SFG --- 36 OFF CHC 0.5 39 Zambrano vs MIL Sheets SDP 2.5 39 Peavy @ NYM Heilman FLA 5.0 40 OFF
Yay collective NL West on the East Coast scheduling. It’s nice when the Cubs are the late game.
Okay road trip, nothing much accomplished. Should’ve won at least one more game, but at least the Cubs have got the chance to tie it back up tonight.
The Saturday game is now the second game LaTroy benefited from losing the game, although it wasn’t as blatant as the Philadelphia one. Hawkins gets incentives based on GFs in an ill-thought out way around using Saves, and the only way he was going to get the GF after the error was to lose the game. I don’t believe he did it on purpose (and anyone who did is nuts), but it’s a strange way of earning am award someone. See if the 2 games mean something at the end of the season. The appearance did cause him to reach is first Games Appeared In incentive, making him $50K.
I didn’t see Kerry hit Kent, so I assumed he was so impressed with Glendon’s start on Friday, he had to get him another one. Now, after hearing more about it, I’m not sure he gets suspended, but I think it’s a possibility given what they’ve been doing this year.
When writing the history of this season, people will give Kerry a win for that game, but I think it would’ve been one he’d been lucky to get. His breaking stuff was not breaking where he wanted all day, and he was very much assisted by the big lead Oswalt gave up before punking out.
The Cubs got pretty luck this didn’t completely mess up their bullpen. Leister’s not used all that much and I don’t know they’d put Kyle in a close game right now, so all you lose is having only one lefty till Mercker or Rusch are ready.
Carlos actually wanted to start on three days rest in Houston to fill in for Kerry, but they talked him out of it. Probably a good move, and I think that also means they’re planning on using him as a starter in the playoffs, or they wouldn’t be concerned with burning his arm out getting there.
What’s kinda sad is how desperate portions of the media are for a Boston/New York divisional race and how much they’re showcasing it today despite it being illogical and irrelevant. There’s no race – Boston and NY would both be in it today, and they’d probably both be in if Boston did get closer, because NY would have to fall really far not to get the Wild Card. It’s not the best race – that’s obviously the AL West, with 3 teams within a half game each other and 2 going home if it ended right now. And it’s not even the previously dead but now come back to life race; that’s the NL West, where the Giants have creeped 4.5 games. A full game closer than BOS/NYY. Get out of here with that stuff.
Ben Sheets vs the Cubs
2001: 3 G, 3-0, 2.50 ERA
2002: 2 G, 2-0, 2.57 ERA
2003: 5 G, 1-2, 3.53 ERA
2004: 4 G, 1-2, 3.54 ERA
I guess that’s the power of Dusty.
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