The Chicago Cubs picked up a win at home over the New York Mets by a score of 7-1 in  yesterday’s game picking up their 12th win in the last 15 games.  This win puts the Cubs at 13-6 for the season.

Aramis Ramirez hit his fifth home run of the season in the fourth inning off John Maine.  It was a two run shot that put the Cubs up 2-1.  Felix Pie hit his first home run of the year in the eigth inning off Jorge Sosa giving him his fifth RBI of the season.  Ronny Cedeno also picked up a pair of RBIs giving him eight for the year.

Carlos Zambrano opened the game up for the Chicago Cubs pitching for seven innings and only allowed five hits and one run moving his record for the season up to 3-1.   Carlos Marmol and Kerry Wood came in to pitch the last 2 innings and did not allow one hit.

The Chicago Cubs will take on the New York Mets one more time tonight at home to see if they can keep their winning streak going.

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The Chicago Cubs stuck it to the Pittsburgh Pirates with a 13-6 win on Sunday putting the Cubs at a pretty good start for the season with 12-6 record so far leading the National League Central standings.  The Cubs took over the game with 18 hits to generate 13 runs with runs in almost every inning of the game.

Ryan Dempster sealed his 3rd win of the year holding his perfect season of 3-0.  He pitched for five innings giving up five hits and three runs to be relieved by Bob Howry, Michael Wuertz, and Sean Marshall.  All three relievers in the game gave up one earned run each so that is something they are going to need to work on.

Aramis Ramirez hit in his fourth home run of the year as he knocked in four RBI in the game.  Ryan Theriot, Derrek Lee, and Matt Murton all had two RBI each.  Ronny Cedeno also had one RBI for the Cubs.

The Chicago Cubs will go up against the New York Mets starting Monday night at home.   Do you think they can stretch the winning streak to four games with Carlos Zambrano on the mound?

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The Chicago Cubs defeated the Cincinnati Reds in Dusty Baker’s return to Chicago by the score of 9-5 on Tuesday evening.  The Cubs used three long balls by Derrek Lee, Mark DeRosa, and Ryan Theriot to get by the Reds.  The wind was blowing out and the Cubs sure took advantage of it.

Lee and Derosa both finished with three RBI while Theriot had two RBI.  Aramis Ramirez also had one RBI in the game.  I just have to laugh everytime Aramis is at the plate, the guy just swings for the fences everytime, and I’ll predict that he hurts himself sometime this year swinging the bat the way he is swinginig right now.

Ryan Dempster picked up the win for the Cubs even though he didn’t pitch like he is capable of.  He was a little wild but kept the score close and ended up picking up the win as he pitched six innings of four run baseball.  Carlos Marmol, Michael Wuertz, and Kerry Wood and seen in action to close the game out.  Wuertz sucked it up, Marmol was able to get out of a bases loaded jam, and Wood looked great.

Alfonso Soriano was placed on the disabled list with a calf injury and Eric Patterson has been called up to take his spot on the roster.  Most Cubs fans thought it would be Matt Murton getting called up, but for some reason Jim Hendry choose Eric Patterson.

The Chicago Cubs blew a 7-0 lead and then went onto beat the Pittsburgh Pirates in 12 innings by the score of 10-8.  It was a sloppy game played by both teams.  From errors, to walked batters, it seemed like the game would never get over.  Finally the Cubs pushed across two runs in the 12th inning to pick up the win.

Jon Leiber pitching in relief picked up his first win of the season.  Carlos Marmol pitched the 12th inning and picked up his first save of the season.  Kerry Wood wasn’t planned to be used today, and that was why Marmol pitched the 12th inning.

At the plate for the Cubs, Kosuke Fukudome went 3-5 with an RBI, Geovany Soto was 3-7 with two RBI, Aramis Ramirez also had two RBI, and Ronny Cedeno had a bases loaded double that scored three runs for his only hit of the game.  Mark DeRosa was the only other Cub to record an RBI.

It was dissapointing to see the Cubs blow the big lead, but that is what happens when you walk batters and have three errors in the game.  With the off day tomorrow, hopefully they will take some groundballs and get some work in on the defensive side of the ball.

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The Chicago Cubs have finally won a game in 2008!  The Cubs defeated the Brewers by the score of 6-3 on Thursday afternoon as they salvaged one game out of a three series.

Starting pitcher Ryan Dempster pitched a lot better the most fans expected.  Dempster piched six innings while only allowing three hits and one earned run.  He had a bad first inning where the Brewers scored two runs, but after that he settled down and pitched a pretty good game.

Carlos Marmol and Kerry Wood came in and closed the door on the Brewers in the 7th, 8th, and 9th innings.  Wood picked up his first save for the Cubs as well.  That sure was a great sight seeing Marmol and Wood blow through the Brewers the last three innings.

At the plate for the Cubs, Aramis Ramirez hit his first homerun of the season and Alfonso Soriano collected two RBI’s.   Ryan Theriot, Mark DeRosa, and Geovany Soto each had a RBI for the Cubs as well.

The Cubs will now play the Houston Astros.  Another divisional series, and hopefully the Cubs can win a couple of games and stay near the top of the divison.

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