Sandy Gemmiti

The Chicago Cubs finished the sweep of the Arizona Diamondbacks yesterday at Wrigley Field.  The Cubs finally picked up their level and play and finished the sweep of a solid ball club.  The D-backs if Cubs fans recall took care of them easily in the playoffs last season so it was nice to see the Cubbies put these fellas down early in the season. 

Chicago now sits at 22-15 good for first in the division and Kerry Wood looks to have calmed down into his closer role.  Wood also has added a new “backup slider” to his arsenal that has looked very very good.  Soriano finally looks to have got his bat off his shoulders and lets see this ship keep going fellas!

Today Zambrano will start things off against the Padres!  I am going to call a 6-2 victory for the Cubs tonight.  Randy Wolf will be 2-3 at days end with big Z at 6-1.

Sandy Gemmiti

The Chicago Cubs continued to put runs on the board in a 7-1 thumping of the New York Mets.  In a series that will be a very good measuring stick for where this club is at, the Cubs came out of the gates strong.  Ramirez knocked another out of the park in the 4th inning for his 5th homer of this early season, and Felix Pie also went yard for the first time this season on an offering from relief pitcher Sosa.

Carlos Zambrano again looked solid in his 3rd win of the season going 7 strong with 5 hits, 1 ER, 2 walks, and 4 K’s.  Marmol and Wood both came in to the game and both had very similar results.  Both Wood and Marmol shut the door allowing no hits and no walks to end the ball game.

 Cub Clips:

 Fukudome just continues to impress me with his terrific plate apperances.

D-Lee was solid again with 1 hit and 2 runs scored.

Soriano was reported to have been doing some jogging prior to the game and plans to be back next week.

Reed Johnson reached base twice with 1 hit and 1 walk and continues to make the Coco Crisp rumours go away.   Toronto is really looking smart for letting him go for nothing  :)

Sandy Gemmiti

The Chicago Cubs finished the sweep of the Pirates for the second time this season and now will face the New York Mets.  The Mets should provide a good test and allow the Cubs to see how they look against a team that should contend for the title this season.

Chicago has played solid baseball up to this point in the season but it has been far from fantastic.  The slow start of Soriano was topped of with a trip to the 15 day DL and hopefully he is working at full speed when he gets back.  Fukudome and D Lee continue to be very bright spots for this club along with some steady pitching.  The best thing to take from the weekend is the fact that they put up 13 runs in back to back games!  finally the bats that everyone thought would be going for the Cubs have started up.

 Zambrano takes on Maine to start the series! should be a good one.