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Cubs back in 1st with win on ChicagoSports.com

BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog found this 9/13/2007 on chicagosports.chicagotribune.com

HOUSTON -- When Houston shortstop Mark Loretta started the bottom of the ninth inning with a ground ball that took a freakish bounce off the first base bag and wound up in right field for a base hit, any student of Cubs history knew exactly what was going to happen next. Mike Lamb followed with a run-scoring triple off Ryan Dempster to pull the Astros to within a run, and the Cubs were ...