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!
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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?
