As we all endure the final day of the All-Star break – a day I personally hate – let’s take a look at the Cubs season so far in 2009. First, let me preface what I am going to say by stating that although I am a glass-is-half-full kind of guy, I am not a [...]
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Jason Stark Weighs in On The Cubs
June 26, 2009 – 7:58 am
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 Drop First Two to Tigers
June 25, 2009 – 8:37 am
The Cubs dropped their third game in a row and the second to the Tigers on Wednesday, losing 5-3. The Cubs left 13 runners on base and were 1-15 with runners in scoring position. Rich Harden only gave up two earned runs on four hits in 5.1 innings. He also walked four and struckout three. On [...]
Cubs Win Again in Walk-Off Fashion
June 20, 2009 – 8:45 am
For the second day in a row, the Cubs won a game with a hit in their last at-bat. Two days ago, the victory came against the White Sox when Alfonso Soriano drove home Reed Johnson for the winning run on a bloop single into right-center field in the bottom of the ninth. Yesterday, the Indians [...]
Things Are Not As Bad As They Seem
June 19, 2009 – 8:23 am
If you’re a “glass-is-half-empty” kind of person, you can find plenty of reason to be depressed about the performance of the Cubs so far this season. Over the past month (26 games), the Cubs have averaged just three runs per games. They’ve generally gotten good pitching from their starters, but the effort has been wasted because [...]
Cubs Get New Hitting Coach
June 15, 2009 – 8:15 am
The Cubs have been having trouble scoring runs this year so they made the only move the could make. They fired hitting coach Gerald Perry and replaced him with Triple-A hitting coach Von Joshua. The move immediately paid off as the Cubs went out and beat the Twins 3-2 to salvage the final game of [...]
Cubs Take Two-Out-Of-Three in Cincinnati
June 7, 2009 – 8:27 pm
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 Split Two With Atlanta
June 4, 2009 – 9:01 pm
Randy Wells looked great again in the first game against Atlanta. He pitched 7.0 innings giving up just two hits and two earned runs. Unfortunately, the bullpen gave up five runs in the eighth and nineth innnings to allow the Braves to tie the game and then go on to win it in the 12th [...]
Cubs Report Card
June 2, 2009 – 9:52 am
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 [...]
Cubs Win, Dempster Great
May 31, 2009 – 8:34 am
The strong pitching of the past two days continued – at least for the Cubs – as they shutout the Dodgers 7-0. Ryan Dempster was the pitching hero on Saturday, throwing seven innings of four hit ball. He gave up one walk and struck out five on the way to the victory. Three of the [...]
