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Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
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Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
Keegan Thompson
Hayden Wesneski 
* Jordan Wicks

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* Miles Mastrobuoni
Christopher Morel
Dansby Swanson

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Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

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Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Luke Little, P 
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

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Seiya Suzuki, OF
Patrick Wisdom, INF 

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Jameson Taillon, P 

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Caleb Kilian, P 
Julian Merryweather, P
 




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Game 2 Recap: Astros 3, Cubs 2 in 10 Innings

Submitted by Cubnut on

Update--more on Soto...

From Wittenmyer's game story in the Sun-Times:

Soto, who said he felt ''discomfort'' on an awkward throw to second...is to be re-examined [Wednesday]. Manager Lou Piniella suggested a possible return during the next series, which opens Friday in Milwaukee. It wasn't considered serious enough to schedule an MRI.

Soto...downplayed the injury. He said he has had similar discomfort before, as recently as this spring.

 

W - Doug Brocail (1-0)
L - Neil Cotts (0-1)

Box score

In the early innings of Tuesday night's game, Pat Hughes and Ron Santo discussed the fact that the Cubs have not started a season 2-0 since Pat and Ron began working together in the WGN radio booth in 1996. Naturally, this had the effect of jinxing the team and thus, the outcome was inevitable.

Cub bats: There was very little thunder from the Cub offense Tuesday night. Derrek Lee had an RBI single and Alfonso Soriano, who whiffed in his first three at-bats against Astros starter Wandy Rodriguez, clubbed a titanic, game-tying, solo home run in the 8th inning against our old friend, LaTroy Hawkins. Problem was, Soriano's homer was one of only two hits the Cubs had in four innings against the Houston bullpen. Milton Bradley, still looking for his first Cub hit, rapped sharply into a double play when he batted with runners at first and second and none out in the sixth.

Cub pitching: Ryan Dempster left the game after the sixth inning, trailing 2-1. He fanned five, while giving up 6 hits and 3 walks. Angel Guzman pitched a terrific inning of relief. Neil Cotts bailed Aaron Heilman out of a ninth inning jam, but then allowed the first two men to reach base in the 10th and ultimately took the loss when Kevin Gregg gave up the game-winning hit to Jeff Keppinger with the bases loaded.

Noteworthy: Maybe even extremely noteworthy--Geo Soto left the game after the sixth inning because of "soreness in his right shoulder."

One other thing: Santo to Hughes, after Hughes offered an on-air plug for Cubs sponsor, Dairy Queen...

Whenever you say Dairy Queen, I think of that soft ice cream.

 

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Submitted by rokfish on Wed, 04/08/2009 - 04:26 am

well shit soto sore shoulder dont think anyone saw this coming or picked him in robs cub contest. did not see game did he get hit or make ackward throw? i would guess marshall is going to pitch on friday given he pitched on sunday my guess would be marshall in the fourth inning on friday.

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Submitted by WISCGRAD on Wed, 04/08/2009 - 04:53 pm

When you put the ball in play you will hit into more double plays. When you are on base more and run more you will get caught stealing more. I would like to see Fukudome's numbers in both those categories increase because it would mean he is doing something other than flailing at strike three. I don't think anyone is making conclusions based off of two games. I think they were just pointing out that our most recent two data points seem to confirm and reinforce the 162 we have from last season. I want to see Fukudome do well, because it will mean the team will perform better, but right now he looks lost and Theriot looks hot. So I would rather they switched spots in the order until Fukudome gets it going. If he is performing well, I don't really care where he hits.

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Submitted by The Real Neal on Wed, 04/08/2009 - 04:43 pm

You're the one who brought OBP into it. The value behind OBP is that you you're not making outs. But when you look at everything over the seasons, Theriot functionally, due to team leading ability to GIDP and get caught stealing, made outs at a higher clip than Fukudome. Just because Fukudome sucks, doesn't mean that Theriot should be batting in the most important spot in the order. It would make a lot more sense, at least against righties to have The Fontenaught bat second. Theriot should be down at the bottom where he won't deprive the 3-5 hitters of RBI opportunities, and he can be sacrificed to second when he gets on. If it were up to me, Fukudome would be in Daytona.

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Submitted by SJS on Wed, 04/08/2009 - 04:46 pm

Well said WI, as with all my man-love for TheRiot, my comments were tongue-in-cheek, not to mention that with one game for each in the two hole the sample size is so small that I hoped that people would understand the obvious attempt at sorry humor. However, I believe that until Fuk can learn to hit MLB pitching, he should hit 8th if he will be in lineup (where I said before that he would probably see an increased number of off-speed pitches, which is what he saw a lot of in Japan- where he was a good hitter). We all want Fuk to succeed (some because he's a Cub, and others because they want him to be traded), and I would like to think that everyone would want TheRiot to succeed as well. I (and thankfully a few others) tend to believe that the more Lou gives Fuk a rediculous opportunity that over time it will cost us games. I think that Game 1 and 2 proved that FUk in the 2 hole did us no favors.

Submitted by RI Mike on Wed, 04/08/2009 - 04:07 am

Soriano cannot continue to lead off. Most of his at-bats were horrible last night. To lead off the game, he worked a 3-0 count for a strikeout, swinging at ball four several times. And another solo shot. Give me a break. Turns out not too many runners are on base when he leads off an inning, and our 8 and 9 hitters aren't often on base either. If Lou is half as good as he (and most others) think he is, he would deal with this. If he doesn't, he gets what he deserves, but we deserve better. I'm already completely frustrated, having watched this time after time after time.

Submitted by kmokeefe on Wed, 04/08/2009 - 04:27 am

I know it was discussed in parachat, but I really think Lou was mainly responsible for this loss. Bringing Cotts in to face the heart of the Astros order was dangerous in itself, I felt very fortunate to leave that inning. But I really don't understand the decision to leave him in for the 10th. And then going with Gregg at the end? Marmol's stuff was easily best suited to get us out of the jam.

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Submitted by Doug Dascenzo on Wed, 04/08/2009 - 04:34 am

Agreed. But maybe Marmol didn't get enough work this spring to go back-to-back games yet or something. Extra inning games in the first week have to be tough on the bullpen. In other news, Gregg has been less than impressive so far.

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Submitted by Old and Blue on Wed, 04/08/2009 - 04:28 am

baseball was discussed in parachat? Did I miss something?

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Submitted by kmokeefe on Wed, 04/08/2009 - 04:31 am

only briefly, I think between the boy porking his grandma and the ugly single lady at the grocery store

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Submitted by Jackstraw on Wed, 04/08/2009 - 04:10 pm

Wow, the stuff you miss by not being in Parachat. Sounds like White Sox fan talk to me. If I remember correctly, the winning run scored on ...infield single, seeing-eye ground ball single, fly out, and broken bat single. Like most one-run victories, more luck than anything else. It seems to me that if you want to blame Lou or Gregg for that, you're going to have a long season. Cubs lost. They're going to lose another 70 or so this season. Move along and get 'em today.

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Submitted by Ryno on Wed, 04/08/2009 - 04:29 am

Agreed that was silly, but scoring some more runs against Wandy would have been cool, too.

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Submitted by Bigz on Wed, 04/08/2009 - 04:18 pm

I think Lou is a bit nervous with Marmol and wildness in that situation where Gregg can throw strikes.

Submitted by hellfrozeover on Wed, 04/08/2009 - 04:37 pm

I have to disagree that Gregg is less than impressive. His run given up on Monday night was due to Milton Bradley dropping a fairly routine fly ball, and the hit that scored the game winner last night was a little squib of a ground ball that was hit perfectly in between SS and 3B. Bigger blame I think has to go to the offense for not taking advantage of a good scoring situation with 2 on and nobody out. Or just in general having trouble with a soft-tossing lefty. Gotta love Latroy though.

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Submitted by Doug Dascenzo on Wed, 04/08/2009 - 04:35 pm

The hit that won the game wasn't a rope, but a hit's a hit. I know it's a small sample size, but Gregg just seems a bit too hittable. Bradley's miss was hardly a "routine fly ball" - more like a hard, sinking line drive. As for last night, Keppinger's single might not have been a great hit, but Michaels' fly to CF to advance Pudge to third was a 400+ foot blast that would have been out in a lot of ballparks. I didn't say he's going to suck all year, but after 2 games I've seen him give up multiple runs (fine, 1 was inherited) and get hit pretty hard while striking out nobody.

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