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Yea, I just made my return in the past week. At the right time though with the way we're playing.
Have you seen how Stubbs has been doing so far this year? Maybe he can be a late season bat addition.
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Yea, I just made my return in the past week. At the right time though with the way we're playing.
Have you seen how Stubbs has been doing so far this year? Maybe he can be a late season bat addition.
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Cardinals are playing like complete #+*% this month
As of right now I have no problem with Thursten leading off, we need to pull our head out of our %!$ quick
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I am loving Houston right nowOriginally Posted by CP1708
First the Lakers, now the Cubs........I'm really not liking Houston right now.
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[h1]Cubs recall reliever Chad Fox, Derek Lee out of tonight's lineup[/h1] [h3][/h3]
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May 6, 2009
BY GORDON WITTENMYER Staff Reporter
HOUSTON -- The Cubs recalled right-handed reliever Chad Fox today and optioned right-hander Jeff Samardzija back to Class AAA Iowa.
Fox, 38, was 1-0 with two saves and a 1.59 ERA in 11 appearances at Iowa.
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Derrek Lee is out of the lineup for tonight's game against the Astros because of a flareup of the bulging disk in his neck.
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Derrek Lee is out of the lineup for tonight's game against the Astros because of a flareup of the bulging disk in his neck that sidelined him during the Cubs' last road trip.
Just how serious is thisinjury?
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Hardy!
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Reed %%@**%+#+%@$% Johnson!!!
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Braun!!!
This game is over. They should just call it now.
This game is over. They should just call it now.
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Jesus Christ.
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Glad to see Bronson showed up tonight.
it's not over yet Parra isntany good either.
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20 runs?
arstyle27
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Hope Harden can hold on to the early 4 run lead.
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Come on Mac, were down 9 runs and Parra cant find the plate and he hits into a dp on a pitch that wasnt even a strike
Dammit BP this bum is trying to let us back in the game.
Bases loaded again...... and nothing.
Dammit BP this bum is trying to let us back in the game.
Bases loaded again...... and nothing.
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Lou is really starting to annoy me with how long he's leaving the starting pitchers out there, I didn't know dusty baker was managing the team again
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Brewers
Hopefully i get some tickets when they play this Cubs this week.
Hopefully i get some tickets when they play this Cubs this week.
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W!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FInally off the schnide.............Albert goes 4-4 with another dinger and the cardinals end the loosing streak. Hopefully we can get this little 2 gameseries from the pirates and dont split again.
The NL Central is looking pretty scary this year. Everybody seems to want to play this year for some reason.
FInally off the schnide.............Albert goes 4-4 with another dinger and the cardinals end the loosing streak. Hopefully we can get this little 2 gameseries from the pirates and dont split again.
The NL Central is looking pretty scary this year. Everybody seems to want to play this year for some reason.
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Not really, it's just a 3 team race. Cincy and Pittsburgh had good starts but already are fading.
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I knew thsi was going to happen eventually. Look at KC. Our division is filled with scrappy young talent with lots of potential to do some damage.Problem is, this is still one of the longest regular seasons in all of pro sports. A marathon indeed. It's all about who can outlast the other, and thatdamn sprint towards the end of the year.
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???? How is Cincy fading? The most we've been over this year is 3 games. We have the best pitching in the division as well. We'll hang around for thewhole year.
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I thought I was the only one! I was at the game yesterday begging for him to take out Marshall before the 7th, he leaves him in and were +%##%%!He should have taken Harden out today before the 8th even started! and BTW that HR that berkman hit was a ****+@% joke, that pitch was tailing away from himand all he did was poke out the bat and it left the yard. Some of these damn ballparks need regulating.
arstyle27
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Always nice to take the first game of a roadie.
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Wrong!
As crazy as it sounds, Pittsburgh has the best pitching in the division, with St. Louis behind them, nice try though
[h3]Duncan, Pujols end three-game slide[/h3]Outfielder hits two-run triple; first baseman has four hits
By Matthew Leach / MLB.com
05/07/09 1:16 AM ET
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ST. LOUIS -- One night is not enough to erase long-held perceptions, but it's at least enough to get started.
Chris Duncan, considered in some quarters a slow-footed, all-or-nothing slugger who needs a platoon partner, betrayed all three of those pieces of conventional wisdom on Wednesday night in the Cardinals' 4-2 win over the Pirates.
The left fielder drilled a two-run triple to right field against Zach Duke for the decisive hit in a three-run fourth inning. It was only the fifth triple of his Major League career, and his first against a left-handed pitcher.
"I hit it really good," Duncan said. "I didn't crush it, but I hit it on the good part of the bat, and I thought it might have a chance."
Duncan finished the night hitting .281 and slugging .500 against left-handed pitchers. That's a drastic improvement for a player who entered the season with a lifetime .196 batting average against same-side pitchers. And it's been critical, because he's had to face them quite a bit. With only four outfielders on the roster, and three of them lefties, manager Tony La Russa hasn't been able to do much platooning with his flycatchers.
Not that he'd want to. La Russa always believed Duncan could and would hit lefties.
"It's a matter of him being healthy like he was when he first got here," La Russa said. "When he first got here, he used to hit home runs against left-handers. He hasn't been healthy for two years. What he did in '06 and the first half of '07, that's what he's capable of doing."
Even then, though, Duncan didn't do this. In his breakout 2006 season, he went 8-for-47 (.170) against left-handers with three extra-base hits. He already has more hits and as many extra-base hits in 2009.
"I think I just have more confidence from playing against them more and having some success early on," he said. "I think it's given me more confidence. I don't, as much, think to myself, 'Oh no, it's a lefty.' It's just, hey, I'm hitting, I'm taking an at-bat. In my mind it's irrelevant whether he's left-handed or right-handed. Whereas, before, I might really, go, 'Oh no, it's a left-hander.'"
Albert Pujols had four hits in four at-bats, scored twice and cranked his 11th home run for St. Louis, which ended a three-game losing streak. Pujols' single started the fourth-inning rally. Ryan Ludwick followed with a walk, and Duncan lined a triple into right field to break a 1-1 tie. Khalil Greene's sacrifice fly made it 4-1 for the home team.
For Duncan, the triple marked a continuation of a fine season overall, not just against left-handers. He's hitting for average (.284), getting on base (.386) and driving in runs (16 in 26 games) despite a relatively low home run total by his standards (three).
"I feel really good," he said. "I feel like I'm taking good at-bats with guys in scoring position. I wish I was hitting the ball out of the park more, but that's not something that I can force. When I get guys on base, I'm just trying to really bear down and take good at-bats, and I feel I've done a good job."
The win made it a glass-half-full night for rookie starter Mitchell Boggs, who deserved credit for pitching out of trouble and blame for getting himself into it.
Boggs issued five walks in 4 1/3 innings, and fewer than half of his 85 pitches were strikes. He struck out four and held Pittsburgh to two runs, but it's telling that La Russa went to the bullpen in the fifth inning with Boggs two outs away from being credited with the win.
When Nate McLouth doubled to cut the St. Louis lead to two runs in the fifth, Boggs was lifted. The Cardinals' bullpen took it from there, with five relievers combining to get the last 14 outs. Ryan Franklin finished it off for his eighth save in as many chances.
St. Louis remained two games ahead of second-place Milwaukee in the National League Central. The Cardinals' 18-10 record is second best in the NL.
Matthew Leach is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
About damn time we win a game and Pujols going 4-4 was. As mentioned up above, this is a marathon.......
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Pujols went nuts last night!!! So many home runs so fast!!
The Cubs are getting hot, 5 out of the last 6. Nice to see them turning things around.
The Cubs are getting hot, 5 out of the last 6. Nice to see them turning things around.
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Hey FB before last night we had the best era in all of baseball at 3.61, well ahead of anyone else.. 15 runs will jack it up. and our overall staff, bullpenincluded > than any other team in the central.
