Astros 4, Cubs 3, Final - Apr. 4, 2008

Another Cubs Blog • Astros at Cubs open game thread
LINKS B-REF PREVIEW | GAMEDAY | ACB CHAT ROOM The Cubs won their first game of the year yesterday behind some very good pitching.  They avoided the sweep, which is, you know, good.  The Astros come to town for a 3-game weekend ...

GoatRiders of the Apocalypse • Series Preview - Chicago Cubs vs. Houston Astros
Alright, I don't really have a format for these series previews yet, so I guess this is the intro part. I think this is where I used to say things about both teams and the state of the world and baseball in general. Unfortunately, since I was ...

The Cub Reporter (TCR) | A Chicago Cubs Blog - • Game 4 Thread / Astros @ Cubs (1 of 3)
Game Chat | Press Pass | BR Preview SP Chris Sampson SP Rich Hill (2007) 7-8, 4.59 (2007) 11-8, 3.92 CF  ...

Another Cubs Blog • Cubs are digging a hole
The Astros beat the Cubs 4-3 today while the Brewers were killing the Giants.  They’re 2 games back, which isn’t much at all no matter when it is, but the Cubs are now 1-3.  All of those games have been played at home where they ...

Road to Wrigley • Rain, Snow Close Opening Day
Yesterday’s weather was so poor that the Iowa Cubs called off their opener several hours before its scheduled 3:05 P.M. start. Right about the time the first pitch would have been thrown, a persistent day-long drizzle gave way to a ...

GoatRiders of the Apocalypse • Game Recap: Astros 4, Cubs 3
Memo to the Cubs: you have to win these one-run games. I kind of hate blogging about games that I don't get to see, but hey, somebody's got to do it! It started out as you might imagine ... Rich Hill had moments of Mitchdom, specifically ...

The Crawfish Boxes • Houston Astros VS Chicago Cubs : Recap
The Houston Astros and the Chicago Cubs played game 1 of a 3 game series today at Wrigley Field in Chicago with the Astros winning 4-3 behind 6.2 strong innings of 2 run work by Chris Sampson.  These last 2 outings by Sampson and Chacon ...

The Crawfish Boxes • Houston Astros at Chicago Cubs, 1:20 PM CDT
Cubs and Astros, both off to slow starts with just one win each. 

From the Cubicle: Cubs-Astros
Live play-by-play commentary of today's Cubs-Astros game from a guy who was not up all last night fantasizing about the Cubs lineup. Hardball: Piniella on Chicago media "fantasies"

Cubs defenseless in falling to 1-3
J.R. Towles did a handstand after he was hit by a pitch in the second inning, then homered in the fourth. Miguel Tejada added a go-ahead triple in the eighth inning as the Houston Astros beat the Cubs 4-3 today and sent Chicago to its third loss in ...

Lou keeping his cool
Is it the weather icing the Cubs' bats? ''I'm not making excuses, but it is cold,'' manager Lou Piniella said Friday after a 4-3 loss to the Houston Astros dropped his slumping team to 1-3. ''We'll get better.''

Astros Two-Step Cubs
                Miguel Tejada tripled in the seventh to score the go-ahead run, and Jose Valverde got his first save to lead the Houston Astros (2-3) to a 4-2 victory over the ...

Astros Beat Cubs 4-3
The Cubs lost the first of a three game set against the Houston Astros 4-3. Geovany Soto drove in the first two runs for the Cubs in the bottom of seventh with a two-run single. Mark Derosa homered in the ninth but committed a costly error in the ...

Astros-Cubs: Houston Takes Game One
The Cubs lost the first of a three-game set against the Houston Astros 4-3. Geovany Soto drove in the first two runs for the Cubs in the bottom of seventh with a two-run single. Mark Derosa homered in the ninth, but committed a costly error in the ...