Fred Hornkohl

Today is the 33rd anniversary of Milt Pappas' no hitter (1972). What a great memory !!!

That was my typo. Hairston is in LF.... but I think you all knew that.

Tonight's lineup as per Dusty Baker on the radio pregame show...... Hairston, cf Perez, ss Walker, 2b Garciaparra, 3b Burnitz, rf Barrett, c McClain, 1b Patterson, cf Maddux, p

Team record by starting left fielder W L pct Grieve 1 0 1.000 Dubois 20 15 0.571 Murton 8 8 0.500 Hollandsworth 28 32 0.467 Lawton 6 11 0.353 Hairston 0 3 0.000 Gerut 0 1 0.000 Totals 63 70 0.474 Too bad the Cubs didn't start Grieve more -- that 1.000 win % would have been pretty good. :wink: Be real careful there what you ask for, my friend !! :wink: Team record by leadoff hitter W L pct Macias 2 0 1.000 Patterson 14 13 0.519 Hairston 30 32 0.484 Perez 10 11 0.476 Lawton 7 11 0.389 Murton 0 2 0.000 Gerut 0 1 0.000 Totals 63 70 0.474

Team record by starting left fielder W L pct Grieve 1 0 1.000 Dubois 20 15 0.571 Murton 8 8 0.500 Hollandsworth 28 32 0.467 Lawton 6 11 0.353 Hairston 0 3 0.000 Gerut 0 1 0.000 Totals 63 70 0.474

Maybe the deal is there ain't no deal ?? What were expecting to hear ?

You are familiar with the old adage about acorns and blind squirrels, no? :wink: You just can't handle the fact that I obviously have better foresight and knowledge of this team than you do. :P OK, OK, you win. I acknowledge that you are a veritable legend in your own mind. :wink: That's fine. I understand that you are just bitter over your whipping. I know you don't mean what you are saying. :D Hey..... I'm not any farther out of 1st place than the CUBS are !!! and besides, you're gonna get your clock cleaned four and out when you go to the playoffs !! :wink:

You are familiar with the old adage about acorns and blind squirrels, no? :wink: You just can't handle the fact that I obviously have better foresight and knowledge of this team than you do. :P OK, OK, you win. I acknowledge that you are a veritable legend in your own mind. :wink:

Hmmm... must be a really slow night if people are actually reading my worthless stats.

I would really encourage you to look at Prior's game log more closely. To date, he's made 22 starts, 17 of them qualify as "quality starts". In those 17 games, his ERA is 2.57 and the CUBS are 14-3. Is this what you call half a pitcher? In my book, he's a whole lot more than "one half piece of known quantity".

You are familiar with the old adage about acorns and blind squirrels, no? :wink:

Worthless stats of the day for Friday..... CUBS are 9-11 on Fridays CUBS are 8-3 vs. Pittsburgh CUBS are 31-31 at night. CUBS are 30-34 on the road. CUBS are 20-22 in games that open a series CUBS are 6-4 in games openning a road trip CUBS are 20-13 when Derrek Lee hits at least 1 HR.... 42-57 when he doesn't CUBS are 28-19 when their pitchers' get at least 1 hit.... 35-51 when they don't CUBS are 34-28 when they've won the previous game.... 28-42 after a loss CUBS are 51-24 when they get a quality start,... 12-46 when they don't CUBS are 21-45 when the opponent gets a quality start.... 42-26 when they don't CUBS are 52-25 when they score 4 runs or more, 11-45 when they don't CUBS are 47-9 when they give up 3 runs or less, 16-61 when they don't CUBS are 12-16 when Maddux starts Maddux is 16 of 28 in quality starts Maddux's ERA pitching to Barrett is 4.87.... pitching to Blanco it's 3.40 CUBS score 4.48 R/G overall.... 4.89 R/G when Maddux pitches CUBS hit 1.23 HR/G overall.... 1.32 HR/G when Maddux pitches CUBS' offensive support of Maddux..... 04/04 - 08/31 AB R H 2b 3b HR TB RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS CUBS w/Maddux 1009 137 291 66 3 37 474 128 82 159 0.288 0.348 0.470 0.817 CUBS overall 4598 596 1258 276 20 164 2066 571 350 751 0.274 0.328 0.449 0.777 Maddux's last five starts..... Maddux IP H R ER BB K HR PC BB/9 K/9 HR/9 WHIP ERA 08/27 vs. Flor 9.0 5 2 2 1 2 0 102 1.00 2.00 0.00 0.67 2.00 08/21 vs. Colo 6.0 8 6 6 1 3 3 87 1.50 4.50 4.50 1.50 9.00 08/16 vs. Houst 7.0 3 1 1 2 5 0 70 2.57 6.43 0.00 0.71 1.29 08/11 vs. St. L 9.0 12 4 4 0 5 1 114 0.00 5.00 1.00 1.33 4.00 08/06 vs. Mets 7.0 4 2 2 2 5 0 99 2.57 6.43 0.00 0.86 2.57 5 game totals 38.0 32 15 15 6 20 4 472 1.42 4.74 0.95 1.00 3.55 Maddux's previous starts vs. Pittsburgh..... Maddux IP H R ER BB K HR PC BB/9 K/9 HR/9 WHIP ERA 07/16 vs. Pitts 8.0 5 3 2 1 6 1 101 1.13 6.75 1.13 0.75 2.25 04/23 vs. Pitts 8.0 4 2 2 1 3 0 96 1.13 3.38 0.00 0.63 2.25 04/17 vs. Pitts 6.0 5 2 2 0 3 0 77 0.00 4.50 0.00 0.83 3.00 Maddux's splits..... Maddux IP H R ER BB K HR PC BB/9 K/9 HR/9 WHIP ERA Home 87.7 96 48 45 14 46 10 1177 1.44 4.72 1.03 1.25 4.62 Road 91.0 94 44 43 16 60 14 1285 1.58 5.93 1.38 1.21 4.25 Day 120.3 132 66 62 16 63 18 1665 1.20 4.71 1.35 1.23 4.64 Nite 58.3 58 26 26 14 43 6 797 2.16 6.63 0.93 1.23 4.01 season totals 178.7 190 92 88 30 106 24 2462 1.51 5.34 1.21 1.23 4.43 CUBS' season series vs. Pittsburgh..... Gm# Date Opponent Score Starter 10 Fri 04/15 @ Pittsburgh N 5- 8 Zambrano 11 Sat 04/16 @ Pittsburgh N 4- 3 Dempster 12 Sun 04/17 @ Pittsburgh 4- 2 Maddux 17 Sat 04/23 Pittsburgh 3- 4 Maddux 18 Sun 04/24 Pittsburgh 5- 2 Wood 37 Tue 05/17 @ Pittsburgh N 4- 3 Prior 38 Wed 05/18 @ Pittsburgh 3- 2 Rusch 88 Thu 07/14 Pittsburgh 5- 1 Prior 89 Fri 07/15 Pittsburgh 11- 1 Wood 90 Sat 07/16 Pittsburgh 0- 3 Maddux 91 Sun 07/17 Pittsburgh 8- 2 Zambrano 134 Fri 09/02 @ Pittsburgh N - Maddux 135 Sat 09/03 @ Pittsburgh - Zambrano 136 Sun 09/04 @ Pittsburgh - Williams 157 Tue 09/27 Pittsburgh N - Prior 158 Wed 09/28 Pittsburgh - Rusch CUBS' hitters vs. Pittsburgh..... CUBS AB R H 2B 3B HR TB RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS Grieve 3 0 3 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 1.000 1.000 1.000 2.000 Perez 32 7 17 6 0 2 29 8 2 1 0.531 0.543 0.906 1.449 Hollandsworth 15 2 6 0 1 0 8 1 4 3 0.400 0.550 0.533 1.083 Fontenot 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000 1.000 0.000 1.000 Lee 44 7 15 4 0 3 28 8 2 7 0.341 0.362 0.636 0.998 Ramirez 37 8 10 3 0 3 22 8 5 6 0.270 0.357 0.595 0.952 Walker 17 2 5 1 0 1 9 2 1 3 0.294 0.333 0.529 0.863 Cedeno 7 0 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0.429 0.429 0.429 0.857 Burnitz 40 6 10 2 1 2 20 5 6 7 0.250 0.348 0.500 0.848 Dubois 16 1 3 1 0 1 7 3 1 6 0.188 0.235 0.438 0.673 Garciaparra 9 2 2 1 0 0 3 1 2 0 0.222 0.333 0.333 0.667 Hairston 38 5 9 2 0 1 14 5 2 2 0.237 0.293 0.368 0.661 Blanco 10 1 2 2 0 0 4 2 0 2 0.200 0.200 0.400 0.600 Barrett 27 3 6 1 0 0 7 2 4 2 0.222 0.313 0.259 0.572 Macias 8 0 2 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0.250 0.300 0.250 0.550 Patterson 23 5 4 0 0 1 7 1 1 8 0.174 0.208 0.304 0.513 Murton 8 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0.125 0.125 0.125 0.250 vs. Pitts 361 52 105 25 2 14 176 52 34 54 0.291 0.351 0.488 0.838 overall 4598 596 1257 271 21 162 2056 572 348 741 0.273 0.328 0.447 0.775 CUBS' hitters vs. Pittsburgh..... CUBS IP H R ER BB K HR PC BB/9 K/9 HR/9 WHIP ERA Wuertz 4.0 3 0 0 2 2 0 59 4.50 4.50 0.00 1.25 0.00 Novoa 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Mitre 0.7 2 0 0 0 0 0 9 0.00 0.00 0.00 3.00 0.00 Bartosh 0.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Rusch 11.0 10 2 2 8 10 0 187 6.55 8.18 0.00 1.64 1.64 Prior 15.0 9 4 3 4 16 2 216 2.40 9.60 1.20 0.87 1.80 Maddux 22.0 14 7 6 2 12 1 274 0.82 4.91 0.41 0.73 2.45 Wood 11.0 5 3 3 3 13 1 151 2.45 10.64 0.82 0.73 2.45 Dempster 9.0 7 3 3 5 6 1 144 5.00 6.00 1.00 1.33 3.00 Zambrano 14.0 11 6 5 6 9 3 203 3.86 5.79 1.93 1.21 3.21 Fox 2.7 3 1 1 2 5 0 49 6.75 16.88 0.00 1.88 3.38 Hawkins 4.0 3 2 2 3 2 1 60 6.75 4.50 2.25 1.50 4.50 Remlinger 2.7 3 2 2 0 0 0 48 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.13 6.75 Ohman 1.0 1 1 1 0 0 0 8 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 9.00 vs. Pitts 98.0 72 31 28 35 75 9 1416 3.21 6.89 0.83 1.09 2.57 overall 1180.7 1120 607 573 483 1032 161 19510 3.68 7.87 1.23 1.36 4.37 Go CUBS !!

Last year Dubois had 1 good game (2 XBHs) at the end of the year and we heard that refrain for 6 months, no?

Using the following values which were derived from a simple linear extrapolation for all non-rate stats......... 1. Cub wins: 77 2. Cub wins vs Cardinals: 11 3. Number of runs scored: 726 4. Number of earned runs allowed: 699 Player Stats & Scoring 1. Number of Lee HRs: 46 2. Number of Patterson BBs: 24 3. Nomar Batting Average: .280 ( I'm guessing here ) 4. Aramis RBIs: 93 5. Maddux Wins: 13 6. Zambrano ERA: 3.04 7. Wood Ks: 77 8. Mark Prior Starts: 28 Tiebreaker: Barrett OPS: .826 I came up with the following player scores for the contest. Disclaimer: This is just Fred talking.... not to be confused with anything official from Serena !!! Player Score burnt out cubbie fan 660 TB_11 575 Bob's Keeper 535 Dr. Cub 510 cubs dane 410 Treebeard 395 Notorius 390 Tinkers2Evers 390 UMFan83 365 Bull-Rino-Bowa-Penquin 360 Sweetpeteman 360 JC 355 vance_the_cubs_fan 340 TrueBlueCubFan 335 Knyption 330 Chief_Cardinal 330 Tim 320 Fred Hornkohl 310 rawaction 305 sherwood921 300 NCCubbieFan 300 DJAXXFAN 290 It Mikght Be! 290 Outshined_one 285 sethuel1 285 CT Cubs Fan 285 USSoccer 285 Sandberg23 280 Fortybelow16 265 BigbadB 255 Brinoch 250 CPatterson20 250 Sabremetrician 240 Coach C 225 CubsInNC 225 Rocket Sauce 215 coldsteel 195 10man 170 RoastTheD___Goat 165 mhuber92211 160 Mark Prior's Calves 160 Knightlife_in_Lubbock 145 Mizzou 130 Gracie's Girl 110

Just for the sake of persepctive.... the 44 players who entered Serena's Predictions Contest for the season guessed, on the average, that the CUBS would win 91.2 games, with a high guess of 99 and a low of 79. That's a good 10-12 games worth of Blue, Kool-Aid, eh?

Can you give us a link on that one?

Worthless stats of the day for Wednesday..... CUBS are 10-10 on Wednesdays CUBS are 4-1 vs. Los Angeles CUBS are 32-38 in the day time. CUBS are 33-35 at home. CUBS are 22-19 in games that end a series CUBS are 6-3 in games ending a homestand CUBS are 5-5 when Hornkohl attends a game at Wrigley...28-30 when he doesn't CUBS are 5-8 when Rusch starts Rusch is 6 of 13 in quality starts Rusch's ERA pitching to Barrett is 4.01.... Rusch has not pitched to Blanco CUBS score 4.52 R/G overall.... 3.69 R/G when Rusch pitches CUBS hit 1.24 HR/G overall.... 1.15 HR/G when Rusch pitches CUBS' offensive support of Rusch..... 04/04 - 08/30 AB R H 2b 3b HR TB RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS CUBS w/Rusch 430 48 110 23 2 15 182 44 41 69 0.256 0.321 0.423 0.744 CUBS overall 4571 596 1257 276 20 164 2065 571 348 744 0.275 0.329 0.452 0.781 Rusch's last five starts..... Rusch IP H R ER BB K HR PC BB/9 K/9 HR/9 WHIP ERA 08/26 vs. Flor 4.7 8 5 4 2 2 0 89 3.86 3.86 0.00 2.14 7.71 08/20 vs. Colo 6.0 7 3 2 1 6 0 93 1.50 9.00 0.00 1.33 3.00 08/15 vs. Houst 3.3 10 5 5 2 4 1 92 5.40 10.80 2.70 3.60 13.50 06/23 vs. Milw 6.0 7 4 4 3 2 2 103 4.50 3.00 3.00 1.67 6.00 06/18 vs. Yanks 5.0 9 5 4 1 3 0 98 1.80 5.40 0.00 2.00 7.20 5 game totals 25.0 41 22 19 9 17 3 475 3.24 6.12 1.08 2.00 6.84 Rusch's splits..... Rusch IP H R ER BB K HR PC BB/9 K/9 HR/9 WHIP ERA Home 53.7 65 25 22 19 43 5 952 3.19 7.21 0.84 1.57 3.69 Road 57.7 69 34 32 26 46 5 1044 4.06 7.18 0.78 1.65 4.99 Day 52.0 66 28 25 28 39 4 971 4.85 6.75 0.69 1.81 4.33 Nite 59.3 68 31 29 17 50 6 1025 2.58 7.58 0.91 1.43 4.40 season totals 111.3 134 59 54 45 89 10 1996 3.64 7.19 0.81 1.61 4.37 CUBS' season series vs. Los Angeles..... Gm# Date Opponent Score Starter 49 Mon 05/30 @ Los Angeles N 5- 3 Maddux 50 Tue 05/31 @ Los Angeles N 2- 1 Zambrano 51 Wed 06/01 @ Los Angeles N 9- 5 Koronka 131 Mon 08/29 Los Angeles N 6- 9 Williams 132 Tue 08/30 Los Angeles N 6- 3 Prior 133 Wed 08/31 Los Angeles - Rusch CUBS' hitters vs. Los Angeles..... CUBS AB R H 2B 3B HR TB RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS Ramirez 8 2 6 1 0 1 10 1 0 1 0.750 0.750 1.250 2.000 Garciaparra 7 2 3 0 0 2 9 3 0 1 0.429 0.375 1.286 1.661 McClain 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0.500 0.500 1.000 1.500 Cedeno 3 1 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0.667 0.667 0.667 1.333 Perez 19 4 9 1 0 1 13 4 0 1 0.474 0.474 0.684 1.158 Walker 17 3 6 3 0 1 12 3 2 2 0.353 0.421 0.706 1.127 Lee 23 3 9 2 0 1 14 4 1 2 0.391 0.417 0.609 1.025 Burnitz 21 4 6 1 0 2 13 3 1 2 0.286 0.318 0.619 0.937 Hairston 15 2 3 1 0 1 7 1 1 0 0.200 0.250 0.467 0.717 Patterson 15 2 4 2 0 0 6 0 0 5 0.267 0.267 0.400 0.667 Murton 3 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0.333 0.333 0.333 0.667 Hollandsworth 7 1 2 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 0.286 0.375 0.286 0.661 Barrett 12 2 2 0 0 1 5 2 1 1 0.167 0.231 0.417 0.647 Dubois 9 0 2 1 0 0 3 1 0 3 0.222 0.222 0.333 0.556 Blanco 6 0 1 0 0 0 1 4 0 0 0.167 0.167 0.167 0.333 Wilson 5 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0.200 0.200 0.200 0.400 Macias 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 vs. L.A. 184 28 58 13 0 10 101 28 7 25 0.315 0.339 0.549 0.887 overall 4571 596 1257 271 21 162 2056 572 348 741 0.275 0.329 0.450 0.779 CUBS' pitchers vs. Los Angeles..... CUBS IP H R ER BB K HR PC BB/9 K/9 HR/9 WHIP ERA Zambrano 8.0 1 1 0 2 9 0 124 2.25 10.13 0.00 0.38 0.00 Wuertz 4.3 2 0 0 3 8 0 86 6.23 16.62 0.00 1.15 0.00 Ohman 1.7 0 0 0 0 0 0 19 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Novoa 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Wood 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 7 0.00 9.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Maddux 6.0 5 2 1 0 3 0 83 0.00 4.50 0.00 0.83 1.50 Dempster 4.0 3 1 1 0 2 1 72 0.00 4.50 2.25 0.75 2.25 Prior 6.0 8 3 3 0 7 2 94 0.00 10.50 3.00 1.33 4.50 Wellemeyer 5.3 4 3 3 7 1 0 106 11.81 1.69 0.00 2.06 5.06 Koronka 5.0 6 3 3 3 4 1 98 5.40 7.20 1.80 1.80 5.40 Borowski 1.0 1 1 1 0 0 1 19 0.00 0.00 9.00 1.00 9.00 Williamson 1.0 1 1 1 0 2 1 17 0.00 18.00 9.00 1.00 9.00 Williams 1.7 5 6 5 3 0 0 45 16.20 0.00 0.00 4.80 27.00 vs. L.A. 46.0 36 21 18 18 37 6 782 3.52 7.24 1.17 1.17 3.52 overall 1171.7 1109 600 566 478 1022 160 19347 3.67 7.85 1.23 1.35 4.35 Go CUBS !!

So..... why weren't you posting more ??? :wink:

TOP OF THE NINTH INNING Dempster in to pitch (7th), Patterson in cf, Hairston from cf to lf for the CUBS A Perez, pinch hitting for Dressens, flied out to left field Edwards flied out to right field Navarro doubled to right center field Cruz singled to right field, Navarro to third Saenz, pinch hitting for Choi, flied out to left field 0 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 men left on base 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Los Angeles 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 10 0 CUBS 0 1 0 0 0 4 0 1 x 6 11 0 CUBS WIN !! CUBS WIN !! CUBS WIN !! W: Prior (10-5) S: Dempster (20) L: Penny (6-9) T: 2:38 A: 37,552 Home runs: Los Angeles: Edwards (2), Kent, (24), CUBS: Garciaparra (4) pitcher IP H R ER BB K HR PIT Prior 6.0 8 3 3 0 7 2 94 Ohman 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 Novoa 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 Dempster 1.0 2 0 0 0 0 0 25

CUBS are 46-9 when they give up 3 runs or less, 16-60 when they don't Go CUBS !!

Let's make it 7-0! Hey.... that works for me !! :wink:

That's the first hit given up by the bullpen tonight !

CUBS are 6-0 when the lead by 3 going into the 9th inning. Go CUBS !!

BOTTOM OF THE EIGHTH INNING Brazoban in to pitch for Los Angeles Walker doubled off the wall in right field Murton sacrificed, 2-4, Walker to third Blanco bunted out to the pitcher, 1-3, Walker scored McClain, pinch hitting for Novoa, doubled down the right field line, Patterson in to pinch run Hairston flied out to left field 1 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 men left on base 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Los Angeles 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 8 0 CUBS 0 1 0 0 0 4 0 1 6 11 0 Home runs: Los Angeles: Edwards (2), Kent, (24), CUBS: Garciaparra (4)

OMG !!! Did I really see what I think I saw ?????