May 2009
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Cubs Place Zambrano on Disabled List, I Place Hot Poker in My Ear
It is barely May, and the Chicago Cubs have already seen Derrek Lee, Aramis Ramirez, Milton Bradley, Geovany Soto, and now Carlos Zambrano miss significant time. It’s a g-d miracle this team is above .500. Carlos Zambrano was placed on the 15-day disabled list with a Grade 2 left hamstring strain. Infielder Bobby Scales was [...]
God’s Wrathwatch: Zambrano Had MRI, Probably Going to Miss Next Start
The 2009 Chicago Cubs can’t catch a break – unless that break is in a tibia. Pitcher Carlos Zambrano left yesterday’s game with a strained hamstring after legging out a bunt, and reportedly had an MRI late last night. The results have not yet been released, but manager Lou Piniella has already said that Zambrano [...]
Enhanced Box Score: Marlins 4, Cubs 6, May 3, 2009
Derrek Lee hit a grand slam and the Cubs won again. Great. But at what cost?
You Gotta Be F’in Kidding Me: Zambrano Leaves With Hamstring Injury
What is that, 7 down, 18 to go? Cubs starting pitcher Carlos Zambrano had to leave Sunday’s game against the Florida Marlins in the fifth inning after straining his left hamstring as he ran and beat out a bunt single. Zambrano tried to remain in the game, but as the next batter, Alfonso Soriano, was [...]
Ryan Theriot … has … the … POWER!!!
In honor of Ryan Theriot’s power surge, we present a humorous photo from the Cubs Brickyard. Though, if he keeps hitting bombs, the photo will become less humorous and more suspicious. In fact, the article from which the photo comes is starting to look prescient. Ryan Theriot is one home run shy of tying his [...]
Enhanced Box Score: Marlins 1, Cubs 6, May 2, 2009
Ted Lilly was dominant but only one man deserves enhancement on this day.
A Brief Word on Why Bleacher Nation Does Not Do Game Recaps
Aside from the tedium of writing the same game recap that every single news publication and every other blog writes, we don’t do recaps here at Bleacher Nation in no small part so that I don’t have to come up with ridiculous titles like this: For Cubs and Lilly, day is a real dilly :: [...]
Aramis Ramirez is Expected Back to the Lineup Today, and the Lineup Is Shifty
By Brett on May 4, 2009
Just in time for the Chicago Cubs’ rotation to go to something less than full strength, the team’s lineup appears ready to return in full. Third baseman Aramis Ramirez, sidelined for a couple weeks with a strained calf muscle is set to return. Manager Lou Piniella hopes it’ll be tonight against the Giants. When he [...]
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