Celebrate America’s birthday with a win, eh, Cubs?
Game Info
Atlanta Braves (42-38) at Chicago Cubs (30-50), 6:10pm CT on WGN.
Game Thread and Series Preview
The Game Thread lives here. You should participate in the madness. And, of course, for those who aren’t into message board-style game threads, please feel free to use the comments on this post for your in-game commentary/outbursts.
The Series Preview for this series lives here.
Starting Pitchers
Paul Maholm (5-6, 4.84 ERA, 2.12 K/BB)
versus
Randall Delgado (4-8, 4.52 ERA, 1.64 K/BB)
Atlanta Braves Lineup
1. Michael Bourn, CF
2. Martin Prado, LF
3. Jason Heyward, RF
4. Chipper Jones, 3B
5. Freddie Freeman, 1B
6. Dan Uggla, 2B
7. David Ross, C
8. Andrelton Simmons, SS
9. Randall Delgado, P
Chicago Cubs Lineup
1. David DeJesus, CF
2. Starlin Castro, SS
3. Anthony Rizzo, 1B
4. Alfonso Soriano, LF
5. Bryan LaHair, RF
6. Geovany Soto, C
7. Darwin Barney, 2B
8. Luis Valbuena, 3B
9. Paul Maholm, P
Hey Brett,
Did you mean Go ‘Merica!
They are in Georgia, right?
In that case it would be “Murka”.
Solid point
Why is soto in the 7th or 8th spot since he seemms to be doing so great!
Cubs could get Dempster to start on Sunday?
Who’s subbin for brenley?
Dave “Soup” Campbell. He used to do Sunday night games for ESPN for a long time.
Ahhh I missed the beginning of the game.
Man, that Jeff Baker sucks.
I think the writing is on the wall here. Rudy was bad for Castro. If t-riz keeps this up, and Castro continues to show patience, we could not suck someday soon.
Soup nailed it down when it came to Marmol’s problem in that Marmol became too relient on his slider.