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Astros @ Cubs: Stymie the Bleeding

I'm not even going to dignify the fact that I purposefully inverted the Home and Away teams with a snide remark -- although this may have served as one.


Current Series

4 game series vs Cubs @ Minute Maid Park

Fri 09/12 Postponed
Sat 09/13 Postponed
Sun 09/14 WP: Carlos Zambrano (14 - 5)
LP: Randy Wolf (10 - 12)
0 - 5 loss

Chicago Cubs
@ Houston Astros

Monday, Sep 15, 2008, 1:05 PM CDT
Miller Park - Milwaukee, WI

Ted Lilly vs Brian Moehler

Partly cloudy. Winds blowing out to right field at 10-15 m.p.h. Game Time temperature: Around 60.

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Well, it wasn't until I just posted that widget that I became aware of the fact that the Cubs were slotting Lilly in today instead of Marquis. The only thing I can say about that is **expletive deleted**


W-L G GS CG SHO SV BS IP H R ER HR BB K ERA WHIP
2008 - Brian Moehler 11-6 28 23 0 0 0 0 138.1 151 67 64 18 33 76 4.16 1.33


W-L G GS CG SHO SV BS IP H R ER HR BB K ERA WHIP
2008 - Ted Lilly 14-9 31 31 0 0 0 0 184.2 178 91 88 31 60 166 4.29 1.29

Moehler was solid in his last outing, which inspires a modicum of confidence, but the analytical side of brian tells me not to put too much faith in him given the circumstances. Lilly has been on or off all year. In his last outing against the Astros he was on, but he most recently was shelled by the likes of Cincinati two starts ago. It would be nice to get Wigginton back in the line-up against the lefty, but Abercrombie is OPSing over 1.000 against lefties, so let's hope our righties mash Lilly.


Lineup

Chicago Cubs @ Houston Astros

09/15/08 1:05 PM CDT

Chicago Cubs Houston Astros
Alfonso Soriano - LF Reggie Abercrombie - CF
Mike Fontenot - 2B Mark Loretta - 2B
Derrek Lee - 1B Miguel Tejada - SS
Aramis Ramirez - 3B Lance Berkman - 1B
Micah Hoffpauir - RF Hunter Pence - RF
Geovany Soto - C Jose Castillo - 3B
Jim Edmonds - CF Darin Erstad - LF
Ronny Cedeno - SS Humberto Quintero - C
Ted Lilly - P Brian Moehler - P