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Cubs Lose Four In A Row
Buehrle was spot on, he didn’t go eight but he did look great going seven. I hate when I’m right. Well actually I wasn’t completely right. Marshall looked pretty good today. But even with his pretty good, Thome’s bomb in the eighth with a man on and Buehrle’s recently typical outing with the Sox’s unbelievable bullpen, there was no way the Cubs were going to pull this one out. End result, Cubs go down four in a row for the first time all season and lose eight of their last twelve.
To say we miss Soriano, Zambrano and Johnson would be a gross understatement. With that said and looking at the schedule I think it’s a must that we go seven and six over the next four series before the All-Star break. The way I see it we need to split the series in San Francisco, take at least one from the Cardinals in St. Louis, then take two of three in the next two home series’ against the Reds and Giants respectively. If we can do this we will have gone through a mini-slump (which even the best teams have to go through) of eleven and fourteen in our last twenty-five and still gone into All-Star break with a 56-39 record. Of course depending on what the Cards and Brewers do we should be two to three games up. So, more than half the season done, our two big boys back and we’ll be prime to make a run for the playoffs.
First things first, we head to San Francisco; we got Lilly who has been looking good of late and they got Zito who got roughed up his last time out. Let’s turn this thing around.
It hasn’t been a 100 years for nothing, this winning a World Series thing is hard work.
Cubs Fall Short in Game 2 at Cellular
What can you say, sometimes you just get out played. It was a great game I just didn’t like the outcome. In fact I felt pretty good watching the game. Other than the first inning Gallagher looked pretty good, and as far as Lee and Ramirez getting the bats going, it looks like Lee was listening. Lee went five for five and just missed a game tying home run in the ninth by about four feet. The problem today was timely hitting. We had twelve hits, 3 walks and only scored five runs.
Now to compound our little problem we go into tomorrow with a three game losing streak under our belt and Sean Marshall starting, and if you’ve read my prior blog you know that I’m not big on Marshall. The Sox have Buehrle starting and he has not given up more than two earned runs in any of his last four starts. In fact he only gave up two earned runs in one of those starts and only one in each of the other three. Another note; he went eight innings in all of the four starts. So we have to somehow find a way to get enough runs off Buerhle and the best bullpen in baseball in order to overcome the runs the Sox will get of one of the worst starters in baseball.
It’s going to be tough to avoid the first four game losing streak of the year. Come on All Star break…we could use the rest.
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