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Z Redemption Day Thread: Cubs vs. Mets, Wednesday 9/24, 6:10 CT


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Chicago Cubs
@ New York Mets

Wednesday, Sep 24, 2008, 6:10 PM CDT
Shea Stadium

Carlos Zambrano vs Oliver Perez

Partly cloudy. Winds blowing in from center field at 10-15 m.p.h. Game Time temperature: Around 65.

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Are you ready? I am. (My playoff tickets came today and I'm excited!)

Game 1 here I come!

Since we're on the subject of images/photos, let me NOT forget today's Gratuitous Geo Photo (even though he may not play tonight):

All's right with the world. The Gratuitous Geo Photo is back!

Today's Starting Pitchers
Carlos Zambrano
C. Zambrano
Cubs
vs. Oliver Perez
O.
Perez

Mets
14-6 W-L 10-7
3.77 ERA 4.10
128 SO 168
68 BB 97
17 HR 23
vs. NY -- vs. Cubs

W-L G GS CG SHO SV BS IP H R ER HR BB K ERA WHIP
2008 - Carlos Zambrano 14-6 29 29 1 1 0 0 184.0 169 80 77 17 68 128 3.77 1.29


W-L G GS CG SHO SV BS IP H R ER HR BB K ERA WHIP
2008 - Oliver Perez 10-7 32 32 0 0 0 0 184.1 157 93 84 23 97 168 4.10 1.38

Z has some makin' up to do -- to Lou, and to the rest of us for his poor performance last Friday. Yes, I know he had other things on his mind, and my condolences to him on the loss of his grandmother. He probably should have had his start pushed back, especially since Lou has reworked the playoff rotation anyway. In any case, this is an important tuneup for Z. He is 4-1, 2.92 lifetime in 7 appearances (6 starts) vs. the Mets, the last of which was April 21 at Wrigley Field, when he limited NY to four singles and a double in seven innings. He handles the Mets' best hitters pretty well -- Carlos Delgado (.250, 4-for 16); Carlos Beltran (1-for-13), David Wright (2-for-13).

Oliver Perez last faced the Cubs on April 15, 2005 when he was still with the Pirates, so any recent performance comparisons are irrelevant. Lou has been resting regulars, so maybe today would be the day to give D-Lee (2-for-11 vs. Perez) the day off, and definitely the day to play A-Ram (4-for-11), DeRo (3-for-6, 2 doubles) and Jim Edmonds (3-for-8, a HR).

Note that although Perez and Z have thrown essentially the same number of innings, it has taken Perez three more starts to get there.

Today's game is on WCIU and SNY -- but fortunately for those of you outside of Chicago, ESPN has picked up the game so it'll be seen nationally. Also see the MLB.com Mediacenter.

MLB.com Gameday

Baseball-reference.com game preview

As always, you can find all the game threads after this one, including the first pitch thread, on the right sidebar of both the front page and any interior page in the box headed "RECENT STORIES IN GAME THREADS". Today's first pitch thread posts at 6 pm CT, and the overflow comment threads will post at 7 pm, 8 pm and 8:45 pm CT.

Discuss amongst yourselves.