| |
| Dodgers aim to stay unbeaten at home in clash with Diamondbacks |
MLB Baseball |
05/04/2009 |
| |
| cks will also visit San Diego on the road swing. Taking the ball for the D'Backs on Monday will be Doug Davis, who is 2-3 with a 2.91 earned run average in five starts this season. Davis has won two of his previous three appearances and defeated the Chicago Cubs the last time out on April 29, yielding only two hits over seven shutout innings. Davis, a left-hander, owns a 5-3 record and a 3.04 ERA in nine career starts against the Dodgers, who won two of three games at Arizona's Chase Field from April 10-12 |
|
| |
| Giants to open road trip in Wrigley |
MLB Baseball |
05/04/2009 |
| |
| (Sportsbooks) - Though the San Francisco Giants have yet to lose a home series this season, they haven't been able to carry that success with them on the road. The team visits the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field tonight for the opener of a quick two-game set. Including a two-game sweep of San Diego in mid-April, the Giants have yet to lose any of their five home series this year and are 10-4 at home after Sunday's 1-0, 10-inning victory versus Colorado. However, San Francisco is just 2-7 on the road and |
|
| |
| Johnson goes for Marlins in opener with Reds |
MLB Baseball |
05/04/2009 |
| |
| will try to maintain the positive side of an inconsistent season. A 6-foot-7, 261-pounder, Harang has alternated losses and wins over his five starts, beginning with a 2-1 defeat by the New York Mets on April 6. He's since beaten Pittsburgh and the Chicago Cubs, while losing to Houston twice. In 32 innings, Harang has allowed 33 hits and 11 earned runs. He was 2-1 in three starts against the Marlins last season, posting a 6.98 earned run average in 19 1/3 innings while striking out 14 and walking four. On |
|
| |
| National League Game Capsules |
MLB Baseball |
05/03/2009 |
| |
| n and Miguel Montero each slugged solo homers in the seventh frame off Bush to provide the Arizona offense, tying the game, 3-3. Final Score: Chicago 6, Florida 4 Chicago, IL (Sportsbooks) - Derrek Lee hit a grand slam in the fifth inning and the Chicago Cubs held on to down the Florida Marlins, 6-4, in the finale of a four-game series at Wrigley Field. Mike Fontenot turned in a two-hit effort and clubbed a solo homer for the Cubs, who took three of the four games in the series. Chicago has won four of s |
|
| |
| Lee's grand slam lifts Cubs over Marlins |
MLB Baseball |
05/03/2009 |
| |
| Chicago, IL (Sportsbooks) - Derrek Lee hit a grand slam in the fifth inning and the Chicago Cubs held on to down the Florida Marlins, 6-4, in the finale of a four-game series at Wrigley Field. Mike Fontenot turned in a two-hit effort and clubbed a solo homer for the Cubs, who took three of the four games in the series. Chicago has won four of six overall. Aaron Miles chipped in with an RBI double in the victory. "We're playing a lot better," Lee said. "We've been so up and down this year and to go out a |
|
| |
| Cubs' Zambrano leaves with leg injury |
MLB Baseball |
05/03/2009 |
| |
| Chicago, IL (Sportsbooks) - Chicago Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano left Sunday's 6-4 win over the Florida Marlins in the fifth inning with a left hamstring strain. The Cubs ace hurt the leg while legging out a bunt single to lead off the frame. After talking a few minutes with manager Lou Piniella, Zambrano was replaced by pinch-runner Rich Harden. Zambrano (3-1) picked up the win after allowing two runs on four hits, while striking out three and walking one. |
|
| |
| Dodgers vie for history-making win over Padres |
MLB Baseball |
05/03/2009 |
| |
| win at Colorado the following day. He did not factor in the final outcome, but surrendered only three hits and struck out five over five shutout innings. Gaudin went 9-5 with a 4.40 ERA over 50 appearances, including six starts, with Oakland and the Chicago Cubs last season, and recorded a career-best 11 wins in 34 starts with the Athletics in 2007. He was released by the Cubs just prior to Opening Day and signed by the Padres organization on April 12. His only career encounter with the Dodgers came in reli |
|
| |
| Winless Zito gets call for Giants in tilt with Rockies |
MLB Baseball |
05/03/2009 |
| |
| the Rockies belted three home runs en route to a 5-1 triumph that evened this series. Marquis (4-1) yielded one run and five hits while walking just one in going the distance for the first time since May 9, 2007. The right-hander, acquired from the Chicago Cubs via trade over the winter, is now 4-1 with a 3.31 earned run average in his first five starts as a Rockie. Ryan Spilborghs paced Colorado with a 3-for-4, two-homer, three-RBI performance at the plate, while Brad Hawpe added a solo blast to help the |
|
| |
| Marlins to face dual-threat Zambrano in finale with Cubs |
MLB Baseball |
05/03/2009 |
| |
| (Sportsbooks) - The Chicago Cubs used excellent pitching and power hitting to win Saturday's matchup with the Florida Marlins. There's a chance the team will get both of those qualities when Carlos Zambrano participates in this afternoon's finale of a four-game series between the clubs from Wrigley Field. Zambrano, a recipient of the National League's Silver Slugger award honoring the top-hitting pitcher in two of the past three seasons, showed off his two- way skills in Chicago's 11-3 rout of Arizona t |
|
| |
| D-Backs aim to continue good pitching against Brewers |
MLB Baseball |
05/03/2009 |
| |
| 17 runs (15 earned), 23 hits and four homers over a 15 2/3-inning span. His most recent outing was the worst of the bunch, as Petit surrendered seven runs on eight hits and walked three before being removed after 3 2/3 innings of an 11-3 loss to the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday. The 24-year-old Venezuelan, who is taking the place of injured ace Brandon Webb in the Arizona rotation, is 0-1 in three career games (2 starts) against the Brewers, but has recorded a 2.25 ERA during that stretch. In his lone matchup wi |
|
| |
