They're setting me up for yet another broken heart
Just when I was ready to write this season off, my Cubs have won seven in a row, and now trail the evil St. Louis Cardinals by only five and a half games.
Tonight, it was Cubs 5, San Diego 0 on a four-hit complete game by Glendon Rusch.
Derrek Lee- now hitting a major league-leading .389- also leads the National League in both home runs and RBI's. Lee has had eight consecutive hits, and has reached base in ten consecutive at-bats.
Neifi Perez is having an All-Star caliber season as he fills in for the injured Nomar Garciaparra.
The winning streak ironically started when staff ace Mark Prior got hurt. Kerry Wood was already on the disabled list. Rich Hill, who looks likely to be the next of the five or six possible future superstar pitchers to reach Wrigley, made his Triple-A debut yesterday, breaking Prior's Iowa Cub team record by striking out fourteen in six and a third innings.
I am still skeptical about catching St. Louis, or even winning the wild card (I think the wild card winner will come out of the West), but for the first time it doesn't appear out of the question that the Cubs could make the post-season after all. It doesn't matter if the Cards still win a lot, as long as the Cubs keep winning more often.
Tonight, it was Cubs 5, San Diego 0 on a four-hit complete game by Glendon Rusch.
Derrek Lee- now hitting a major league-leading .389- also leads the National League in both home runs and RBI's. Lee has had eight consecutive hits, and has reached base in ten consecutive at-bats.
Neifi Perez is having an All-Star caliber season as he fills in for the injured Nomar Garciaparra.
The winning streak ironically started when staff ace Mark Prior got hurt. Kerry Wood was already on the disabled list. Rich Hill, who looks likely to be the next of the five or six possible future superstar pitchers to reach Wrigley, made his Triple-A debut yesterday, breaking Prior's Iowa Cub team record by striking out fourteen in six and a third innings.
I am still skeptical about catching St. Louis, or even winning the wild card (I think the wild card winner will come out of the West), but for the first time it doesn't appear out of the question that the Cubs could make the post-season after all. It doesn't matter if the Cards still win a lot, as long as the Cubs keep winning more often.
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