mlb.mlb.com - 6/25/2008
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CHICAGO -- Bottom of the ninth, nobody out, bases loaded, down by two runs -- it was a perfect setting for a Cubs rally. "I thought we had a pretty good chance to tie the ballgame," Chicago's Aramis Ramirez said. Not this time. The Cubs lead the Major Leagues with 24 come-from-behind wins, but came up short on Tuesday night as the Baltimore Orioles held off a late surge to post a 7-5 ...
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The Anti-Heroes
Cubbie Nation - Notes from the Front Office —
Yeah right. Despite staging a furious comeback to make this game much more interesting than it should have been, the Cubs lost 7-5 to the Orioles last night in which no less than five Cubs had an opportunity to take this game. And not one did.
Let's start with Sean Marshall, recently recalled from his exile to AAA Iowa. He did not look sharp at all, giving up four runs in 4 2/3 innings. Interestingly, he sailed through the first three innings, before running into all sorts of problems in the fourth. First on a RBI triple -- yes, it can happen a Wrigley -- given up to Luke Scott that scored Kevin Millar and Ramon Hernandez. Then in the 5th, the RBI ...
It’s Nitpicking Time!
Hire Jim Essian —
On Saturday, in front of a fan base whose hobby of obsessing over them is exceeded only by their penchant for hurling racial epithets at minorities who walk in front of their bungalows as they sit on their stoop and drink gin made in their bathtub, the Cubs will play their eighty-first game of the 2008 campaign, the literal half-way point of the season. If the gods are continuing to shine down on Ryan Dempster and his career year later today, the Cubs will take the field tomorrow having become the first team in the majors this year to have won fifty games. They have been hovering at around twenty games over .500 for about two weeks now. They have gone to bed possessing the best ...
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HONDO GUNS FOR RAYS —
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