Archive for April, 2009
Soto off to bad start
Soto averaged a .333 at bat a year ago in his first month when he won the National League Rookie of the Year award. This season he is batting .128 in only his first 17 games. The Cub’s organization can only hope that Soto will soon find his hitting groove once again. Soto had missed most […]
Posted: April 27th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
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Milton Bradley Rolls 2
Milton Bradley has, as you know, been injured for awhile and is not 100% quite yet. It doesn’t really matter, because there’s still a controversy going on about his 2 game suspension. Apparently he made contact with the umpire with his hat and was thrown out of the game. He also was suspended for those […]
Posted: April 24th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
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Cincy Preview
The Cubs will be facing Cincinnati this week and it will be an interesting battle. Cincinnati isn’t necessarily one of the best teams that the Cubs will face, and after a St. Louis series and before another one, it’s going to be a little bit of a sleeper series, you might think. Tonight, Chicago will […]
Posted: April 21st, 2009 under Uncategorized.
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Guzman is back!
Angel Guzman landed his first win in relief on Saturday, when the Cubs came back to win the ball game against the St. Louis Cardinals. All in all it took Guzman forty games to get his first “win.” Guzman entire career has been plagued by injuries and its either his shoulder or elbow that keep […]
Posted: April 20th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
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So Close!
Ted Lilly battled it out against the Colorado Rockies and pitched really well! He had a no-hitter going all the way into the 7th inning, but then gave up a base hit. At the same time, it wasn’t a bad outing for him at all. He hardly even gave up a ground ball the whole […]
Posted: April 14th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
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Milton Bradley
New Chicago Cub Milton Bradley was always known for his “troublemaking” ways in the baseball community. No one know this more than Bob Watson who is baseballs top disciplinary official. Both Bradley and Watson joke about how they know that at some point of this season with will be another conversation about Bradley’s behavior. Milton Bradley has […]
Posted: April 10th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
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Zambrano Holds Out
Carlos Zambrano was able to overcome his old opening day problems. He hasn’t won on an opening day in several years, and apparently it was because he gets too nervous and wound up beforehand. But this year, he stayed in control and didn’t lose himself in the pageantry of the day. So he struck out […]
Posted: April 7th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
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Dempster
Ryan Dempster is ready to go forward into the season again. This is a team that is going to rely on their pitching a lot. Can Dempster be a big man on the rotation? He has had a great couple of years as a starter. He had an amazing amount of trouble as a closer, […]
Posted: April 3rd, 2009 under Uncategorized.
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