So the Cubs will enter the crucial weekend series with the Cardinals three games up on them and the Brewers. It could be worse. I was out at the park Thursday night, probably for the last time this season unless the final weekend series with the Reds is meaningful or I score a chance to purchase playoff tickets. There was a good atmosphere and confidence held up even though the team played sloppy baseball early in the game and the rookie pitcher Tseng never seemed comfortable. I must say he showed some promise though he was overmatched right now.
Actually, I'm not certain why the Cubs gave him the start other than the desire to move Montgomery back to the bullpen. Montgomery eventually entered the game in the fourth, pitched two solid innings and came away as the winning pitcher. After Tseng exited in the fourth, the Cubs, who had stayed close through three innings, put on kind of a hitting and baserunning clinic to thoroughly outclass their opponents.
In the end, the Mets proved to be totally incompetent in almost every facet of the game. It seemed fitting the game ended on a freakish play where the final out was made against a baserunner who attempted to score from second on a dribbler maybe ten feet up the third base line that Avila somehow thought he should field even though it was almost certainly going foul. Avila fell down and rolled over into foul territory in the process, righted himself only to discover the Mets baserunner half way down the third base line. He flipped the ball to Pena who applied the tag ten or fifteen feet in front of home plate to end the game.
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