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third of a four game series between the dodgers and cubs happens today @8:05 tonite...the cubs have taken the first two games and now they send their ace to the mound
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LAD: D. Lowe (2-5, 5.03)
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CHC: C. Zambrano (7-1, 2.47)
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The Dodgers have dropped four of five games, scoring one run or fewer in each of those losses. They’ve stranded 20 runners on base in the first two games of this series.
“We’re fighting it now,” Dodgers manager Joe Torre told the team’s official Web site. “We give ourselves very little room for error. When it’s a close margin, everybody feels the pinch right now.”
That doesn’t bode well for this matchup with Zambrano, who had been masterful against the Dodgers before his last start against them in 2007.
He was tagged for eight runs in 4 1-3 innings in that game - an 11-3 home loss on Sept. 3. That performance inflated Zambrano’s career ERA against the Dodgers from 1.86 to 3.35 and dropped him to 2-2 in 10 games - six starts - against them.
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Lowe is 1-1 with a 3.72 ERA in six career starts against the Cubs, and the Dodgers are 4-2 in those games. Chicago’s Derrek Lee is 10-for-22 (.455) lifetime against Lowe, but has seven strikeouts and only one home run against him.
By DAN PIERINGER, STATS Writer
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my pick...cubs -165
third of a four game series between the dodgers and cubs happens today @8:05 tonite...the cubs have taken the first two games and now they send their ace to the mound
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LAD: D. Lowe (2-5, 5.03)
vs
CHC: C. Zambrano (7-1, 2.47)
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The Dodgers have dropped four of five games, scoring one run or fewer in each of those losses. They’ve stranded 20 runners on base in the first two games of this series.
“We’re fighting it now,” Dodgers manager Joe Torre told the team’s official Web site. “We give ourselves very little room for error. When it’s a close margin, everybody feels the pinch right now.”
That doesn’t bode well for this matchup with Zambrano, who had been masterful against the Dodgers before his last start against them in 2007.
He was tagged for eight runs in 4 1-3 innings in that game - an 11-3 home loss on Sept. 3. That performance inflated Zambrano’s career ERA against the Dodgers from 1.86 to 3.35 and dropped him to 2-2 in 10 games - six starts - against them.
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Lowe is 1-1 with a 3.72 ERA in six career starts against the Cubs, and the Dodgers are 4-2 in those games. Chicago’s Derrek Lee is 10-for-22 (.455) lifetime against Lowe, but has seven strikeouts and only one home run against him.
By DAN PIERINGER, STATS Writer
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my pick...cubs -165