The Cubs won their third straight game with a 7-5 victory over the Brewers.
As with any good team, the Cubs are getting strong performances from different
players each week. Chris Greig pitched all seven innings to record his first
victory of the season. Through six innings Chris had only given up 3 hits
and 1 earned run!! The offense was paced by John Sudkin, Tom Barnes and Mark
Grogan, while last week Earl Carpenter and Eddie Murray had big games.
Defensively, the Cubs were fairly solid. The play of the game was turned in
by catcher Earl Carpenter who gunned down a potential base stealer at third
base. The runner got a great jump but Earl threw a perfectly placed bullet
to third that Dan Gould caught and tagged out the runner without moving his
glove. Chris picked off a runner at first so far that firstbaseman Tom
Barnes had to wait for the runner to get to first to apply the tag. The
versatile Dan Gould played his first game at third this season and had a great
game with seven assists! Dan also had 2 putouts, pretty busy day for a third
baseman!
Offensively, John Sudkin had a great day. He was 3-3 with an RBI in each at
bat. This performance raised his season average to .500! Two of the hits
were doubles and two were with two outs. The Cubs scored 4 runs with two outs
in this one. The biggest two ended up scoring in the bottom of the sixth.
With 2 outs and no one on, Tom Barnes singled and was driven in by a Sudkin
double. Matt Corkum followed with an infield single. Then walks to Tim
Shaver and Chris Greig drove in the last run. With the Brewers scoring 3
in the top of the seventh those two runs ended up being the difference in
the game. Tom Barnes was 1-1 with a sac fly, a walk and 2 runs scored. Mark
Grogan raised his team leading batting average to .563 with a single and HBP.
Eddie Murray was 0-3 but absolutely crushed the ball twice only to have outfielders
come up with good catches. Tony Leary had a nice double deep down the left
field line in the fifth inning.