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Cubs beat the Brewers once again

Yeah baby!  The Cubs beat down the Brewers once again and are now four games up on the brew crew in the division.  It was a 7-2 beating of the Brewers on Wednesday night for the Cubs that have them in position to sweep on Thursday.  And yeah, I like their chances to complete the sweep with Rich Harden taking the mound.

The Cubs got a great pitching performance from Ryan Dempster who threw seven innings and only allowed five hits and only one run.  Dempster is now 12-4 on the year and has been throwing the ball very well.  Chad Gaudin pitched a scoreless eighth inning and then Neal Cotts pitched the ninth and gave up a solo home run to Prince Fielder.  The run didn’t mean anything however as the Cubs had a huge lead.

Alfonso Soriano was a monster at the plate for the Cubs as he was on base five times and collected three singles in the game.  Ryan Theriot had a great game as well as he finished 3-3 with three rbi.  Derrek Lee, Reed Johnson, and Mark Derosa all had one rbi each in the game as well.

Now lets root for another Cubs victory on Thursday afternoon as Rich Harden takes the mound.  Expect Sean Marshall to come into the game if Harden has any troubles.

GO CUBS GO!

Cubs hammer Sheets and the Brewers for 7-1 win

It was another great game for the Cubs offense as they hammered Milwaukee Brewers starting pitcher Ben Sheets and went on to beat the Brew Crew by the score of 7-1.  The Cubs offense had 15 hits and scored seven runs while the Brewers struggled against Cubs ace Carlos Zambrano and did not score a run until the ninth inning.

Every Cubs batter had atleast one hit as everyone contributed on Tuesday night.  The team had seven straight hits to open the sixth inning and they blew the game open by sending ten batters to the plate and scoring five runs in the inning.

Kosuke Fukdome and Mark DeRosa led the team with two rbi each.  Aramis Ramirez went 4-5 with three doubles and also had one rbi.  Alfonso Soriano and Carlos Zambrano had the other two rbi for the team.  It was awesome to see so much production out of the lineup.  A-Ram was locked in at the plate all night long and had some great swings which was nice to see as well.

Big Z threw eight scoreless innings while striking out a season high nine batters to get the win.  Zambrano is now 12-4 on the year with a 2.80 era.  Big Z did show some emotion in the game when he popped up a sac bunt attempt and then broke the bat over his leg.  Atleast he wasn’t getting to hot headed out there on the mound.

Jeff Samardzija came in and pitched the ninth inning and gave up one run.  He was mostly throwing fastballs and just letting the Brewers hit it.  I don’t have a problem with that one run scoring because the Cubs had such a big lead and with a big lead all you can ask the pitcher to do was throw strikes and that was what he was doing.

The Cubs are now up three games on the Brewers and and four games on the Cardinals in the division.  Let’s all sit back and hopefully watch another Cubs victory over the Brewers on Wednesday night!

Cubs take game one in Milwaukee 6-4

Now that is the way to kick off an exciting four game series with the Milwaukee Brewers!  The Cubs came away with a 6-4 victory on Monday night and if the next three games are as exciting, we are going to be in for one great series!  Once again there were plenty of Cubs fans up at Miller Park to root on the team and that is always great to see.

The Cubs got to Brewers starter CC Sabathia in the first inning when Alfonso Soriano missed a home run by two feet and led the game off with a double.  He later scored on a rbi single by Derrek Lee to put the Cubs on top 1-0.  In the third inning, Soriano smoked a solo home run about 30 ft farther then his lead off double.  With the score at 2-0 the Cubs did not score again until the seventh inning when Lee grounded into a fielders choice and Ronny Cedeno scored.  The Brewers should have got out of the inning but Rickie Weeks throw to first base was wild.  Reed Johnson had a nice break up slide that forced Weeks to make the bad throw.

Things got really exciting in the ninth inning with the game tied at 4-4.  Lee added another rbi on a double that scored Soriano and moved Mike Fontenot to third base.  Fontenot then scored on a infield single by Mark DeRosa to make it 6-4 Cubs.  The offense came through when they needed to and that is what they are going to have to do this entire series if the Cubs want to extend their lead over the Brewers.

On the mound it was Ted Lilly starting the game and throwing six innings while giving up seven hits and three runs.  Lilly gave up back to back solo home runs in the sixth inning to J.J. Hardy and Ryan Braun.  Those two pitches were pretty much his only mistakes of the game.  Bob Howry once again gave a run on a solo home run to Russell Branyon.  Howry is stinking it up right now out of the bullpen.  Chad Gaudin ended up picking up the win as the threw the eighth inning.  Carlos Marmol was electric in the ninth inning as he got Gabe Kapler to fly out to the warning track to end the game.  Marmol picked up his fifth save of the season in the game.

Now the Cubs will send Carlos Zambrano to the mound against Ben Sheets of the Brewers.  It should be a classic pitchers duel and hopefully Big Z will be on top of his game!

Cubs take final game against the Marlins 9-6

On Sunday the Cubs came back from a 5-0 deficit to defeat the Florida Marlins by the score of 9-6.  Most of you were probably thinking “oh crap here we go again” when the Marlins got up 5-0 behind two home runs from Mike Jacobs.  However, the Cubs kept battling back and the bullpen held on for the victory.

Mike Fontenot had a big three run double that proved to be the game winning hit in the seventh inning.  Alfonso Soriano also connected on a three run home run that tied the game at 5-5.  Derrek Lee tacked on a solo home run as well.  That is the kind of offense that we seen in the first half.  Hopefully Sunday’s game is the first of many where we see the Cubs bats really heat up.

How about Jeff Samardzija throwing two scoreless innings and recording three strikeouts to pick up the save?  Good outing by Samardzija as he was able to blow people away with the fastball pretty much.  If he can establish that off speed pitch, he could be a good one.  However if he relies on the fastball too much, he is going to get hit hard once the hitters realize he is throwing 80% fastballs.

So now the Cubs are up one game on the Milwaukee Brewers as they take the short drive up to Milwaukee to start a huge four game series on Monday night.  Let’s all hope the hot bats carry over from Sunday and the pitching holds up for the Cubs to kick off the series with a victory!