No chance of advancement, but it's good to see a strong throw from Hoffpauir. McLaughlin and Hrabosky doing the equivocation game of trying to make the Cubs sound not as good.
True, but never underestimate Dave Duncan's ability to shine a turd. Duncan couldn't do much with him last year. 34 IP, 7.41 ERA, 13/22 K/BB, 1.88 WHIP, 5 HR, .919 OPS against
From LaRussa: "No matter what happened in the game, the big thing is it looks like he(Carpenter) is going to be out for a while. That kind of overwhelms everything else that happened in that game. ... I'm not happy. This is a [expletive] day. I'm not going to fake it." At GRB I saw a timetable of 5-6 weeks that might be changed to several months, but I'm not sure how accurate that is.
I think it's just a saying. Gameday led by saying he grounded into a force out. I've seen a lot of should be double plays where they just call it a fielder's choice, and no error. I think they scored it an error cause Hill scored.