Archive - Sep 2, 2008
Game 139 Thread / Astros @ Cubs (2 of 3)
Submitted by Cubnut on Tue, 09/02/2008 - 4:50pm.
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| SP | Brandon Backe | SP | Carlos Zambrano |
| 9-12, 5.42, 122 K, 72 BB, 159.1 IP | 13-5, 3.53, 114 K, 61 BB, 168.1 IP | ||
| CF | *Michael Bourn | LF | Alfonso Soriano |
| LF | Ty Wigginton | 2B | *Mike Fontenot |
| SS | Miguel Tejada | 1B | Derrek Lee |
| 1B | #Lance Berkman | 3B | Aramis Ramirez |
| 3B | #Geoff Blum | RF | Mark DeRosa |
| RF | Hunter Pence | CF | *Jim Edmonds |
| 2B | *David Newhan | C | Geovany Soto |
| C | Humberto Quintero | SS | Ryan Theriot |
| P | Brandon Backe | P | #Carlos Zambrano |
While Cub fans are hoping that the team's bats will come back to life (no EBH's among the club's last 27 hits), the greater concern right now is with Carlos Zambrano.
All Cubdom would like to see that the two extra days of rest Zambrano got when his scheduled Sunday start was pushed back to this evening have proven beneficial to his "fatigued" "dead" tired arm. If nothing else, in the span of those two days, the calendar turned from August to September.
Final Minor League Records
Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 09/02/2008 - 1:29pm.
The minor league season ended over the weekend and here's how the lil' Cubbies fared.
(WHOOPS! - I guess Boise still has 2 games left. Close enough... )
Read the rest of this entry>>>TCR Tuesday Notes
Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 09/02/2008 - 11:13am.
Just a few things that have been lying in my "in" box...
- Updating the August Player of the Month race, DeRosa and Ramirez didn't do much to help themselves this weekend. Ramirez did end up with the most RBI's in August, but his .975 OPS for the month is good for only 16th out of players with at least 50 PA's. DeRosa ended up 5th in OPS, 2nd in Runs Scored and 3rd in extra-base hits. Manny Ramirez had the highest OPS and his .415 BA along with 9 home runs(tied for 2nd) is going to look appealing as will Ty Wigginton's 12 HR's(1st), 26 RBI's(2nd) and 19 XBH's (1st).
- Fred Mitchell teases Cubs fans that Geovany Soto could have been an Orioles as part of the Sammy Sosa trade back in 2005.
- For those worried about the Cubs collapsing in September, don't forget Lou does his best work in September. The numbers in that article don't account for 2007, where the Cubs were 17-12.
- Alex Eisenberg, who runs things at Baseball Intellect, does some video breakdowns of 2008 draftees at The Hardball Times. Here's Andrew Cashner's and Ryan Flaherty's videos.