Pathetic

I believe I called this shot last night in noting the Mariners, despite their terrible record, had good starting pitchers and a big ballpark. In particular, they are sending out two good lefties in the first two games and Lou is determined to trot out the all right-handed lineup that does not hit lefties nor score runs nor get on base.

Tonight was more of the same. Dempster pitched a good game, making only a single mistake to Guittierez. Soriano will look as if he had a wonderful game in the box score, but two of his hits were bloopers and the other would have been a double for anyone who actually ran out of the batters box instead of observing the play for a while before committing himself. His base-running blunder on Colvin's line drive directly at the Mariners' left fielder was just ridiculous and a further example of how this team and this player in particular simply doesn't care at all how stupidly they play. That play pretty much ruined the only scoring chance the Cubs had until the top of the ninth when they mounted a tepid rally with two men out but failed as usual to deliver.