Cubs set to battle Tampa Bay

The Chicago Cubs, are rolling. With a record of 45-25, Lou Pinella takes his boys back to Lou’s old stomping grounds, and home of one of the young surprises of the 2008 season. Tampa Bay Rays come in with a 40-29 record, 2 games back of Boston in the AL East, and leaders of the [...]

Cubs win, take 2 of 3 in Canada

Life for the Chicago Cubs without Alfonso Soriano is well underway, and so far the results have been surprisingly positive.
Ted Lilly gave up one hit in six scoreless innings, Derrek Lee drove in three runs and the Chicago Cubs won for the sixth time in seven games with a 7-4 victory over the Toronto

Soriano broke [...]

Marquis good/Cubs win

Cut loose by the Blue Jays during Spring Training, Reed Johnson made a triumphant return to Toronto on Saturday.
Johnson hit a three-run homer, Jason Marquis tossed seven solid innings to win his third consecutive start and the Chicago Cubs defeated the Blue Jays 6-2 for their sixth win in seven games.
Johnson, who was released by [...]

Cubs set to travel to Canada

With Alfonso Soriano sidelined with a broken hand, the Chicago Cubs will travel North of the border to take on the AL Eastern Toronto Bluejays. The Bluejays come into the series with a .500 record of 34 wins and 34 losses. They currently trail the Boston RedSox by 7.5 games in the AL East. The [...]

Soriano doesn’t think it’ll take six weeks

Alfonso Soriano’s bat had come around for the Chicago Cubs. He was running the bases and in the outfield with ease. He was no longer tentative after an early season calf injury.
Then with one fastball that tailed inside, his season was put on hold again — maybe for six weeks—and the NL Central leaders were [...]

Alfonso hopes to be back soon

Alfonso Soriano returned to Wrigley Field on Thursday morning, sporting three rings of tape on his fingers, the result of being hit by a pitch and breaking a small bone in his left hand.
Soriano entered the clubhouse with a splint covering the hand but took it off before addressing the media. He hopes for an [...]

Soriano hit by pitch, breaks hand

By: Carrie Muskat, MLB.com
CHICAGO — Alfonso Soriano was just starting to get his legs under him, but he’ll now be sidelined for six weeks with a broken finger.
“It’s a costly loss,” Cubs manager Lou Piniella said. “It’s a bad break for us, it really is.”
Soriano suffered a minimally displaced fracture of the fourth metacarpal [...]

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Zambrano/Soriano and the Cubs set to take on struggling Lowe/Dodgers

Carlos Zambrano is looking to continue his quest for the Cy Young he failed to get after his guarantee last season. So far, he is well on his way. 8-1 with a 2.51 era, striking out 57 and walking 28 for the first place Chicago Cubs. He will face a promising righthander who has struggled [...]

Cubs get shutout

The Chicago Cubs had a rarity Friday night. They were shutout. Hiroki Kuroda threw a four hit shut-out, striking out 11 Cub batters in a 3-0 win. Our boy Alfonso Soriano had one of the four hits, to raise his batting average to .281.