Cubs 1-1
Reds 1-1
POTG: SP Ted Lilly (7 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 9 K; W 60)
Runner Up: 3B A Ram (3 H, 2 R), 2B D Rosa (2 H, 2 RBI)
Vegas is laying odds of me making all 162 at about 100:1. I think I’ll fare better if I don’t drag these out so much.
Gil Meche pitched good in his debut, Ted Lilly pitched good in his debut – obviously, these big money deals for pitchers well spent. I look forward to Marquis’ 7 IP, 1 R performance!
It seems the plan is to throw Ryan Theriot in random positions with no warning (except not SS, because he’s actually played that!) and see if he sinks or swims. Based on his first experience in LF, this should be good for some laughs. By the way, I’d like to start a movement: all Cubs fans should refer to Ryan as athletic (which he is) and compare him to Chone Figgins (which remains to be seen), just to confuse fans of other teams when he turns out to a white guy.
It’d nice if we could get extra base hits, but it’s too soon to get picky about those technicalities.
Pinella being proactive, and yelling at Dempster to stop walking people before he blew a save doing it, was great to see.