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It's the final weekend of the minor league regular season tonight, and a couple of Cubs farm teams are still fighting for playoff spots.
Iowa Cubs
The I-Cubs are already in the playoffs, and tonight they trounced the Omaha Royals, 7-2.
J. R. Mathes improved his record on the season to 9-5 tonight by allowing two runs over five innings. Mathes got tagged for seven hits. He ...
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They did it again.
Each day, new heroes, new ways to win; I stare in amazement, as the atmosphere at Wrigley Field gets more and more playoff-like; today, Alfonso Soriano's 7th-inning homer off Clay Condrey gave the Cubs a 3-2 win over the Phillies, their seventh win in a row, but it was patience and walks that put the ballclub in position for victory.
Clogging the bases with relish, ...
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Philadelphia Phillies
@ Chicago Cubs
Friday, Aug 29, 2008, 1:20 PM CDT
Wrigley Field
Joe Blanton
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Rich Harden
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Sunny. Winds blowing in from center field at 5-10 m.p.h. Game Time temperature: Around 80.
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The weather this weekend is supposed ...
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So you tell me. What if I had written yesterday afternoon:
The Cubs are going to be shut down by Cole Hamels and Ryan Dempster is going to not have his best stuff; they're going to go into the 8th inning trailing 4-1 but win anyway when Aramis Ramirez hits a grand slam.
You'd have laughed your head off, even in this year of superlative after superlative. But that's exactly what ...
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Iowa rode a couple of big home runs to a 8-3 victory over the Memphis Redbirds in a still-meaningless game.
Randy Wells had another good start and improved his record to 10-4. Wells allowed two runs on three hits over six innings. He didn't walk a Redbird and he struck out five.
Kevin Hart threw a perfect ninth inning.
Has someone around here written a folk song ...
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Philadelphia Phillies
@ Chicago Cubs
Thursday, Aug 28, 2008, 7:05 PM CDT
Wrigley Field
Cole Hamels
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Ryan Dempster
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Mostly cloudy with a 50-percent chance of rain. Winds blowing out to center field at 5-10 m.p.h. Game Time temperature: Around 80.
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The I-Cubs lost another meaningless game to the Memphis Redbirds, 6-4.
Jason Stanford started and pitched well with the exception of one two-run home run. Stanford pitched five innings and allowed only those two runs on three hits. He didn't walk a batter and struck out three.
Hector Carrasco took the loss in relief. He gave up two runs on three hits in ...
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Stop what you're doing right now and look around you, remember where you are, what you are doing, because this is an historic day in Cubs history.
You'd have to be over 70 years old (and there may be a few here, but not many) to really remember the last time a Cubs team was 33 games over .500. It was on September 30, 1945, the last day of that pennant-winning season, when they finished ...
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@ Pittsburgh Pirates
Wednesday, Aug 27, 2008, 11:35 AM CDT
PNC Park
Jason Marquis
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Zach Duke
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Cloudy with a 90-percent chance of rain. Winds blowing in from center field at 5-10 m.p.h. Game Time temperature: Around 70.
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Well, that was about the most whacked-out game I've seen in quite some time. Consider:
Carlos Zambrano started the game by throwing a wild pitch on strike three, walked four, allowed eight hits, made a throwing error, smashed a couple of Gatorade coolers, and didn't last long enough to win.
Alfonso Soriano dropped a fly ball -- this time after dark -- just as he did in the sunshine ...
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The rosters for the Arizona Fall League were announced today. The Cubs are the host team for the Mesa Solar Sox and this year they will be providing six players to that team along with the Phillies, Braves, Marlins and Tigers. Ryne Sandberg will serve as one of the coaches for the Solar Sox and former Cub Ray Burris will be the pitching coach.
The players all must have played at ...
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@ Pittsburgh Pirates
Tuesday, Aug 26, 2008, 6:05 PM CDT
PNC Park
Carlos Zambrano
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Ian Snell
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Partly cloudy. Winds blowing from left to right field at 5-10 m.p.h. Game Time temperature: Around 75.
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There's only one bit of info I ...
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Neither a Sonny & Cher nor a Britney Spears song, the Cubs nevertheless kept pounding rhythm through our brains with a 12-3 win over the Pirates last night before a crowd of 14,454 in Pittsburgh that seemed, as many road games do these days, about half Cubs fans. It put the Cubs over .500 on the road at 32-31; only four other teams (Angels, Cardinals, Brewers, Phillies) have winning road ...
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As I race to get this done before tonight's outage. . . Luckily, I caught some breaks tonight.
Iowa Cubs
The I-Cubs clinched their division yesterday with a victory over the Oklahoma RedHawks. Thus, tonight's game against second-place Memphis Redbirds was meaningless. Memphis was very disappointed, so they just postponed it.
Not really. It was raining.
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@ Pittsburgh Pirates
Monday, Aug 25, 2008, 6:05 PM CDT
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Ted Lilly
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Jeff Karstens
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Clear. Winds blowing from left to right field at 5-10 m.p.h. Game Time temperature: Around 75.
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Fun with numbers:
The Cubs are 11-4 ...
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Here are some photos from this weekend's wins.
Saturday
Ryan Theriot turning a double play in the first inning
Aramis Ramirez hitting the first of his two HR Saturday in the fourth inning
Derrek Lee swings and strikes out awkwardly, hurting his back...
... checked out by the trainer.
Sunday
Ryan Theriot takes off...
... and steals second! ...
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Congratulations to the Iowa Cubs. We all hope that this isn't the last clinching night for a team named "Cubs."
Iowa Cubs
The Iowa Cubs clinched the PCL American North DIvision title tonight with a come-from-behind 5-3 victory over the Oklahoma RedHawks.
Mitch Atkins got the start and while he didn't get his eighth victory for Iowa, Atkins did keep Iowa in the game by allowing ...
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While Rich Harden was mowing down the Nats seemingly without effort this afternoon, the happiest Cubs player had to be Kosuke Fukudome, who hit a two-run, pinch-hit HR, his first since July 31 in Milwaukee, to put the Cubs' 6-1 win over the Nationals on ice, making the score 5-1; they would extend it to the final 6-1 thanks to some dubious Washington plays in the field... you can really tell ...
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@ Chicago Cubs
Sunday, Aug 24, 2008, 1:20 PM CDT
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Jason Bergmann
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Rich Harden
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Mostly sunny. Winds blowing in from left field at 5-15 m.p.h. Game Time temperature: Around 75.
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In spring ...
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The first in a series...
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