Shortly after pulling off a pair of early-game escapes, Tom Gorzelanny half-jokingly told manager Lou Piniella he had just walked more in one game than Seattle’s Cliff Lee had all season.
Archive for July 6th, 2010
Carlos Zambrano is expected to resume working sometime this week, though the Chicago Cubs aren’t sure when he’ll return to the team.
The Chicago Cubs today recalled right-handed pitcher Justin Berg from Triple-A Iowa and optioned right-handed pitcher Jeff Stevens to Triple-A.
When you give up 4 home runs and 9 runs in a game, you don’t figure to be a happy camper. Fair to say Cubs starter Ted Lilly was not a happy camper following Sunday’s 14-3 loss to Cincinnati, particularly after the Reds scored 8 runs in the seventh inning to blow things open.
With every loss, with every game the Cubs fall back in the standings, Ted Lilly knows the trade rumors are just going to get louder.
For three months they spent almost every day acting out the same script
whenever somebody put a baseball in their midst. And while the Cubs’ 9-4 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Monday
doesn’t mean they’re out of the woods — or even fourth place — the
story line at least changed for one day in July.
PHOENIX — Carlos Silva admitted some disappointment with not being selected for what would have been his first All-Star Game. ”Maybe a little bit,” he said.
PHOENIX — As Carlos Zambrano’s evaluation and anger-management process continue this week, the Cubs are plotting a throwing program that the former ace might be able to start by the end of the week.