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After losing a close 2-1 ballgame Thursday night, the Cubs bounced back and got a little bit of revenge on Friday afternoon against the Dodgers. This time it was two runs in the eighth inning that led them to a 2-1 victory which evened up the series at one game each. It was the first time all season long that the Cubs won a game without scoring over three runs!

The team struggled during the first six innings of the game at the plate as once again they could not come up with a big hit to knock in runners. However, once the seventh inning came around, Koyie Hill smashed the first pitch in his at bat over the fence for a solo home run off of Dodgers starter Chad Billingsley. The Cubs would score the winning run later in the inning when Kosuke Fukudome knocked in Chad Fox on a sacrifice fly to center field. It was nice seeing Fukudome step up and get a fly ball with the bases loaded and one out in the inning.

The lone run that the Dodgers offense was able to score came off the bat of Matt Kemp who took Ted Lilly deep in the seventh inning. Kemp’s homerun barely got over the basket in left field but it was just enough to give the Dodgers a 1-0 lead at the time. If you were like me, you were probably thinking oh crap, there is the winning run the way the offense has been swinging the bats. Good thing, I was wrong!

The one run win did not come easy though. The Dodgers would get two runners on base in the bottom of the ninth inning off of closer Kevin Gregg but Gregg got out of the inning when he got Mark Loretta to ground out to shortstop to end the game. Bobby Scales could have ended the game a batter earlier but he bobbled a ground ball to third base which would have been the third out of the inning. It was a close one but the fans were singing “GO CUBS GO” in the end!

AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh