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Call it unlucky 13.
Call it what you want. Jason Marquis has had three starts to get his 13th win of the season, and in each start has failed to do so.
Saturday night was a tough one to swallow for the right-hander. Coming into the game when facing former teams in 2009, Marquis has gone 4-1, defeating the Cubs at Wrigley, the Cardinals in St. Louis and at home, and the Braves in Atlanta. His lone defeat came at home against the Braves in July.
While Marquis battled, he never had his best stuff. He walked a season ...
The Chicago Cubs' TV color man, Bob Brenly, was uncharacteristically blunt on Saturday night when he said: “What will it take to get these guys to start running hard?”
Brenly was referring to a play that occurred in the sixth inning against the Colorado Rockies, when Ryan Theriot barely scored ahead of Milton Bradley’s attempt to stretch a single into a double.
It was an important play at the time, since Theriot’s run gave the Cubs a 5-4 lead.
But it could have just as well applied to any number of instances this season, especially recently.
Alfonso Soriano has been running at less ...
The only statistic that's been impressive for the Chicago Cubs this year has been the list of players to get hurt.
On Friday night, which marked the beginning of an important series in Colorado against a Rockies team the Cubs are currently chasing in the Wild Card standings, the Cubs lost their ace after a handful of warmup pitches before the game ever started.
Carlos Zambrano left his previous start in Florida with a stiff back, and the Cubs had hoped he was simply suffering from dehydration issues; it was in the upper 90s with high humidity when he threw against the ...
The only statistic that's been impressive for the Chicago Cubs this year has been the list of players to get hurt.
On Friday night, which marked the beginning of an important series in Colorado against a Rockies team the Cubs are currently chasing in the Wild Card standings, the Cubs lost their ace after a handful of warmup pitches before the game ever started.
Carlos Zambrano left his previous start in Florida with a stiff back, and the Cubs had hoped he was simply suffering from dehydration issues; it was in the upper 90s with high humidity when he threw against the ...
Much has been said and written in recent days about the Cubs' chances of claiming one of an assortment of available players.
Yet as much as they do need hitting help (and yes, pitching too, now that Big Z’s back is aching again), the vast majority of players available at this time of year either have huge salary liabilities, or they are just plain bad.
Take, for example, Jason Giambi.
Released by the Oakland A’s on Friday, there has been some talk of the Cubs acquiring him to be a left-handed bat off the bench.
But at the time Giambi was shown the ...
According to ESPNChicago.com, Cubs ace Carlos Zambrano will be heading to the 15-day DL. He has been bothered by back stiffness. Zambrano was lifted from his start in last night's game against the Rockies.
This will likely come as a big blow to the Cubs. They're already missing another starter in All-Star Ted Lilly. It is still unclear who will take Zambrano's spot in the rotation.
Just as it seemed like the Cubs were getting everyone back, another Cub goes down—catcher Geovany Soto was activated from the DL yesterday.
Zambrano has put up good numbers this season. He was 7-5 with a 3.35 ...
Welcome home, Rockies.
After battling it out over the course of 10 games on the road, the Colorado Rockies returned home to Coors Field for an important series with the Cubs chock full of playoff implications.
The Chicago Cubs are in the thick of the N.L. Central race, swapping positions on what seems like a daily basis with the surging St. Louis Cardinals. Despite having their eyes set on the division title, the Cubs also know that making up ground in the wild card race is hugely significant.
The Rockies strolled onto the field and played with a swagger and confidence that ...
Since the beginning of the season, the NL Central has been the tightest overall division race in all of baseball. Currently, four teams are within five games of first place, and as recently as June 28, all six teams were within that same striking distance of the division title.
With approximately two months to go in the regular season, we are not much closer now to determining the division winner than we were back in April. As a Cubs fan, I want to know whether I should be setting myself up for a September or October disappointment this season. Thus, I ...
On Friday night at Coors field, two of the hottest teams in the National League will face each other to kick off a very critical four game series.
Carlos Zambrano (7-4, 3.35 ERA) and the Chicago Cubs will travel to the Rocky Mountains to challenge Ubaldo Jimenez (8-9, 3.76 ERA) and the Colorado Rockies.
Since firing their former manager Clint Hurdle, the Rockies (59-49) have burst on to the scene as one of the elite teams in the NL West, and have challenged division foe's Los Angeles and San Francisco for play-off position.
The Cubs (57-49) have emerged from the All-Star break as ...
Long-time readers of this blog know I'm a baseball fan, probably more than anything else. Give me a notebook and a camera, and you can get me to watch and root for about anyone, anywhere.
In the last few weeks alone, I've been to numerous cities, countries, and even to the South Side to root for the White Sox—some would say that's a whole 'nother world. Okay, I'd actually lost a bet on that one, but still, if you're not playing the Cubs, I generally wish you and your team well.
But someone forwarded something to me recently that left me a ...
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