April 2007 Thoughts
What a wild month Cub fans. It all started on June 1st when the infamous clubhouse/dugout fight between Carlos Zambrano and Michael Barrett occurred.
1) Barrett missed a pitch that could have easily been caught.
2) In the dugout Barrett pointed to the scoreboard.
3) All hell broke loose.
The next day, Lou Pinella was ejected for arguing a call. He kicked dirt on the umpire and kicked his hat. This may have been a plot to fire up his team and I guess it worked.
We went into Milwaukee and took 2 out of 3. Then we split a 4 game series with Atlanta. On the Sunday Night game, Ted Lilly got ejected in the 1st inning because the ump "knew" he was going to do that.
We then beat the Astros in a 1 game snowed out series. We took 2 out of 3 from PhillipNelsonFan's Mariners. The Padres (Michael Barrett's future team) came in and took 2 out of 3 and in Texas we only took 1 game out of 3 against the Texas Rangers.
Then we headed to US Cellular Field for a 3 game series against the White Sox. In game 1, Zambrano threw a masterpiece giving us a 5-1 victory. In game 2, a suicide squeeze by Ryan Theriot gave us the lead and the 2-1 victory. Game 3 we won but we will not forget the inteference play with Hawk screaming his head out and saying things like "DAT'S BS" and "The umps are inventing things out there"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7pQnPczK5SY
We swept our crosstown rivals!
Then, the Colorado Rockies came into town and what a game it was. We led by 5 runs in the 9th and the Rockies came back to take the lead.
A drunk fan went after Bobby Howry on the mound and was tackled.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=iyvzVHkzeAc
In the bottom of the 9th, the Cubs rallied and an Alfonso Soriano basehit brought in 2 runs to give the Cubs the win!
http://media.putfile.com/Alfonso-Sorian ... ngle-62507
The Cubs took the next 2 games for another sweep.
Then, the biggest series of the year came around. The Milwaukee Brewers led 5-0 after the 1st inning in game 1 at Wrigley but the Cubs rallied back again. The Cubs were down 5-3 going into the bottom of the 9th. With a runner on 3rd Derrek Lee brought him in with a sac fly to right. Aramis Rameriz then came up and hit a game winning walkoff homer to give the Cubs the win and a big 7 game win streak.
http://www.greystonesbaseball.org/PatRon.mp3
The Brewers came back to kill the Cubs in game 2 of the series.
Games:
June 1st - VS Atlanta Braves Loss 8-5 (22-30)
June 2nd - VS Atlanta Braves Loss 5-3 (22-31)
June 3rd - VS Atlanta Braves Win 10-1 (23-31)
June 4th - @ Milwaukee Brewers Win 7-2 (24-31)
June 5th - @ Milwaukee Brewers Loss 7-5 (24-32)
June 6th - @ Milwaukee Brewers Win 6-2 (25-32)
June 7th - @ Atlanta Braves Win 2-1 (26-32)
June 8th - @ Atlanta Braves Win 9-1 (27-32)
June 9th - @ Atlanta Braves Loss 9-5 (27-33)
June 10th @ Atlanta Braves Loss 5-4 (27-34)
June 11th - VS Houston Astros (Make-Up) Win 2-1 (28-34)
June 12th - VS Seattle Mariners Loss 5-3 (13 Innings) (28-35)
June 13th - VS Seattle Mariners Win 3-2 (29-35)
June 14th - VS Seattle Mariners Win 5-4 (30-35)
June 15th - VS San Diego Padres Win 4-1 (31-35)
June 16th - VS San Diego Padres Loss 1-0 (31-36)
June 17th - VS San Diego Padres Loss 11-3 (31-37)
June 19th - @ Texas Rangers Win 5-4 (32-37)
June 20th - @ Texas Rangers Loss 7-3 (32-38)
June 21st - @ Texas Rangers Loss 6-5 (32-39)
June 22nd - @ Chicago White Sox Win 5-1 (33-39)
June 23rd - @ Chicago White Sox Win 2-1 (34-39)
June 24th - @ Chicago White Sox Win 3-0 (35-39)
June 25th - VS Colorado Rockies Win 10-9 (36-39)
June 26th - VS Colorado Rockies Win 8-5 (37-39)
June 27th - VS Colorado Rockies Win 6-4 (38-39)
June 29th - VS Milwaukee Brewers Win 6-5 (39-39)
June 30th - VS Milwaukee Brewers Loss 13-4 (39-40)
Final June Record: 17-10
The Road Ahead:
July Listings:
July 1st - VS Milwaukee Brewers
July 2nd - @ Washington Nationals
July 3rd - @ Washington Nationals
July 4th - @ Washington Nationals
July 5th - @ Washington Nationals
July 6th - @ Pittsburgh Pirates
July 7th - @ Pittsburgh Pirates
July 8th - @ Pittsburgh Pirates
July 13th - VS Houston Astros
July 14th - VS Houston Astros
July 15th - VS Houston Astros
July 16th - VS San Francisco Giants
July 17th - VS San Francisco Giants
July 18th - VS San Francisco Giants
July 19th - VS San Francisco Giants
July 20th - VS Arizona Diamondbacks
July 21st - VS Arizona Diamondbacks
July 22nd - VS Arizona Diamondbacks
July 24th - @ St. Louis Cardinals
July 25th - @ St. Louis Cardinals
July 26th - @ St. Louis Cardinals
July 27th - @ Cincinnati Reds
July 28th - @ Cincinnati Reds
July 29th - @ Cincinnati Reds
July 30th - VS Philadelphia Phillies
July 31st - VS Philadelphia Phillies
We have a pretty easy road ahead in July. The 2 key series are the St. Louis one for obvious reasons and the Phillies one for Wild Card Purposes.
GO COBS GO!
