First team to 80 wins. 30 games above .500 for the first time this year. Baseball is certainly a numbers game and Chicago is posting good numbers. Here are a few more from today's win against the Nationals.
4....Straight games Mark DeRosa has hit a home run
6...Game hit streak for Mark DeRosa. He has ten hits in the six game homestand and is hitting .435 in that stretch.
8....Consecutive series wins by Chicago
9....Kosuke Fukudome hit his ninth of the season today. His first extra base hit since August 6th. It came in a pinch hitting appearance in the seventh.
11...Strikeouts by Rich Harden, tying a career high. He has hit double digit strike outs five times as a Cub. He only did it twice playing for Oakland.
19...Home runs this season (one today) by Geovony Soto tying a Cub record for rookies. I am sure he will surpass Randy Hundley before the end of the year.
The Cubs are certainly firing on all cylinders right now. Five more weeks to go, can they keep up this pace? I certainly think so. The depth of this team can help keep them fresh. Guys can get a day off and have someone else pick up the slack. That should help them stay fresh through the last 32 games and into the post season.
Next up is a brief road trip to Pittsburgh.
2 comments:
I went through the schedule on my blog and had them ending at 99-63. Bittersweet ... b/c 99 wins is sick and more than we could have hoped coming in, and yet it would kind of suck to fall one win short of the century mark in the centennial season.
Where's the post on the 12-3 win over the Pirates, errrr, Indianapolis Indians?
I was all fired up to point people to my "sizing up the awards post" (top one, just click on my name here.
Interested to hear your take on that one, Kevin.
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