I guess you can’t win them all, especially against the Cardinals. A team we’ve owned all year, the Cardinals finally took a series against us.
Carlos Marmol was gone after three innings on Friday and the pen didn’t fare much better. Michael Barrett and Aramis Ramirez both homered in the blowout loss.
The Cubs avoided a sweep by holding off a couple of Cardinals comebacks and then winning it in extra frames. Phil Nevin’s bases loaded single scored Jaque Jones to win it. Jones finished with two hits and two runs and Mike Wuertz picked up the win. A solid start by Carlos Zambrano went to waste as Bob Howry and Ryan Dempster both blew saves.
Yesterday, the Cubs ran into Chris Carpenter and could never quite get on track. Juan Mateo gave up four first inning runs and while he calmed down, that was all Carpenter would need. Ramirez hit homerun number 30, his third straight year he’s hit that milestone.
Next up is four against the Phillies. If I didn’t love baseball so much, I’d say get this season over with. It’d be nice to see at least something to build on for next year other then the fact that someone finally took Neifi Perez off of our hands.
