The Cubs continue to play good baseball for the most part and once again won another series as they beat the Washington Nationals 4-2 tonight.  With the win, the Cubs won three of four games in the nations capital and moved within 5 games of the Milwaukee Brewers for the lead in the Central Division.

Sean Marshall started for the Cubs and was able to go 5.1 innings while allowing two earned runs.  He was a bit wild with the walks as he gave out four free passes and five hits.  Luckily for Marshall and the Cubs, the Nationals were able to do much except for a triple by Dimitri Young and a sac fly by Austin Kearns in the sixth inning.

Will Ohman, Michael Wuertz, Carlos Marmol, and Bob Howry shut down the Nationals the rest of the game.  The Nationals were only able to get two hits off Marmol while they were shut out by the other three pitchers.

Daryle Ward who filled in for Derrek Lee at first base went 2-4 with two RBI’s.  Once Lee starts to serve his suspension, hopefully Ward will be able to do the same thing every night and play good defenese as well.

Mike Fontenot and Jacque Jones also had a pretty good night at the plate. Fontenot went 3-5 and an RBI while Jones went 2-4.  It was really nice to see Jacque get a couple basehits early in the ballgame.  We can only hope that it gives him a little confidence at the plate with Piniella decides to play him.

The Cubs will now travel to Pittsburgh to begin a three game series with the Pirates.  These three games are huge as the Brewers will now be taking on the Nationals.  The Brewers didn’t play good in Pittsburgh so I expect them to do pretty good against the Nationals.  Cubs need to atleast take 2 of 3 against the Pirates if not sweep them!

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The Cubs continue their good play today as they swept the Colorado Rockies with a 6-4 win today.  That is now the Cubs sixth win in a row and their highest winning streak of the season.  Now if we can just get those pesky Brewers to lose!  Oh yeah, they are coming to Wrigley for a three game series starting Friday.  HUGE series and the Cubs need to go atleast 2 out of 3 against the Brew Crew.

Mark DeRosa and Mike Fontenot both had homeruns for the Cubbies as they got out to a big lead early in the ballgame.  DeRosa finished the game with three RBI’s and Fontonet had one.  Angel Pagan and Ryan Theriot also chipped in with one RBI each.

Carlos Zambrano picked up his ninth win on the season.  Carlos has really came on in the last 6 ballgames and is pitching like the pitcher he really is.  Zambrano threw six innings allowing five hits and two earned runs.  He did have eight strikeouts and three walks also.

Billy Petrick made his Major League Debut today throwing 1.2 innings. He had a 1-2-3 inning in the seventh with two strikeouts in the inning.  He was clocked at 97 in the inning as well.  He did run into some trouble in the top of the eight inning as Garrett Atkins hit a two run homer off of him.  Will Ohman then came in and got the final out of the inning.  Carlos Marmol pitched a great inning in the ninth to finish off the Rockies.

GO CUBS GO!

The Cubs continued their winning ways tonight as they beat the Colorado Rockies 8-5 at Wrigley Field.  The Cubs are still 7.5 games behind the Milwaukee Brewers as they beat the Astros tonight but as long as the Cubs keep on winning good things will happen for them.

The Cubs first scored in the first inning when Alfonso Soriano scored on a double by Aramis Ramirez.  Cliff Floyd then smoked a two-run homerun to right field to give the Cubs a 3-0 lead.  Mike Fontenot, Koyie Hill, Mark DeRosa, and Felix Pie all had RBI’s for the Cubs as well.  I love seeing an offensive performace like this where it is more then one playing producing for the team.

Ted Lilly picked up his sixth win on the season as he went 6 innings.  He did give up four earned runs on five walks and five strikeouts.  I don’t like those walks and normally your team is going to lose when your starting pitchers allows five walks but tonight the Cubs offense helped out the pitchers.

Michael Wuertz, Carlos Marmol, and Will Ohman pitched the final three innings for the Cubs.  Ohman picked up his first career save as he got the last out in the ninth inning when he got Todd Helton to popup to short.

The Cubs have now won five straight and will be going for the sweep tomorrow afternoon as it will be Jason Hirsh (3-6) facing off against Carlos Zambrano (8-6).  I look for Zambrano to have a very good game tomorrow and the Cubs completing this three game sweep.

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What a great series for the Chicago Cubs this weekend as they swept the South Side Rivals in a three game series.  Great starting pitching and great bullpen pitching equals wins and that is what this series was all about.

Sean Marshall threw 6 scoreless innings for the Cubs and only gave up five hits.  He had three strikeouts and only one walk so that was good as well.  Carlos Marmol, Will Ohman, and Bob Howry completed the last 3 innings of the ballgame.  Howry picked up another save as he is filling in for Ryan Dempster who is still taking a few games off to hear a injury.

Alfonso Soriano stayed hot as he hit his 15th homerun of the season in the seventh inning.  We need Derrek Lee and Aramis Ramirez to start hitting some bombs and this team can really start putting up the runs.  It is nice to see them getting basehits no doubt, but we are going to need more homeruns for Lee to really help out the team.

The Cubs will now start a series with the Colorado Rockies Monday night at Wrigley Field.  The Rockies were just one-hit in Toronto and were also swept in the three game series.  Lets get another series win and hopefully a sweep as we make a push towards the Milwaukee Brewers!

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