Iowa Cubs (70-65)

The Iowa Cubs done it 4 in a row tonight with a 7-4 thumping of the Oklahoma City RedHawks.

Casey Fossum softened his jot down to 6-4 by permitting usually one run on dual hits over 5 innings. Fossum walked 4 and strike dual batters. He struck out nine.

Blake Parker pitched the ninth inning and picked up his 20th save. Parker authorised one strike and didn’t travel anyone. He struck out two.

First baseman Micah Hoffpauir went 2 for 4 with 3 RBI and a run scored. Third baseman Andres Blanco was 2 for 5 with dual runs scored. Shortstop Darwin Barney was 2 for 4 with a run scored.

Tennessee Smokies (34-28)

Ryno’s Boys stayed scored equally for initial place by beating the Moblie Bay Bears, 7-4.

Starter Jeremy Papelbon gave up dual home runs in his five-inning start, but got the win anyway. Papelbon authorised 4 runs on 7 hits. He walked dual and struck out one.

Brian Schlitter got save series twenty-one. He pitched the last 1.1 innings, permitting no runs on one hit. He didn’t travel a beat and struck out two.

Right fielder Tyler Colvin strike a bases-loaded 3 times and a piece for one person home run for 4 RBI tonight. Colvin was 2 for 4 and scored twice.

Third baseman Marquez Smith was 2 for 4 with a double, an RBI and a run scored. Shortstop Starlin Castro went 2 for 4 with a travel and dual runs scored. Castro additionally stole his third bottom for Tennessee.

Daytona Cubs (27-34)

The D-Cubs were thrashed by the Clearwater Threshers, 6-2.

Rafael Dolis proposed and usually went 3 innings. He gave up dual runs on 3 hits, nonetheless one of the dual runs was unearned. Dolis walked 4 and struck out 3 as his jot down forsaken to 3-9. His ERA is a important 3.54 though.

Left fielder Marwin Gonzalez strike his second home run, a piece for one person home run in the fifth inning. Gonzalez was 1 for 3.

DH Brandon Guyer was 2 for 4 with an RBI. Second baseman Jake Opitz was 2 for 3 wih a walk.

Peoria Chiefs  (38-23)

The Chiefs shucked the Cedar Rapids Kernels, 11-1.

Austin Bibens-Dirkx continues to browbeat the Midwest League. Tonight he softened his jot down to 7-1, tossing 6.2 innings and permitting usually one run on 5 hits. He didn’t travel any one and struck out six.  The Chiefs design Bibens-Dirkx to begin the playoffs for them, but I unequivocally think he needs to get a Sep call-up. Please?

It was a 6 RBI night for right fielder Kyler Burke, together with a 3 times and a grand slam. It was Burke’s 14th homer this year. Burke was 2 for 4 with a walk. He scored twice.

DH Ryan Flaherty was 2 for 3 with a stand in and a walk. He scored twice and had dual RBI. First baseman Rebel Ridling was 2 for 5 with an RBI and 3 runs scored.

Center fielder Jose Valdez done his Midwest League entrance a successful one. He was 2 for 5 with dual runs scored.

Boise Hawks (30-38)

The Hawks mislaid their sixth diversion in a row as they were messed up by the Tri-City Dust Devils 3-1.

Starter Robert Hernandez was flattering great tonight. He went 5 innings and authorised usually one run on 4 hits. He didn’t travel any one and struck out five.

Eduardo Figueroa got the detriment in relief. He gave up dual runs, one earned, over his 1.2 inning service stint.

Shortstp Hak-Ju Lee was 2 for 4 with a run scored.

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Make it fifteen wins for Justin Verlander. The Tigers’ genius shook off a new unemployment with 8 clever innings and Detroit rallied for a 4-3 win over the Rays.

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The report about Alfonso Soriano buried in one divide of this Sun-Times essay today positively floored me:

Soriano harmed the knee in Apr when he strike the outfield wall going after a ball. He has had diagnosis for months but complaining, but his mobility defensively and using have turn increasingly affected. He has left by a little of the longest attack slumps of his career — together with going but a home run from Jul twenty-nine to Friday, when he strike a game-winning, three-run homer in the eighth inning.

He harm his knee in April?? And they didn’t do anything about it then? Those of us who have been observant given at slightest mid-May which Soriano didn’t appear to be using great possibly in the outfield or on the bases were, apparently, correct. Why he didn’t go on the DL for a integrate of weeks in May — when he was slumping and the group wasn’t personification great — and repair this problem, so he could be at full strength now, is positively mystifying.

And further:

Soriano certified he hasn’t been equates to to put weight on his left knee, “but I do not wish to usually watch games — I wish to play,” he pronounced Friday. “It’s August. We usually have one month left [in the unchanging season].”

I suspect you have to give credit to a man who wants to get out there and assistance his team. But personification on a bad knee isn’t unequivocally helpful, as we have seen by Soriano’s fool around the final 3 months (with the difference of which three-week prohibited strain he had in July). If the diagnosis he can get along with a integrate days’ rest can get him out there and attack again (as great as not dropping easy fly balls), great. If not, that’s an additional inapplicable designation finished by government in 2009, not removing Soriano’s problems bound 3 months ago.

Anyway, let’s brush this series. No make a difference what it in conclusion means, and no make a difference how injury-depleted they are, it’s regularly gratifying to kick the Mets.

Today’s Starting Pitchers

Carlos Zambrano Cubs vs. Nelson Figueroa Mets 7-5 W-L 1-3 3.80 ERA 5.40 105 SO 17 60 BB 8 9 HR 4 vs. NY – vs. Cubs

Nelson Figueroa is a New York City local who was creatively drafted by the Mets in 1995. He was traded to the Diamondbacks in 1998 in a understanding which featured Bernard Gilkey. Then he was concerned in the understanding which got Curt Schilling to Arizona from the Phillies. This is all to discuss it you which he’s 35 and been around a prolonged time. He is 0-4, 4.40 in 9 career appearances (four starts) opposite the Cubs, the final of those being on April 22, 2008 at Wrigley Field. Aramis Ramirez is 4-for-9 with a stand in and a HR off Figueroa.

Carlos Zambrano has finished 8 career starts vs. the Mets and is 4-1, 3.76. He got strike flattering tough by them last Sep twenty-four in New York, but a lot of which repairs was finished by a grand impact from Carlos Delgado, who, along with $90 million value of his teammates, won’t fool around today. This would be a unequivocally great day for Z to step up and be which “ace” the Cubs need him to be.

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That got your attention. The Cubs will mangle a jot down when they get their initial strike off the Mets‘ Bobby Parnell this afternoon.

You’re still wondering what this is all about. Let me explain.

On September 20, 1958, Hall of Famer Hoyt Wilhelm threw a no-hitter opposite the Yankees, whilst pitching for the Orioles. The Yankees afterwards went 6,980 games but being no-hit, until 6 Astros pitchers no-hit them on June 11, 2003, about 44 1/2 years’ value of games.

The final time the Cubs were no-hit was Sandy Koufax’s undiluted diversion on September 9, 1965, a small reduction than 44 years ago. Through yesterday, the Cubs had finished 6,980 games but being no-hit. Thus, when the Cubs get their initial strike this afternoon, they’ll mangle that record. Thanks to SABR partial of Madison McEntire for the investigate and confirming to me the expect date of this record-breaking event.

The alternative big emanate to plead this sunrise is: where have been Rich Harden and Aaron Heilman going to finish the year? Both have been claimed on waivers, Harden by the Twins, and Heilman by the Giants. (Ironic — Heilman was brought in, at slightest in part, to reinstate Bob Howry, who was sealed by the Giants. Now, they could turn teammates, and further, the Cubs could breeze up confronting Heilman in San Francisco in September.) My feeling is: let Heilman go — he’s not expected to be behind subsequent year and the Cubs could simply reinstate him with Jeff Stevens or Justin Berg, for now. As for Harden, if the Cubs keep him and he afterwards leaves as a giveaway representative (presuming settlement is offered, that it expected would be), he would net the Cubs dual breeze picks. Jim Hendry to illustrate has to find out either he can get dual prospects from the Twins who would be value some-more to the classification than the breeze picks. If so, let him go — since you could afterwards re-sign Harden any way as a giveaway agent.

We’ll know the formula by Monday, the final day a player can be traded to a brand new group and still validate for postseason play.

Today’s Starting Pitchers

Ryan Dempster Cubs vs. Bobby Parnell Mets 7-7 W-L 3-6 4.07 ERA 5.08 122 SO 50 54 BB 30 18 HR 5 vs. Hou – vs. Cubs

Bobby Parnell was ostensible to be a buttress of the Mets’ bullpen this year. He was you do a flattering great pursuit of it compartment mid-June, when he proposed to get pounded; in twenty-five service appearances in between Jun 10 and Aug 5, he put up a 5.56 service ERA. Then, due to injuries, he wound up in the Mets’ rotation; he is 1-3 in 4 starts with an even worse 8.82 ERA. He done dual service appearances vs. the Cubs final September; no stream Cub has some-more than dual AB opposite him.

Ryan Dempster’s career numbers vs. the Mets aren’t as good great — 8-4, but with a 5.54 ERA, in twenty-three lifetime appearances (12 starts). However, all of those starts were in his prior incarnation as a starter with the Marlins and Reds — he didn’t begin vs. the Mets final year. Most of the Mets who strike him good (Carlos Beltran, David Wright) have been on the DL.

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