Cubs Walk Away With Extra-Inning Win Over Nationals

What do you get when you are stung by a bee and bitten by a mosquito at the same time?

Sting along with Itch.

Kinda hard to describe but it was a board, maybe 8×10, with a big line-drawn face on it. Had a clear plastic covering over it and a bunch of little magnetized flakes inside. Then you took this red plastic stylus which had a little magnet on the end, and used it to drag-n-drop the little flakes on the face. You could give the face a big afro, bushy eyebrows, fu manchu, etc. I always went with the big muttonchop sideburns…

The potty-mouth direction, that is. :)

yelling “GET THE BALL BACK TO THE PITCHER ON THE FLY!”

Joy.

ump wasn’t calling the high strike the whole game… and when you’re as wild as Bruney has been, you don’t get that call (or the call that was right below the strike zone either.

… showed it was pretty high, just at the bottom of the “Cubs” logo on Aramis’ jersey as it crossed the zone. Some days its a strike, some days it isn’t.

… because he throws strikes, he may never have to throw that many. 90 in 7 innings last night — impressive.

Marmol does look comfortable (at least so far this year), and it’s a much different thing to close than pitch the eighth. Z would have to have success for a lot longer before you’d have him spell Marmol …or at least be put in there for a blowout.

If he can keep that up, he’s gonna have a much better season this year. I was very encouraged to see them win with two walks…I doubt that would have been possible last year, even if the game winning one looked like the ump was cold and wanted to go home.

Maybe he is getting through to the Fonz about the junk balls?

And that any other hitting coach was going to cost money as well – I don’t see why everyone gets up in arms about it (or, did before the bats came alive). If he helps us squeeze even a win or two more out of our bats, his salary is a worthwhile investment.

if it works…great…

if it doesnt ….Z will get boo’d, be mad that he is in the pen and demand a trade…thus the Cubs get out of his salary….or most of it

I sat in Outfield Terrace Reserve section 240 – right field corner. So I was right in last night’s jet stream.

It helped when people sat in front of us as wind blockers. We almost had 3 women convinced their seats were right in front of us.

The ball stayed in the air too long!

Was that the giant C patch on the left breast felt uncomfortable while he was pitching. Didn’t seem to bother him last night, though.

he looked a lot thinner yesterday.

I was fairly worried about this picture. :P

“But I feel good to help my team and will do everything to help solve the problem. A different Carlos wouldn’t be smiling right now. He would be (ticked) off or disagreed with the manager. I agree. I feel good. I’m happy with the way things are right now.”

He basically said in a nutshell by summer Z would be traded or such a problem he would have to be traded. What does Stone know about this? Is he in our locker room every day? Does he call Z and talk? Totally bad journalism.

and said “WHY ARE THEY ASKING HIM??”

Is that the hits don’t start coming in bunches. If they get spread out over the innings he pitches, then it may not be as worrisome. But if and when we get to the point where 3 or 4 hits start bunching up in an inning, then happy days may not be here anymore…

For instance, it was so cold and windy last night , it surely kept a number of balls in the park that would have gone out for the Nats. I’ll just take it while it’s here…and hopefully Z will be back to form with a replacement for him in the pen when it does happen.

Nothing like you’re talking about, but still pretty wide to me. I’d be interested to see why that’s allowed with Bugeyes or anyone else.

Here’s a question I’ve wondered about. Batters do this, apparently, so they can stand as far back as possible so as to get a longer (a fraction of a second, probably) look at a pitch.

With so many splitters being thrown now — balls that dive at the last second — why wouldn’t you want to stand more forward in the batter’s box, so you could hit that ball before it sinks?

Here.

Carlos Silva, Carlos Zambrano and Carlos Marmol all pitched in Monday’s game. It’s the first time the Cubs used three pitchers with the same first name in a game since June 5, 1966, when Bill Hands, Bill Connors and Bill Hoeft all appeared in an 8-3 loss to the Reds in Cincinnati. Thanks to historian Ed Hartig for that.

It would be our luck to face him on a hot streak. We need Gorzy on his game tonight, it might be even more low scoring than last night.

That we can beat He-Shall-Be-Livan. However, maybe only one or two runs wins it.

You can be sure it wasn’t easy. Probably some freak accident.

They went IMMEDIATELY to coverage of the Red Sawks. They even started out by talking over the spanish feed to the game. ESPN’s world consists of New York, Boston, and the rest of the league heathens they must play to win a WS each year.

I don’t think it’d be a bad thing for the Cubs to sign him. He was terrible last year, but there was plenty of reason to think that was kind of a fluke. Unless Cruz has some issues that we don’t know about, releasing him was a questionable (at best) move by the Royals considering their severe bullpen issues. Poor Greinke, Meche, and Bannister. They deserve a better bullpen.

Limited to two per manager, per game. It would add strategy — do you use one up in the 1st inning, or wait till later — that play last night was in the 9th and could have been challenged if a manager had one of his two left.

After the Cubs beat the Diamondbacks.

He’s been beyond anything I expected.