Things always revert to the mean. The Cubs are a pretty bad team this year and the Cardinals are pretty good. Somehow though, the Cubs have taken it to the Cardinals at least up until the past two weekends. This time, things fully reverted back, and the Cardinals took care of business by sweeping the hapless Cubs.
On Friday, all the Cubs could manage was five hits. Freddie Bynum had two of them as did Angel Pagan. Nobody scored and while Juan Mateo threw a really nice game, he dropped to 1-2.
The Cubs still couldn’t get their bats going on Saturday. This time, the Cubs scored but only managed three hits. Phil Nevin hit a solo homerun against Chris Carpenter and the two teams were actually tied heading into the bottom of the ninth. Roberto Novoa gave up thw winning run with two outs though and he took the loss.
The Cubs finally got some runs yesterday, but this time, the pitching wasn’t there. Walrond was shelled and didn’t last it through the third. The Cubs actually tied the game up, but then Bob Howry have up a grand slam in the ninth to end it. On ESPN’s game of the week no less. Jacque Jones drove in two runs in the 10-6 loss, and Juan Pierre and Bynum each scored twice.
Next up is three against a team that’s actually worse then we are. I wonder how attendance will be at Pittsburgh this week.
