and it’s Josh Fogg. We should be able to win the series today. If we win most series from here on out, we’ll be fine.

That said, fwhere I was sitting close to third base, it actually looked like Theriot should have gotten that ball into left field. He hung his head a bit on the way back to his position which indicated to me he thought he should have had it.

was frustrating in that Lilly pitched so well, but so did Arroyo, who seems to rise to the occassion against the Cubs. The Cubs really could use some more power production from Lee. It has been so long since he has homered consistently, the thought never really even occurs when he’s at bat lately. Also, doubles power out of Fukudome, let alone singles, has all but disappeared. Alas, the Cubs are still playing great ball, and said players have a month to find their strokes. Let’s go beat up on Fogg today, and get Big Z back on track.

Seeing games like this. This team should be getting more runs then that. I know it happens sometimes to every good hitting team. It just seems like sometimes when we have a bad game like that it carries over. Let’s hope that it doesn’t this time, since they have been playing such good baseball as of late.

Harden just barely outpitched Cueto and we won, now Arroyo just barely outpitched Lilly and they wont. I have faith the Cubs couldnt really sleep last night and will come out and put some crooked numbers on the board today.

Z should relax and getting things right against the free swinging Reds. This should serve as a spring board for the final push. He should get at least 7 starts and make a push toward 20 wins, an outside chance I know, but something to push for. No time like the present. Let’s win the next two before the Brewers even play a game to keep the pressure on!

Cubs number. His pitching style seems to always give the team fits. He throws a lot of off-speed junk and rarely challenges even the weakest hitters. He seems to suck against everyone else but manages to beat us on a regular basis. I’ll bet his record is pretty good against us.

he even homered a couple times against the Cubs and Glendon Rusch, if I remember correctly.

a couple more timely hits and they win this game. what can you do other than go out and get ’em today.

what do “they” say wins in the playoffs? pitching and we have been unbelievable lately…..the bats will come around, there is a reason why we have a +170 run differential (easily the tops in the bigs, next closest is chisox/bosox at +117)

I would have been perfectly fine skipping this recap and starting off the morning with today’s pregame thread. 11:30 feels so far away.

and I don’t know why. I don’t think he was even mentioned in the recap and for that I am thankful. Enough about him.

I like how the Cubs don’t rely so heavily on the long ball like the south siders, but it would be nice to see Aram and DLee hit them more consistently, where has their power gone? I mean Dero is only 3 short of DLee.

Should be a day for Z to turn it around. I’m sure a lot of people saw Z and Geo at Humboldt Park for the mini Cubs field, isn’t there one somewhere off of Ashland already?

Umpires and MLB have signed an agreement on using replay, however no start date has been set. Definitely looking more like this year will be the case after all.

Linky

the article on Samardzija, good stuff. I liked hearing Ankiel say Marmol’s slider and fastball look exactly the same coming out of his hand. I was talking to my step-dad about it yesterday, when Wood and Marmol are on, it’s just unfair to be a hitter.

these are the kind of games that you have to find a way to win.

These are typical playoff type games, low scoring one or two run games where little things cost you. You are not going to win them all.

Dero made great plays no question, but the wild pitch, the Theriot/Sori ball, the called 3rd strikes to end a game. Its that kind of stuff that you dont want to see a pattern of this late in the season.

Hopefully, being in some of these, even losing some of them can only help down the stretch.