The Chicago Cubs are having fun on the road. They scored a total of eight runs in the first four innings on Saturday night as they beat the Houston Astros 8-3 in the second game of the final series of the 2010 season. They improve the record of their current season-ending road trip to 5-1 and they will get a chance to sweep their division arch-rivals Sunday afternoon. Aramis Ramirez produced four runs with a grand slam in the fourth inning. Marlon Byrd also had a three-RBI night. The Cubs offense gave their starter Carlos Zambrano a two-run cushion in the ...
Since the September call-up, the Cubs rookie outfielder Brad Snyder has had the privilege of enjoying two double-RBI games in his first eight major league games. On Thursday afternoon, he reached another level of enjoyment by hitting out first game-winning RBI. His single in the ninth inning generated the winning run for the Chicago Cubs who took the four-game series finale with a 1-0 victory over the San Diego Padres in PETCO Park. With the win, the visitors snapped their two-series losing streak and dimmed the Padres’ chance to make the playoffs. Both teams’ pitching staffs performed creditably, especially for ...
Even though the 2010 season is an absolute chaos for the Chicago Cubs, they get a lot of attention at the end of the calendar year.
They are put in a new mission—spoiling their opponents’ hopes to access to the playoffs.
In the span of the ongoing 10 days, they had faced teams in contention, the San Francisco Giants and the St. Louis Cardinals last week. They opened another series Monday night in the last road trip of the season in San Diego, playing against the NL West second place team, the San Diego Padres who were only half-game behind the Giants.
Alfonso ...
Randy Wells should be happy tonight.
By beating the San Francisco Giants Wednesday night, following his win last week in St. Louis, it is the first time since April that he won two consecutive games. He has been trying hard to turn his unfortunate season around but it took him until the end of the year to do so.
The right-hander (8-13) outdueled the hot Giants starter, Jonathan Sanchez in the Cubs’ 2-0 victory to tie the series at one game apiece in the three-game set.
The Cubs’ first run came in the third inning and it was the game-winning run. Lead-off Kosuke ...
The Cubs just did something Wednesday night they haven’t done in the last 12 years—sweeping the Cardinals in St. Louis.
Homers by Tyler Colvin and Aramis Ramirez and another Carlos Zambrano’s strong outing helped the team to win 7-3 in the three-game series finale.
It has been two nights in a row that the Cubs knocked the top two Cardinals aces out of the game. Last night, it was Adam Wainwright. Tonight, it was Chris Carpenter’s turn.
The first run of the game belonged to the Cubs. Carpenter (15-7) gave up a single to Koyie Hill who stole second and was brought home ...
The Chicago Cubs proved on Tuesday night that Cy Young candidate Adam Wainwright is beatable.
They managed to get five runs off him to set up their second victory in as many nights in Busch Stadium. They beat the St. Louis Cardinals by a final score of 7-2.
At the same time, they prevented Wainwright from becoming the National League pitcher with the most wins this season.
Randy Wells pitched a gem to snap his personal two-game winless streak. He gave up only one run and five hits in eight innings, fanning five Cardinals without issuing a walk. The right-hander (7-13) also contributed ...
Carlos Zambrano continues his hot streak. Before tonight’s contest, he had a 4-0, 1.98 ERA record since his return to the rotation after going through an anger management program in June.
He had another stellar performance tonight, pitching deep into the ninth to blank the Brewers and limit them to three hits and three walks to give the Cubs a 4-0 victory in a three-game series opener in Miller Park.
He contributed offensively; hitting three singles and producing a Cubs’ run in the sixth inning.
The right-hander (8-6) got into trouble in the second inning allowing back-to-back walks to lead-off Prince Fielder and ...
Cubs catcher Geovany Soto’s home run in the bottom of the eighth inning was the game winning run. The Chicago Cubs took game one of the three-game set by beating their NL Central archrivals Houston Astros 5-4 in front of an attendance of 31,647.
When the game was deadlocked at 4-4 in the eighth, Soto sent reliever Wilton Lopez’s two-out 1-0 fastball out of Wrigley Field. The long solo shot is his 17th round-tripper of the season, and his second in two days.
The Astros opened the scoring in the second.
Cubs starter Casey Coleman struggled in the inning and gave up four ...
2:20 pm ET, Friday, Aug. 20 TV: CSN, SPSO
Probable pitchers: Ryan Dempster (11-8, 3.62) vs. Jair Jurrjens (5-4, 3.92)
4:10 pm ET, Saturday, Aug. 21 TV: FOX
Probable pitchers: Tom Gorzelanny (6-7, 3.85) vs. Tommy Hanson (8-8, 3.41)
2:20 pm ET, Sunday, Aug. 22 TV: WGN, FSS
Probable pitchers: Randy Wells (5-11, 4.44) vs. Mike Minor (1-0, 3.75)
2010 season matchups
This is the second series between the two clubs this season. They played against each other in the season-opening series in Atlanta. The Braves took two games out of three with victories of 16-5 and 3-2. The Cubs avoided the sweep by winning the last ...
The San Diego Padres are simply too strong for the Cubs.
The Chicago Cubs could not avoid the sweep by the NL West leaders Thursday afternoon. Once again, their bullpen sank and a careless defensive play in the seventh inning put them down 5-3 in the series finale.
Carlos Zambrano, the Cubs’ starter, did not have a stellar performance. However, he managed to limit the Padres to one run and four hits in six innings. Even though he walked far too many batters—giving six Padres free passes to first base—he got out of his jams, stranding runners one inning after another.
Well...except in ...
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