Alfonso Soriano hit a two run home run and a rbi single as he led the Chicago Cubs past the visiting Colorado Rockies by the score of 5-4.  With the win, the Cubs have now won six straight games to stay on top of the Central Division standing.

Soriano has really heated up in he month of May as he is up to 12 home runs and 34 rbi in the lead off position.  He is making better contact right now even though he is still swining at almost every pitch it seems like.

Besides Soriano’s three rbi, Geovany Soto and starting pitcher Ryan Dempster both had one rbi in the game.

Speaking of Dempster, he lasted five innings and picked up the win to improve to 7-2 on the season.  Dempster should didn’t have great command of his pitches today as he gave up two home runs and walked four batters.

Michael Wuertz, Neal Cotts, Bob Howry, and Carlos Marmol all pitchd out of the bullpen.  Wuertz, Cotts, and Howry did well, but Marmol gave up a solo home run in the ninth inning even though he picked up his third save of the season.  Things could have been a lot worse for Marmol in the ninth inning except Kosuke Fukudome made a nice jumping catch near the wall on a flyball right beforeScott Podsednik took Marmol deep.

The Cubs will go for their seventh straight win and the four game sweep of the Rockies on Sunday afternoon.  Sean Gallagher will be facing off against Ubaldo Jimenez.

Lol, another come from behind win for the Chicago Cubs as they battled back from a 8-0 deficit to beat the Colorado Rockies by the score of 10-9.  Jim Edmonds, Henry Blanco, and Mark DeRosa came up big in the sixth and seventh innings for the Cubs as they won their fifth straight game.

Edmonds finally did something good at the plate for the Cubs as he went 3-4 with three rbi.  One of Edmonds hits was a solo home run in the sixth inning.  Blanco and DeRosa both had two run home runs in the seventh inning to finally give the Cubs a lead in the game.  Kosuke Fukudome also went 3-2 with a two run home run.

On the mound for the Cubs, starting pitcher Ted Lilly had a dissapointing game as he only lasted eight innings.  Lilly gave up eight hits, seven runs (four earned) on the game.  Lilly should have been better against the Rockies, it was just a bad outing for him.  Jon Lieber came in and pitched  3 2/3 innings and gave up five hits and two more runs.

Scott Eyre, Carlos Marmol, and Kerry Wood finished up the game.  Marmol struckout the side in the eighth inning and then Wood recorded his 13th save of the season.  Eyre recorded the win and is now 2-0.

Another comeback win for the Cubs, lately it has taken them five or six innings to get going but then they explode out of no where.  A win is a win, not matter how you get it I suppose!

The Cubs are playing some good baseball right now, why not buy some Cubs Tickets and watch some Cubs Baseball?  Click here to view StubHub’s inventory for Cubs Tickets.

It seems that not even Jason Marquis‘ mediocre pitching can keep the Cubs down on this homestand. The 8-4 win over the Rockies on Thursday night was the Cubs’ 4th in a row. Marquis gave up 3 runs on 7 hits in 5 plus innings but did not factor into the decision. The Cubs got the first 2 runs on an RBI double by Aramis Ramirez in the 1st and a solo homer from Derrek Lee in the 3rd. Up 3-1 in the 6th, Marquis loaded the bases and then was pulled. Recently recalled Neal Cotts gave up the game tying single and then the Rockies got the lead off Michael Wuertz in the 7th.

The Cubs quickly responded with 2 of their own in the bottom half when Alfonso Soriano scored on an error and Geovany Soto drove in Ryan Theriot with a sac fly. Micah Hoffpauir got his first major league RBI in the bottom of the 8th and then Soriano picked up a 2 run single for more insurance. Carlos Marmol and Kerry Wood pitched scoreless innings of relief to close it down. The Cubs go for 5 straight at Wrigley on Friday afternoon; 1:20 PM CT.

Ok, this move is a little confusing I think.  The Chicago Cubs have sent down Jose Ascanio to Triple-A Iowa and called up Neal Cotts.  Reports are saying that Lou Piniella doesn’t fully trust Scott Eyre down in the bullpen and wanted to get another lefty in there.

Ok, so Ascanio throws the ball very well when given the chance and he still gets sent down for a player who has struggled in the past with the big league team?  I don’t quite understand the move, but half the time us Cubs fans don’t know what Hendry and company are really thinking.

What do you think of this move?

Ok yeah, the Cubs offense sucked up until the ninth inning, but what an exciting win for the Cubs as they were able to come back and tie the game in the ninth, and then go on to win in the tenth inning.  Good teams find ways to win, and that is exactly what the Cubs did against the Dodgers in their 2-1 victory on Wednesday night.

In the ninth inning you could tell that Dodgers closer Takashi Saito was having control issues right away as he walked Ryan Theriot to lead off the inning.  It was Saito’s first action in a week and he clearly need some work in between starts.  The Cubs were able to get the bases loaded and then Geovany Soto hit a sacrafice fly to right field to tie the game.

Onto the tenth inning when Mike Fontenot lhit double to the left center gap with one out in the inning.  Alfonso Soriano then stepped up and delivered the game winning hit as he his a curve ball to left field that scored Fontenot from second.  Way to step up like the player you really are Soriano.

Carlos Zambrano was a bit wild tonight as he did walk four batters but give him some credit for lasting eight innings and keeping the Cubs in the game.  Jose Ascanio continues to impress be as he pitched another scoreless inning.  Bob Howry pitched the tenth inning and ended up picking up the win for the Cubs.

The Cubs continue to play great baseball at Wrigley Field and hopefully they will continue doing it as the Colorado Rockies are coming into town for a four game series.

Wahoo, those last three innings of the game was pretty exciting as the Chicago Cubs scored three runs in the seventh inning and then held on to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 3-1.  The Cubs have now won two games in a row and improved their record to 31-21 on the season.

It sure was great watching Sean Gallagher pitch a good game.  Gallagher pitched seven innings and only allowed four hits and one run.  Great outing for Gallagher who has to stay in the rotation for atleast two more games in my opinion.  Hell, let him stay in the rotation for good.

Carlos Marmol worked out of a bases loaded jam in the eighth inning without giving up a run, and then Kerry Wood shut down the Dodgers in the ninth to pick up his 12th save of the season.  I still worry that the Cubs are using Marmol a little bit too much.

Mike Fontenot, Aramis Ramirez, and Kosuke Fukudome all had one rbi in the game.  Had the Cubs got some bunts down that they messed up on, it probably would have been a 5-1 or 6-1 game in my opinion.  Tomorrow, they are going to be getting some practice bunting the ball lol.

The Cubs and Dodgers will play again on Wednesday night as the Cubs go for the three game sweep.  Carlos Zambrano will take the mound for the Cubs as he tries to improve his record to 8-1 on the season.

GO CUBS GO!

Sorry for no updates the last four days as we had some database problems within our backend software over the weekend.  Hopefully everything is fixed and we can get back to what we love doing and that is blogging about the Chicago Cubs.

Over the weekend the Cubs dropped two out of three games to the Pittsburgh Pirates.  I am sure that everyone has already seen the highlights etc so I won’t get into much detail.  Yeah, it would have been a winning series had Alfonso Soriano caught the ball to end the game on Sunday.  Errors happen to everybody, it just hit Soriano had a bad time.

Atleast the Cubs got back on track with a 3-1 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday.  Ryan Dempster picked up his sixth win of the season.  How many people would have thought Dempster would already have six wins on the season?  I definately didn’t think so.

The Cubs and Dodgers will play again tonight (Tuesday) with first pitch being at 6:05 Central time from Wrigley Field.  Sean Gallagher will get the start for the Cubs.

The Chicago Cubs lost to the Houston Astros 5-3 on Wednesday night as the Cubs struggled at the plate.  With the 5-3 loss, the Cubs dropped two of three to the Astros and are now sitting at 28-19 on the season.

Sean Gallagher took the loss and is now 1-1 on the season.  He gave up eight hits and five runs over 4 2/3 innings.  The Astros big blast came in the third inning when Carlos Lee took a high fastball and crushed it into the left field bleachers for a three run home run.  That knocked Gallagher out of the game for good.

Michael Wuertz also had some trouble as he came in after Gallagher left.  Wuertz only recorded one out and walked two batters.  Scott Eyre, Jon Lieber, and Bob Howry all pitched a scoreless inning in relief so atleast that was one bright spot for the Cubs on Wednesday night.

At the plate for the Cubs, Derrek Lee had a two run home run in the first inning and then Geovany Soto had a rbi double later in the inning.  After the first inning, the Cubs only had two hits in the game.  Micah Hoffpauir did have two hits in the game as he notched his first career hit in the first inning and later scored on the Soto double.

The Cubs will now have an off day on Thursday and then start up a series on Friday with the Pittsburgh Pirates.  The Cubs really need to sweep the Pirates to stay on top of the Central Division.

Cubs Blog

Ryan Dempster gave up a grand slam to Hunter Pence and the Houston Astros went on to beat the Chicago Cubs 4-2 on Tuesday night.  That one pitch that barely got over the fence as the only mistake for Dempster on the mound as he pitched six innings.  Dempster is now 5-2 on the season.

One nice things to see after Dempster was taken out of the game was watching Jose Ascanio throw two scoreless innings.  He did have two walks, but showed off his lively arm and how well he can pitch out of the bullepn.  If you hadn’t heard, Ascanio was called up after Chad Fox was moved to the disabled list.

Aramis Ramirez was the only Cubs player to record a rbi in the game.  Ramirez hit a moon shot in the fourth inning for a two run home run.  Derrek Lee had three hits while Mark DeRosa had two hits.  It will be interesting to see if Lee sits tomorrow like Lou Piniella would like do even though Lee wants to play.  One player that I thnk could use another day off is Kosuke Fukudome as he went 0-4 on the night.

The Cubs will try to win the series when they play the Astros on Wednesday.  It will be Sean Gallagher going against Shawn Chacon.

The Chicago Cubs beat the Houston Astros 7-2 behind a three run inside the park home run by Geovany Soto.  Yeah, you are reading that right lol!  Soto hit a inside the park home run haha.  Well it really should have been called a home run in the first place, but the umpires blew the call.  Soto hustled around the bases however and was easily safe before the ball got to home plate.

Soto finished the game with three rbi while Aramis Ramirez had two rbi.  Both of Ramirez’s rbi came in the ninth inning when he hit a two run home run.  Derrek Lee and Ryan Theriot both had rbi singles in the game as well.

Ted Lilly improved to 5-4 on the season as he picked up the win.  Lilly only tossed 5 1/3 innings but it was enough to get his figth victory of the season.  Jon Lieber came in and pitched  1 2/3 innings of relief without giving up a run.  Michael Wuertz then came in the game and he allowed two quick hits and was quickly pulled.  Carlos Marmol came in to get the Cubs out of the jam and then Bob Howry threw the ninth inning without giving up a hit while striking out two batters.

Great win for the Cubs as they are now 3.5 games on the Astros in the division.