Even Montreal Couldn't Contain These Nationals

Record (10-12)

Remember when I said the Cubs should take 2 of 3 from the Nationals and if they didn’t it’d be disappointing, but not surprising? Well… they didn’t. And it was very, very disappointing.

The Cubs took care of Game 1, but Livan Hernandez confused Cubs hitters for most of Game 2 and the Nationals evened the series. Yesterday’s game was the worst.

Dempster ended up pitching a pretty great game, going 8 innings and only giving up 4 hits. However, the two home runs he gave up ended up hurting him. Here’s the two stats that tell you pretty much all you need to know about the game:

Nationals:

Team Runners in Scoring Position: 1 for 1

Team Left on Base: 2

Cubs:

Team Runners in Scoring Position: 1 for 12

Team Left on Base: 11

Wow. The Nationals had one at bat with a man in scoring position, and they capitalized. The Cubs had 12 (!) at bats and had one hit. The Cubs scored 2 runs while getting 9 hits and 4 walks. The Nationals scored 3 runs while getting 4 hits and 1 walk. Not good. It was a very hard game to listen to.

Derrek Lee is continuing his slide and is now hitting .203. Ramirez is sitting at .155.

The Cubs start a four game series at home against Arizona today. I’ll be attending the final game on Sunday, so I’m looking forward to that despite the forecast of rain. Let’s do some predictions for today:

Lilly:

6 IP, 6 Hits, 3 ER, 5 K’s, 1 BB

Derrek Lee: 2 for 4, HR, 2 RBI’s

Cubs are going to win this one, 6-4.

-John Mark

**UPDATE: The wind is howling out today... could turn into a home run derby. Probably doesn't bode well for the Cubs. (1:04 PM)

-Welp, I was right about the Home Run Derby. 3 Diamondback home runs already. 6-1 Arizona in the 5th. (2:48 PM)