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CHC --- 37 (Maddux v MIL Davis)
SFG 1.0 35 (Lowry @ FLA Willis)
SDP 2.0 37 (Lawrence @ NYM Leiter)
FLA 5.0 39 (Willis v SFG Lowry)

I’ve seen this somewhere before. The rookie pitching sure didn’t work out for the Giants last night.

Rumor has it, the Cubs are actually done with the Brewers after this game. They’ve played them 14 times after the all star break. This year’s schedule has sucked.

I could not believe they let the rain delay go for an hour and then came back after it last night. It was a 12-4 game in the bottom of the 7th, no realistic chance of the Brewers coming back and a day game the next day. I don’t know understand the point of hanging around that long to finish it.

The upside was Rusch got a save in 13-4 game. Kinda surprised me that he’d be okay to go after a rain delay and that Dusty wouldn’t try to get more people in rather than letting Glendon get the three inning save, but yay for pointless stats.

When they’re behind, the Brewers bullpen hasn’t been very good. I figure they’ll use Kolb and Viscano today regardless of the score, because they may not work again this month if Yost waits for a lead to use them.

In fact, because of Rusch’s work, the Cubs bullpen is pretty rested for no off days.

Rusch: 0 days off
Mercker: 1 day off
Dempster: 1 day off
Leicester: 2 days off
Farnsworth: 2 days off
Hawkins: 3 days off
Remlinger: 3 days off

We were having a discussion about who would’ve been better if both had a full season, A-Ram or Adrian Beltre. Looking at the numbers, it’s not as close as we thought. And third base is packed.

              AVG  OBP  SLG VORP/G

Mora    BAL  .348 .425 .594 0.633

Beltre  LAD  .333 .380 .643 0.599

Rolen   STL  .329 .414 .623 0.598

A-Ram   CHC  .314 .362 .571 0.426

Chavez  OAK  .275 .400 .524 0.426

A-Rod   NYA  .280 .366 .512 0.380

Wasn’t this a dead position a few years ago? That’s pretty funny, A-Rod goes from being the best SS to the sixth best 3B. I guess we know which is the real position of real people. (Sorry Nomar.)