Enhanced Box Score: Cubs 8, Astros 3 – October 2, 2010

By Brett on October 3, 2010

The Chicago Cubs continue to close the season on a torrid pace, with tremendous pitching, and – for the first time in a while – huge offense. Carlos Zambrano finishes the 2010 season with a 3.33 ERA, which, as a friend at SOI points out, is his best since 2005. Raise your hand if you saw that coming in August? Thought so.

Some other numbers we didn’t see coming earlier in the season…

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ripitrizzo82 I can see the love of the game in all of the cubs this year. Theres not a player on this team giving up.... – May 26, 3:51 AM
Cheryl I try to be optimistic but its difficult now. The cubs are a bad team and the different culture that they hope to establish... – May 26, 3:26 AM
ChicagoMike702 Took him daily when he was young of course. – May 26, 2:46 AM
ChicagoMike702 My grandfather lived 81 years (died in '06), his older brother worked at Wrigley and took him to the park daily. He obviously never... – May 26, 2:45 AM
BT I think that's a fantastic way of justifying after the fact, but a complete load of crap. I said Appel, essentially because it could... – May 26, 2:18 AM
Ferris This losing streak may be a silver lining, If Sori is now willing to except a trade he could be one of five or... – May 26, 1:54 AM
hansman1982 Nonsense, if only we had Manager XYZ and GM ABC we would have won 5 WS rings since Hendry. – May 26, 1:49 AM
hansman1982 Well then, someone is drunk. – May 26, 1:48 AM
dan Castro sucks erafw him hes not pRT OF THE FUTURE – May 26, 1:24 AM
Luke Not very soon. When the shuffle rosters around the start of the short season leagues, perhaps, but that would be the earliest. August is... – May 26, 1:12 AM

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Enhanced Box Score: Cubs 8, Astros 3 – October 2, 2010

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