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2-11, 5.48 |
5-6, 4.25 |
excluding their head-to-head games, the cubs and cardinals are both .500 teams --- cubs 56-56, cards 55-55. the cubs lead the head-to-head series by 3 games, 6 wins to 3, and that advantage accounts for their entire margin in the standings over st louis --- as well as their margin over .500 and, correspondingly, the cards' margin under. the teams play each other 6 more times; st louis needs to win 5 of them to take the season series. the way things are going, those outcomes may be decisive.
or maybe not.
no complaint about yesterday's game --- both teams played good defense, and both pitching staffs managed to locate most of their pitches within angel hernandez's fitful strike zone. the cardinal hitters were inordinately impatient --- didn't take a single called strike in the 1st inning, and only 2 in the 2d; in the 8th and 9th innings, they didn't take a single one --- saw 14 strikes in those two innings and swung at every one of'm. even david eckstein went up there hacking yesterday; he only took one called strike all day. saw 13 strikes in his 4 at-bats; swung at 12.
of interest elsewhere:
- if you were wondering how the flight path of rich hill's fastball differs from that of his curve, read this; highly technical, but the graphs are easy to read.
- coming soon to the wrigley field outfield: eddie van halen?
- the guy who filed this lawsuit definitely needs a blog. i'd read it. . . . . .