Another one run loss. Ortiz pitched better than anyone might have expected. He had a rocky start, but were it not for a terrible error by Baker on a double play ball and a misplay by Ramirez on what should have been a routine play, he might have escaped the first inning behind only 1-0. After that he was pretty good, and the bullpen was solid as well except for the mercifully short stint by Grabow (5 pitches, one base-on-balls).
Ramirez continued his current hot streak with a two run home run, but that was all the Cubs could muster against the previously erratic left-hander Detwiler. Detwiler had walked almost 50 batters in around 100 innings coming into the game, but the Cubs drew no walks and saw only 78 pitches into the sixth inning when Detwiler was removed. Not impressive, but par for the course for a team that just plays sloppy, thoughtless baseball day in and day out but still comes close to winning. Go figure.
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