

Griffey popped out to third base

Freel doubled to right center field Lopez grounded out to second, 4-3, Freel to third

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Total CUBS 58 79 75 101 63 121 72 72 52 7 2 1 0 0 0 0 703 Opponents 91 88 61 71 115 65 74 85 53 0 7 4 0 0 0 0 714

TOP OF THE FIRST INNING Pierre grounded out to first, 3-1 Walker singled to left center field Lee popped out to shallow right field Ramirez homered to left field, Walker scored Jones grounded out to second, 4-3 2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 men left on base 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E CUBS 2 2 2 0 Cincinnati . 0 0 0 Home runs: CUBS: Ramirez (1)

Ramirez homered to left field, Walker scored

Lee popped out to shallow right field

Walker singled to left center field

Pierre grounded out to first, 3-1

CUBS were 3-2 last year when the temperature was between 50-55 degrees !! Go CUBS !!

Rusch vs. Cincinnati in 2005. (All in relief) Rusch IP H R ER BB K HR PC BB/9 K/9 HR/9 WHIP ERA vs. Cincy 7.7 6 6 6 3 5 1 120 3.52 5.87 1.17 1.17 7.04 Go CUBS !!

Don't forget that the Cubs are 1-0 in the 2006 regular season when Bruce Miles posts the lineups! Well done, DJAXX !! :wink: Much appreciation! I have some media notes from the Diamond Jaxx that you'd probably like to see. Sure, I'd love to. Send a PM or an email with a link.

Looks like it's on XM 185 according to the XM schedule. Correct. They're on 185 today, and the whole Cardinal series will be on 186. Thank you both...much appreciated. I wish they would have the team names displayed on the mifi channels as opposed to MLB Play-by-Play...it would make skipping through games much easier! Check you settings menu. I was able to get it to display the team names last year. Haven't tried it yet this year.

Looks like it's on XM 185 according to the XM schedule. Correct. They're on 185 today, and the whole Cardinal series will be on 186.

Don't forget that the Cubs are 1-0 in the 2006 regular season when Bruce Miles posts the lineups! Well done, DJAXX !! :wink:

Which clearly explains why the CUBS won't see them until 05 June !!!

Time for some worthless stats of the day....... CUBS are 11-14 on Wednesdays CUBS are 6-9 vs. Cincinnati (1-0 this year, of course) CUBS are 41-44 in the day time. CUBS are 41-39 on the road. CUBS are 26-9 when they score in the first inning,... 53-74 when they don't CUBS are 63-40 when they don't give up any runs in the 1st inning.... 16-43 when they do CUBS are 28-21 in games that end a series CUBS are 34-21 when they steal a base, 45-62 when they don't CUBS are 28-14 when they take 4 or more walks, 50-69 when they don't CUBS are 10-9 when Rusch starts Rusch is 9 of 19 in quality starts Rusch's ERA pitching to Barrett is 4.36.... pitching to Blanco 4.05 CUBS score 4.34 R/G overall.... 3.63 R/G when Rusch pitches CUBS hit 1.20 HR/G overall.... 1.11 HR/G when Rusch pitches CUBS' offensive support of Rusch last year...... 04/04 - 10/02 AB R H 2b 3b HR TB RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS CUBS w/Rusch 625 69 155 33 3 21 257 64 55 102 0.248 0.311 0.411 0.722 CUBS overall 5585 703 1506 322 23 194 2456 674 419 920 0.270 0.324 0.440 0.764 Rusch did not make any starts against Cincinnati last year. He did finish off the season strong last year, so let's hope he picks up right where he left off. Rusch's last five starts from last year (4-0)........ Rusch IP H R ER BB K HR PC BB/9 K/9 HR/9 WHIP ERA 09/06 vs. St. L 7.7 4 2 2 1 3 0 109 1.17 3.52 0.00 0.65 2.35 09/11 vs. S.F. 5.3 7 2 2 1 4 0 99 1.69 6.75 0.00 1.50 3.38 09/16 vs. St. L 6.7 7 3 3 2 4 1 106 2.70 5.40 1.35 1.35 4.05 09/23 vs. Houst 5.0 9 4 3 1 3 1 105 1.80 5.40 1.80 2.00 5.40 09/29 vs. Houst 7.0 7 2 2 1 5 1 92 1.29 6.43 1.29 1.14 2.57 Last 5 starts 31.7 34 13 12 6 19 3 511 1.71 5.40 0.85 1.26 3.41 Season totals 145.0 175 79 73 53 111 14 2562 3.29 6.89 0.87 1.57 4.53 This year's season series with Cincinnati (notice that 14 of the 19 games are day games; life is good) ...... Gm# Date Opponent Score Starter 1 Mon 04/03 @ Cincinnati 16- 7 Zambrano 2 Wed 04/05 @ Cincinnati - Rusch 6 Tue 04/11 Cincinnati - Rusch 7 Wed 04/12 Cincinnati - Maddux 8 Thu 04/13 Cincinnati - Zambrano 50 Mon 05/29 Cincinnati - 51 Tue 05/30 Cincinnati N - 52 Wed 05/31 Cincinnati N - 59 Thu 06/08 @ Cincinnati N - 60 Fri 06/09 @ Cincinnati N - 61 Sat 06/10 @ Cincinnati - 62 Sun 06/11 @ Cincinnati - 148 Fri 09/15 Cincinnati - 149 Sat 09/16 Cincinnati - 150 Sun 09/17 Cincinnati - 154 Fri 09/22 @ Cincinnati N - 155 Sat 09/23 @ Cincinnati - 156 Sun 09/24 @ Cincinnati - 157 Mon 09/25 @ Cincinnati - Go CUBS !!

Until Pierre leads off on Wednesday. Let's go overboard with our optimism there, eh?

BA OBP SLG OPS 0.429 0.490 0.667 1.157 How long will it last ??

Lasy year, the CUBS drew 7 walks in a game three different times, and on Sun 10 July, in a 9-2 victory of the Marlins just before the All Star break, they took 9 walks in one game.

I'll take any win, anyplace, any time !!

BOTTOM OF THE NINTH INNING Dempster (7th) in to pitch, Bynum (8th) in at lf for the CUBS Kearns grounded out to short, 6-3 Valentin struck out swinging Abad, pinch hitting for White, walked Aurilia singled to center field, Abad to second Lopez grounded into a FC, 6-4, Aurilia out at second 0 runs, 1 hits, 0 errors, 2 men left on base 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E CUBS 5 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 4 16 18 1 Cincinnati 1 0 3 0 1 1 1 0 0 7 11 2 CUBS WIN !! CUBS WIN !! CUBS WIN !! W: Ohman (1-0) S: none L: Harang (0-1) T: 3:38 A: 42,591 Home runs: CUBS: Murton, Cincinnati: Hatteberg, Dunn pitcher IP H R ER BB K HR PIT Zambrano 4.7 7 5 5 5 5 2 105 Ohman 0.3 0 0 0 0 0 0 04 Williamson 0.0 1 1 1 2 0 0 18 Eyre 2.0 1 1 0 2 3 0 37 Howry 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 0 12 Dempster 1.0 1 0 0 1 1 0 17

TOP OF THE NINTH INNING White in to pitch for Cincinnati Pagan singled to left field Pierre bunted to the catcher for a single, Pagan to second Hairston savrificed to third, safe at first on a throwing error, E5, Pagan to third, Pierre to second Lee flied out to center field, Pagan scored, Pierre to third, Hasirston to second Ramirez walked (intentionally) Perez grounded into a FC, 6-4, Ramirez out at second, Pierre scored, Hairston to third Barrett doubled off the wall in left field, Hairston & Perez scored Murton flied out to left field 4 runs, 3 hits, 1 errors, 1 men left on base 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E CUBS 5 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 4 16 18 1 Cincinnati 1 0 3 0 1 1 1 0 7 10 2 Home runs: CUBS: Murton, Cincinnati: Hatteberg, Dunn