Tag Archives: Cincinnati Reds

Blown Save Leads to Cubs Loss

For the second day in a row, Kevin Gregg blew a save opportunity and the Cubs lost to the Marlins 3-2.  Ryan Dempster got the start for the Cubs and looked good, pitching 6.0 innings of three hit baseball and holding the Marlins scoreless.  The Cubs offense could only muster one run while Dempster was in [...]

Trade Deadline Thoughts

Several trades took place today before we hit the trade deadline at 4:00 ET.  I’m not going to cover all of the trades here, but you can check out MLB Trade Rumors for all of the trade news.  For now, I just want to talk about a few of the trades that stick out to [...]

Cubs Take Over First Place

After their 5-2 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Sunday, the Cubs found themselves all alone in first place in the NL Central.  The sweep of the Reds coupled with the Cardinals loss at Philadelphia catapulted the Cubs into the division lead. Rich Harden earned the victory on Sunday by pitching 6.0 innings of one [...]

Cubs Win First Two Against Reds

The Cubs have taken the first two games against the Reds by scores of 8-5 (Friday) and 5-3 (Saturday).  In the Cubs last nine games since the All-Star break, they are 7-2. In the two games against the Reds, Alfonso Soriano is  4-for-8 with a homerun and an RBI.  It’s an incredibly small sample size, [...]

Jason Stark Weighs in On The Cubs

The Cubs lost again to the Tigers.  I don’t want to talk about it. ********** Today, I want to talk about a colum that Jason Stark has on ESPN.com.  In it, he has a few things to say about the Cubs.  First he talks about the Cubs offensive woes.  Here’s what he has to say: Who [...]

Cubs Take Two-Out-Of-Three in Cincinnati

The Cubs continued to get good pitching and very little offense in their 2-1 victory against the Reds in the first game of the series.  Carlos Zambrano pitched 6.2 innings, giving up just two hits and no earned runs.  He also hit what would prove to be the game winning home run in the fifth [...]

Cubs Report Card

We’re about one-third of the way through the 2009 season and time to take stock of where the Cubs stand and what we can expect for the rest of the seaon. At the moment, the Cubs are one game over .500 with a 25-24 record.  The are in fourth place in the NL Central, four [...]