Game 11: Reds 1 – Cubs 0

Reds 7-5 Cubs 4-7 POTG: SP Ted Lilly (2 H, ER, BB, 10 K, QS) Runner Up: 3B T Riot (3 H), RP Michael Wuertz (2 IP, 3 K) It’s ridiculous to not have a uniform strike zone in 2007. Either umpires shouldn’t be as all over the place as they’ve been the last two … Continue reading “Game 11: Reds 1 – Cubs 0”

Reds 7-5
Cubs 4-7

POTG: SP Ted Lilly (2 H, ER, BB, 10 K, QS)
Runner Up: 3B T Riot (3 H), RP Michael Wuertz (2 IP, 3 K)

It’s ridiculous to not have a uniform strike zone in 2007. Either umpires shouldn’t be as all over the place as they’ve been the last two days – the strike zone seemed twice as wide today as it was yesterday – or robots should take over. Right now, I’m rooting for robots.

(Speaking of Big Plans that stand no shot of happening, I think every MLB team should be asked to pitch in $3 million dollars to buy Minnesota a roof for the new stadium. It’d be nice if it was movable and all, but an open air stadium in Minnesota in April and October is just going to be awful. The league will lose more money on postponed games, schedule changes and bad press when they have chornic snow/cold out problems than they would for just paying for the dome themselves. At the least, every new open air stadium should be required to be easily modifiable to include a movable roof, so they can put one on later if/when they suddenly can afford it.)

Anyway, back to the game – the winner was the home plate ump, who was allowing a big strike zone. The hitters should’ve adjusted better, but I think you can’t take the pitching numbers too seriously from this game.

The real difference was the Cubs inability to get a run across in the sixth. I guess they didn’t want to squeeze in front of Lee, but relying on Jacque to make contact when you absolutely need it is dumb, and it was dumb here again. The game was lost with Jacque’s and Derek’s at bats.

Strange they took out Lilly soon, and used Dempster in back to back games, but I guess no Eyre helped cause it, or Pinella just wanted to use his “best guy” to keep it close.

I don’t know if DeRosa’s “I was working out so hard, I strained my back” story is actually true – it would help if it didn’t take two days for it get out.