Archive for June 27, 2008

PS3 Releases: week of June 23, 2008

on the shelves 06/23: Battlefield: Bad Company (and Gold Edition) (metacritic) – although the ads seem to focus on the single player mode, with the different characters in your group and the ability to blow up just about anything, the reviewers rave more about the team based multiplayer mode. Game is generally well received, with [...]

Game 65: Cubs 10 – Braves 5

Cubs 41-24 Braves 32-33 POTG: C Soto (HR, 2H, 2R, 3 RBI) Runner Up: LF Soriano (2H, SB, CS, IBB, 2R, 2BB), 1B D Lee (HR, 2 RBI), 3B A Ram (3 R, H, RBI, 3 BB), RF Fukudome (2 H, SB, R, RBI), 2B DeRosa (2 H, RBI), CF Johnson (H, 2 RBI, SF) [...]

Game 64: Cubs 3 – Dodgers 1

POTG: RP MARMOL (1.2 IP, 2 runners marrooned to preserve the lead) Runner Up: SP Jason Marquis (6.1 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 2K), 2B Mark DeRosa (3 H, 2 R, 2 RBI, HR) It was really three guys providing all the effort – DeRosa was responsible for the offense, Marquis [...]

Game 63: Dodgers 7 – Cubs 3

Cubs 39-24 Dodgers 30-32 POTG: LF Soriano (HR) Runner Up: none I choose to remember this game as Z going along fine, and then an error unfairly deraling things. It totally couldn’t be his fault, that’s impossible. 13 hits is surely an acceptable number. I just talked down Maddux as a pickup, but how about [...]

Game 62: Dodgers 3 – Cubs 0

POTG: none Runner Up: none I’m sure I watched this game. But I was so tired a this point, I may have just been staring at a blank screen for 3 hours. I recall nothing happened, and the box score indicates that’s pretty much right. I’m no scientist, but you’re not going win many games [...]