Chicago Cubs vs. Milwaukee Brewers Preview, Tuesday 9/20, 7:05 CT: Preventing Clinching

by Al Yellon on Sep 20, 2011 5:00 PM CDT in Chicago Cubs Game Threads

The Cubs can continue to have considerable influence over the NL Central race the next two days. Milwaukee's magic number remains at four; with a 5.5 game lead over the Cardinals it would seem to be just a matter of time. But you never know. The Cardinals have games at home against the Mets this week. The Cubs have won four of the five games played between them and the Brewers at Wrigley Field so far this year.

The pitching matchup tonight is a bit more even, on paper at least, than last night's was. And yet, the Cubs won Monday night anyway. I don't have a whole lot more to say about this game, except that you can go to it for free. Well, almost free:

@KerryWood
Kerry Wood Bring 10 cans of food to Wrigley today and get a ticket to today's game. 20 cans gets you 2, 30 gets you 3 and so on and so on.
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Cubs lineup:

Castro SS, Barney 2B, Ramirez 3B, Peña 1B, LaHair RF, Soriano LF, Byrd CF, Soto C, Wells P

Brewers lineup:

Hart RF, Morgan CF, Braun LF, Fielder 1B, Weeks 2B, McGehee 3B, Betancourt SS, Lucroy C, Marcum P

Today's Starting Pitchers


Randy Wells Cubs	vs.	Shaun Marcum Brewers

7-4	W-L	12-7
4.93	ERA	3.40
77	SO	149
42	BB	54
21	HR	20
vs. Mil	--	vs. Cubs

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2011 - Randy Wells	7-4	21	21	1	1	0	0	122.1	129	68	67	21	42	77	4.93	1.40

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2011 - Shaun Marcum	12-7	31	31	0	0	0	0	188.0	160	76	71	20	54	149	3.40	1.14

Randy Wells and Shaun Marcum matched up on July 28 at Miller Park. Wells pitched pretty well, although he gave up a long home run to Ryan Braun. Marcum pitched better and the Brewers won. That is Marcum's only career start vs. the Cubs.

Braun, in fact, is Wells' particular nemesis. Braun is 10-for-24 (.417) against Wells with that home run, and two doubles. Overall, current Brewers are 49-for-147 against Wells (.333). Two other Brewers have homered off Randy: Casey McGehee and Prince Fielder.

Today's game is on CSN Chicago and FSN Wisconsin. Here is the complete MLB.com Mediacenter for today.

MLB.com Gameday

Baseball-reference.com game preview

SB Nation game preview

Please visit our SB Nation Brewers site Brew Crew Ball. As always, be careful over there.

Today's first pitch thread will be up at 7:05 p.m. CDT and the overflow threads will post at 8 pm, 9 pm and 9:45 pm CDT. If you need more overflows due to extra innings or rain delays, post them in the fanshot section.

Discuss amongst yourselves.

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free tix for food?!?!?!?!?

plus it’s beer night in the bleachers, right? at least 38,000 tonight!!

by doofus cubs guy on Sep 20, 2011 5:03 PM CDT reply actions

They are there to see Byrd and Soriano play!

At least thats what Quade thinks…..

by TJ11 on Sep 20, 2011 5:05 PM CDT up reply actions

Woo! More Byrd!

"I'm not a broadcaster! I'm me!"--Ron Santo

by chilango2 on Sep 20, 2011 5:11 PM CDT up reply actions

I'm not sure who is dumber...

Quade for playing Byrd and Soriano almost full time down the stretch of a totally lost season or the beat reporters for not calling him out for doing it.

As I've told you before, I never repeat myself.

by santoswoodenlegs on Sep 20, 2011 5:13 PM CDT up reply actions

Both

by TJ11 on Sep 20, 2011 5:14 PM CDT up reply actions

I think Quade's doing this as a 'screw you' to everyone since he won't be back this year.

Which would be funny, at least.

Seeya Jimbo! Good job, Tommy Boy!

by shoemile on Sep 20, 2011 5:15 PM CDT up reply actions

by PacificCub on Sep 20, 2011 7:17 PM CDT up reply actions

by santoswoodenlegs on Sep 20, 2011 5:16 PM CDT up reply actions

Gary Pressy is Cubs organist

He’ll be playing some Christmasy songs tomorrow!!

by doofus cubs guy on Sep 20, 2011 5:18 PM CDT up reply actions

Marlon Byrd's instructions to Soriano and LaHair

“Now you guys just stand on those red Xs that I painted in the outfield. Catch anything that’s hit to you. I’ll run down the rest of the balls. No, you can’t both stand on one X.”

"Just shut up and play" - Matt Garza

by RiskyBusiness on Sep 20, 2011 5:18 PM CDT reply actions