fade cubs and wells in 30 mins

Junkyard Dog · 08-14-09, 12:58 PM

ramirez is starting on yahoo

Chi_archie · 08-14-09, 01:03 PM

espn.com and a pittsburgh site have fox batting 4th and playing 3rd today

VegasDave · 08-14-09, 01:05 PM

Good luck Arch... young arms are always so hard to predict.

Shortstop · 08-14-09, 02:06 PM

It's already ugly. The over might hit in the 2nd inning.

G's pks · 08-14-09, 02:08 PM

And you live in Chicago... oh boy...

Mikail · 08-14-09, 02:14 PM

Bats a swinging in Wrigley!!! over in 2nd inning. This is gettin UGLY!!!

Fischnasty · 08-14-09, 02:20 PM

LOL. sorry arch. Cubs RL here.

Shortstop · 08-14-09, 02:22 PM

The Cubs might put up 25 runs today.

smitch124 · 08-14-09, 02:24 PM

C. Bootcheck (30.86) pitches to ...

unde0087 · 08-14-09, 02:28 PM

pirates have their work cut out, especially when they spot the Cubs 14 run lead, my friend

yisman · 08-14-09, 02:30 PM

Originally posted by Chi_archie

at first glance I was gonna take the cubs -1.5 today as i thought Aram was coming back today... he is not.

Randy Wells, former catcher, is due for some major regression... and i think it comes today at the hands of the AAA pirates. Wells is hitting some red flag areas in innings pitched this year, and in his last 3 games he set a record for combined pitch count. He is already showing signs of some dead arm....

I see him getting lit up for 5-7 runs in 4-5 innings today...

Garrett Jones is due for a couple homers anyways

Pirates +1.5
pirates ml
pirates -1.5

yisman · 08-14-09, 02:39 PM

Most impressive statistic:

Charlie Morton had a 3.81 ERA in ten starts entering this game.

His ERA is now 5.51 after allowing TEN EARNED RUNS and only recording three outs.

G's pks · 08-14-09, 02:43 PM

Yisman...that picture made me laugh!

fsugolf · 08-14-09, 02:43 PM

well at least it's still under 6?!?!?!

yisman · 08-14-09, 04:32 PM

Originally posted by G's pks

Yisman...that picture made me laugh!

Originally posted by fsugolf

well at least it's still under 6?!?!?!

True...

Cubs won 17-2.

Chris Bootcheck entered the game with a 21.6 ERA. It actually rose. He allowed seven earned runs in 2.1 innings. That was his longest appearance of the season. His ERA is now 24.75.

The game featured 19 runs in the first four innings and zero runs in the last five.