Tuesday the Cubs were just piling on the runs, you couldn’t keep them off the bases.  Only Bradley and Fukudome went without hits.  Carlos Zambrano was pitching a great game until he lost it when the pitcher hit a double off of him and the Brewers came back to put five runs on the board, giving them a one run lead over the Cubs.

  Geovany Soto came to the plate and after watching him get frustrated with the way Big Z had come undone, he took it out on the ball for a no doubter homerun tying the game!  Derrek Lee and Ryan Theriot both walked four times in this game and even Mike Fontenot got to play and help the team.  Earning him a second start, which was fantastic to see.

  The next night we just couldn’t get it together.  Rich Harden has been struggling which put us in an early hole, then you account for Cubs bad defense and you hand the Brewers a win.  I mean, the least we can do right now is tie the series, but I have a good feeling we’ll win today and take the series. 🙂 Ryan Theriot and Mike Fontenot were stealing some bases, too.  These two could run a whole lot more and I hope next year Lou decides to play more of the running game.  He has some guys on his team that have some serious speed, maybe during spring training he can work on that.  I would get these guys running: Ryan Theriot, Mike Fontenot, Sam Fuld (they would be smart to keep him), Reed Johnson and Kosuke Fukudome.  Fukudome being the iffy, though he has the speed I’m not sure he can pick the correct spots to run.  Theriot leads the team in steals and I think could steal a lot more given the chance.

  Congratulations to Aramis Ramirez for his two-run dinger yesterday.  Next year will be better just having him in the lineup all year. 

  The Brewers announcers were saying that there was an article in Chicago’s own paper that Ryan Theriot doesn’t make a good lead off hitter.  What exactly are they wanting from a lead off hitter?  Theriot is on base a lot, he takes a lot of pitches letting the guys behind him see what the pitcher has and he walks an awful lot.  I’m wondering how that is not a good lead off hitter, not to mention that he seems to be going back to hitting a lot of singles, which is what brought him up to the majors in the first place. The Cubs don’t need him to be a power hitter that’s what they pay Lee, Rammy, Bradley and Soriano for.  Though only two of those are any good at it.  Geovany Soto is also flexing some power again here towards the end.  Last year he had a lot of homeruns and this year, not so much, but I think he is packing his whole year into these last few weeks and I say, Go Cubs Go!

Final Score Tuesday: Cubs 13 Brewers 7

Final Score Wednesday: Brewers 9 Cubs 5

~Milli~