Friday, July 18, 2003

Marlins Series


Well finally the All-Star break is over and we can go back real baseball. The Cubs start off a 3 game series vs the Marlins tonight. The probables are.....

Fri 7/18 Clement (7-7, 4.39, 95 K) vs. Redman (7-4, 3.26, 72 K)
Sat 7/19 Wood (9-6, 3.19, 156 K) vs. Beckett (3-4, 3.86, 59 K)
Sun 7/20 Zambrano (6-8, 3.58, 94 K) vs. Willis (9-1, 2.08, 79 K)

This starts a tough stretch of about a month against alot of teams that are over .500. Its very very important the Cubs start off strong and atleast take 2 of 3 from the Marlins. I still think this team is gonna lay down and die in the second half, but i can pray that they will atleast make it interesting. Just take it one series at a time.

UPDATE: Prior has been pushed back till Tuesday with soreness in his shoulder due to the collision with Marcus Giles about a week ago. So Zamb should be moved up to start Sun and Estes will pitch Mon against Atlanta.