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The Best Cubs Games of July 2009



The Hot Streak finally came!  What an exciting month to be a Cubs fan.  The Cubs won most of the games they had to win and beat the teams that they should beat e.g. Washington Nationals and the Dusty play of the Reds.  It was especially fun for me because I attended two walk off Cubs wins, one being my first ever walk off home run I attended (I was the guy waving the W flag on a stick pointing to the camera during "Go Cubs Go") on July 27.  I also caught my first bleacher home run which was Ludwick's 2nd home run in the nightcap of the Cubs-Cards doubleheader, and I threw the REAL ball back almost immediately and the reception was awesome. 

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 The Cubs entered July two games under .500 in 4th place 4.5 games behind Milwaukee and finished 7games over .500 in 2nd place just a half game behind the Cardinals even after dealing with injury adversity.  The Cubs got 18 wins in July so I'm dividing them by pre all-star break and post all-star break because the Cubs went 11-4 after the break through the end of July.  Choose wisely and give me some recommendations please.

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What's your favorite Cubs game from July?
a1 - 7/1: Cubs beat Pirates 4-1.
0 votes
a2- 7/2: Cubs beat Milwaukee 9-5.
0 votes
a3- 7/3: Cubs win on Jake Fox's walk-off walk in 10 innings to beat Milwaukee 2-1.
11 votes
a4 - 7/5: Ted Lilly shows TBS viewers why he's an all-star by beating the Brewers 8-2.
1 votes
a5 - Cubs beat Atlanta 4-2 on 70's night... no Tornado's on this 70's night.
1 votes
a6 - 7/11: Cubs beat the Cardinals 5-2.
1 votes
a7 - 7/12: Cubs win game one of the day-night DH vs. St.Louis 7-3.
1 votes
b1- 7/16: Cubs beat the Nats 6-2.
0 votes
b2 - 7/17: Cubs beat the Nats again 3-1.
0 votes
b3 - 7/18: Nats show why they lose all the time and error their way to a Cubs 6-5 win.
2 votes
b4 - Cubs finish the 4-game sweep of the Nats in dominating fashion 11-3.
3 votes
b5 - 7/22: Cubs salvage a possibe sweep by the Phillies 10-5 without a home run.
0 votes
b6 - 7/24: Cubs beat the Dusty Reds 8-5.
1 votes
b7 - 7/25: Cubs beat the Dusty Reds again 5-3.
0 votes
b8 - 7/26: Cubs finish the sweep of the Dusty Reds 5-2 and move into 1st place.
5 votes
b9 - 7/27: Soriano hits a walk-off grand slam to beat the Astros 5-1 in 13 innings.
42 votes
b10 - 7/29: "The Houston Slaughter- Act I" Cubs give Houston a problem 12-0.
11 votes
b11 - 7/30: "The Houston Slaughter- Act II" Cubs leave Houston with a problem 12-3.
3 votes

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That's awesome that you caught a HR ball

congrats!! And doubly awesome that you threw the real ball back because Ludwick hit it! :)

"Yes, dear. You're right. I'm sorry." -Bob Brenly

by ambrosiadreams on Aug 4, 2009 11:02 AM CDT reply actions  

Soriano's walk off

grand slam was by far my favorite, it really made it worth staying up that late to watch it.

by Fonzie2178 on Aug 4, 2009 11:19 AM CDT reply actions  

Soriano's Wak Off

Because I actually got to go to Chicago to see it.

"No enemy is more dangerous, than the enemy that has nothing to lose." Mark Grace

by GateCity, VA Cubs Fan on Aug 4, 2009 1:12 PM CDT reply actions  

7/5

Was my first game at Wrigley

by JPetey on Aug 4, 2009 2:25 PM CDT reply actions  

Hmmmmmm.

Well, the Soriano walkoff was pretty memorable – and I was asleep at the time. But those back-to-back blowouts of the ‘Stros were pretty damn fun. (Geez, that Brewers series seems so long ago.) I think I’m gonna go with the 12-0 shellacking of the Astros. There’s something sublime about a blowout-shutout.

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by daver on Aug 4, 2009 2:32 PM CDT reply actions  

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