What?! Ninety more feet?!
I never hit an inside-the-park home run in my baseball playing days, but I did hit a triple once and as I rounded second, the sight of third base was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. It wasn’t because I was excited about getting my first triple. I was just so damn happy to be done running.
So I can only imagine what was going through Geovany Soto’s head when, as he was heading toward third base in the fourth inning of Monday night’s game, he saw his third base coach waving him in.
“I was like, ‘There’s no way.’ I was about to give my last breath just to get to third, and he wants me to go home? I was like, ‘All right.’ I kept going with all I got, and I just got there,” Soto told the Chicago Tribune.
That’s great and all, but I think his thought process was more along the lines of, “F—!” Regardless, Soto completed the inside-the-park home run (which really should’ve been ruled a home run in the first place) and the Cubs went on to win 7-2.
Aramis Ramerirez went 3-for-5, including a home run, and drove in two runs of his own while Ryan Theriot and Derreck Lee knocked in an RBI each.
On the pitching side of things, Ted Lilly continued his string of solid starts by going 5-1/3 innings, allowing four hits, two runs and six strike outs. More importantly was Carlos Marmol’s performance in the eighth when he came in with two on and no outs.
Pops out Miguel Tejada.
Makes Jimmy Kimmel Lance Berkman look absolutely silly with some sick sliders.
Forces Carlos Lee into an inning-ending groundout.
Even Marisa Miller thought that was beautiful.
Oh, and that guy Edmonds made a Willie Mays-style basket catch in deep centerfield. Yup, just another day at the office for the Cubs.
