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Cubelievable
What a game, what a series and I’m sorry but the blown save couldn’t have happened to a better player. With two out and two on in the bottom of the ninth with the Cubs down by three, Torres serves up a pitch to Soto that was in his wheel house and he unloaded on it.
Why am I glad it was Torres that blew the game? Because back on September 10th I wrote about Torres talking smack about catching the Cubs, and with his team one out away from taking two out of three from the Cubs in Wrigley Field he BLOWS IT!
But I digress, the more important part of this game is the character the Cubs showed coming from four runs behind to win. The truth be told, this game did not mean much to the Cubs. They were eight behind in the loss column with eleven games to play. Even if the Brewers run the board the Cubs would have to go 3-8 to lose the division.
But in the top of the 12th with Brewers on second and third, the Cub’s pitching and defense, highlighted by the run down at third, gets out of the half inning without any damage. Then in the bottom of the 12th, with two outs and a two and two count on the man everybody is screaming is not a clutch player, Derrek Lee, gets a walk of single scoring Marquis.
And the crowd goes wild…Cubelievable…Cubs Century Is Here!
Brewers Torres Talking Smack About Cubs
On Monday night after blowing a save against the Reds, the Brewers Torres was talking smack about the Cubs, Brewers race. Adam McCalvy’s article for MLB.com quotes Torres as saying, “And the Chicago Cubs, they need to worry, because we’re going to get them. That’s all I can say.”
Now, the Italian in me wants to start betting a million dollars that the Cubs will take the division. And if the Cubs don’t, throw in me parachuting naked into Miller Park, during the first game of the playoffs screaming GO BREWERS, with the Brewer’s logo painted on my chest for good measure. But since I have absolutely no control over the outcome of the situation I will just quietly steam under my collar and hope the the Cub players read this article and use it for locker room material.
Come on Cubs, enough is enough. The Brewers won this afternoon so they are now only four games out. Next Century Is Here – So act like it and start kicking butt again!
Reds Do For Cubs What Cubs Can’t
Looks like the Brewers don’t want to win the division either.
The Brewers lead 1-0 early then the Reds went up 4-1 in the 6th. The Brewers answered back with three in the 7th to tie it. That’s the way it stood until, after plenty of chances, the Red’s finally punch one across the plate to go up 5-4 in the 11th. The Brewers did nothing in the bottom of the 11th so the Reds won 5-4.
With the loss the Brewers stay 4.5 behind the Cubs.
Maybe the Astros will take it!
Cubs In Big Time Trouble
I’m trying to say positive about this season and I definitely won’t blame any curse or voodoo BUT, this team is in trouble. They have lost eight of their last nine and I don’t see a glimmer of the team that started the second half on fire.
The pitching has been steady but with the little run support they have gotten every mistake is being amplified. This game should have been won which makes two games in a row that the Cubs have straight out blown. This is not what a team should be doing in a pennant race!
Sunday you could blame Wood or Cedeno, I don’t care. Bottom line; a game that should have been won was a lost. Today the bags were left loaded in one inning and in another Soto bunted into a double play. Also, in the fourth Soto was on second with two outs. Dempster gets a base hit to left and…Soto is held at third! Ankiel doesn’t pick the ball up cleanly. In fact he runs past the ball and has to back track to get it. It doesn’t matter because Soto is walking back to third with his head down and never sees it. To quote Santo, “…you gotta stay in the game!”
Look, Lou can talk all his, “…we new it wasn’t going to be easy” crap but the bottom line is somebody has to kick these guys in their butts. Their heads are not in the game and they are without a doubt underachieving. I know the Cub players are not happy with losing, but neither are the Pirates. The difference is the Pirates don’t have the talent to be a championship team, the Cubs do.
I’m trying to type slowly to see if I can get an outcome to the Brewers game but the Reds can’t get any timely hitting. The game is in the bottom of the ninth and the it’s tied up 4-4. The last two innings the Reds have had men on base and did nothing. This is what is pissing me off, I’m waiting to see if the fifth place Reds can beat the Brewers so the Cubs don’t lose ground. If the Cubs were talking care of business I wouldn’t be loosing my hair over a Brewers Reds game!
The Cubs magic number is 15 which means if we don’t win again the Brewers have to loose 15 of 18, the Cards have to loose 11 of 18 and the Astros have to loose 10 of 17 for the Cubs to take the division. I’m not laughing either.
Reds Helping Cubs
After taking 2 out of 3 from the Chicago Cubs in Cincinnati, the Reds go into Miller Park and take game one of a three game set with the Brewers with a dramatic come from behind win.
Trailing 4-1 in the top of the eighth, Votto homers to bring the Reds with in two. Then in the top of the ninth the Reds add on three more to take the lead. The Brewers would go one, two, three in the ninth and the Reds would win three of their last four against the top of the NL Central.
It appears the dog days of summer have hit a little late for the Cubs and Brewers as both teams are struggling to put any kind of winning streak together. The Cubs have to take advantage of this parallel rut and turn things around before the Brew Crew does.
The best place to start is in St. Louis, with Dempster going against Lohse it should be a good game. Go Cubs – Next Century Is Here!
Mets Helping Cubs
If this is not a sign that Next Century Is Here, I don’t know what is. The very team, the Mets, that has been apart of the curses and voodoo that is the Cubs of the last 100 years, ala 1969 collapse of the Cubs and surge of the Mets, is doing their part to help the 2008 Cubs. How? They just completed a sweep of the Brewers in Miller Park.
Now the Cubs, with Dempster on the mound, have to come out and salvage a game out of the series with the Astros in Wrigley Field. If they can do that they will go 5.5 up with 22 games to go.
I’m heading off to the game now, so hopefully my big mouth will help a little.
Go Cubs! Next Century Is Here!
No Help From The Bucs
In the top of the thirteenth the Pirates load the bases with no outs. A medium fly out to center, a strikeout and a weak dribbler to the pitcher later and all is still tied going to the bottom of the inning.
The Pirates retire the first batter and then walk Weeks. Problem is walking Weeks is like giving up a double. Sure enough Weeks steals second and one pitch later Hardy hits a single to center and Weeks scores.
Brewers sweep the Bucs and stay 4.5 behind the Cubs. This Brewer’s team is tough and that is exactly why I was so aggravated when the Cubs went soft after taking a 4-0 lead against the Nationals in game one.
Sabathia gets a no decision, but since joining the Brewers he is without a doubt the hottest pitcher in the Majors. In his 10 starts with the Brewer Crew he is 8-0 with a 1.59 ERA. Wow!
The Brewers are off Monday and then have a short two game series against the Cards in St. Louis. I hate when I have to root for the Cardinals, but Go Cards }-:
Cubs Put Fans On Emotional Roller Coaster
I don’t know about anybody else but I am emotionally spent. After giving up sole possession of first place yesterday I was starting to worry about possibly coming out of Milwaukee down by five games and potentially in third place. I know it is still early in the season but the lack timely offense lately has taken the wind out of my sails. Emotion = low.
Then as the game got underway I thought; Marquis has been pitching pretty well lately. If we can win today, even if the Brewers win, we go into Milwaukee tied. Thats what you want; play the teams you are in contention with and hope that your team is the best and comes out on top. Emotion = even.
Florida takes a 5-0 lead. Emotion = low.
Brewers take a 4-1 lead. Emotion = very low.
Cubs put two on the board. Emotion = guarded.
Cubs add 3 more in the next inning to tie it. Emotion = optimistically even.
Florida comes right back with a solo home run and ties it. Emotion = low
Astros put a big crooked 7 up in the top of the 5th against the Brewers. Emotion = high.
Bottom of the 7th Derrek Lee goes yard to tie it. Emotion = like the score even.
Same inning bases load, Little Baby Ruth hits a high deep fly to left field. Since the outfield was playing relatively shallow, it’s a bases clearing double and we go up by three. Emotions – very high.
In Milwaukee, top of the 7th the Stros do it again, adding 3 more and going up 11-5. Emotions = super high.
Ninth inning back in Chicago; Samardzija retires the side as he watched Jim Edmonds stretch out in a horizontal to the ground dive and catches the third out. Samardzija getting his first Major league save smiles and pumps his fist. Emotion = goose bumps very super high.
I start typing in my blog. Emotion = coming down to earth.
As I’m typing, in Milwaukee, Prince Fielder pops out for the final out and the Brewers go down 11-6. The Cubs are in Sole possession of first going into the biggest series of the season. Emotion = guarded high.
Finished my blog and the MLBlog site times out and I get the error page. I sign back in and none of my work was saved? What happened to auto-save? Emotion = frustrated.
Re-enter my blog; maybe it’s better this time. Nobody reads this but me so who cares anyway? Emotion = tired.
End result; Cubs won a big game and took care of business. The series against the Brewers is going to be tough; I’m hoping for a split. I’m a complete certifiable basket case for taking this game, this seriously, this early in the season. Next Century Is Here is looking eerily similar to last century. Emotion = nuts.
Brewers Win – Tie Cubs for First
This is what happens when you don’t take care of business. I team that, a few shorts weeks ago, was sitting 5 back in third place jumps up and takes your thrown.
The Brew Crew was trailing most of the game but came back in their last at bat for the 20th time this season to win. How did they do it? Timely hitting, the Brewers were out hit 14 to 7 but strung them together and got the W. Something the Cubs have been unable to do lately.
Don’t look now but we could be going into Milwaukee looking up at them.
A Little Next Century Karma?
O.k. I asked for a little karma and predicted an Astro win over the Brewers 6-4. Maybe I was off on the number of runs but I was right with the winner and the run differentiation as the Stros edge the Crew 3-1.
The Brew Crew did make it interesting in the top of the ninth with a lead off double by Hart, but after going to third on a fly out, he was left stranded.
I’ve been writing a lot about karma and having a little fun at the expense of the Brewers with this entry but the truth is the Brewers are playing great ball and the Cubs, even with their little two game winning streak, are struggling. If the Cubs don’t find out what is going on with their bats and fine tune the pen a little they may find the Crew looking at us through their rear view mirror.
Let’s hope that’s one thing I write about that doesn’t come true and stick with the fact that Next Century Is Here.
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