Dodgers Stadium, Los Angeles, CA
Game 2 of 3
Buy your Carlos Peña jersey NOW!!! …while he’s HOT!!
The Los Angeles Dodgers, even though nobody seems to care much for them this year, are pretty good at playing baseball. The Cubs not only played well, but a couple of
REALLY FANTASTIC things happened during this game:
Carlos Peña hits his first Home Run as a Cub!Ryan Dempster pitches more than 4 good innings (7 great innings actually!)
It was Dempster’s 34th birthday and his first start since getting particularly sliced up by the Diamondbacks in his shortest career start ever on 4/29/11. If that isn’t a motivator for the ‘next time around’ I don’t know what is, but we are talking about Ryan Dempster and I know this isn’t the first year I’ve wondered how much gas he has left in his tank as a
better than average starting pitcher. 7IP, 6H, 1ER, 2BB, 5K, WP, 27BF, 114 pitches, 75 strikes…that’s a pretty snazzy line for a guy who’s pitching in his mid-30s. If you don’t think so, then just compare it to his line from 4/29/11, and now…how can you disagree? His first
Quality Start of the 2011 season. Dempster left with the game tied, however, so Kerry Wood gets the W in relief.
Dempster’s 6 hits and 1 run (earned) will be the only allowed in the game by Cubs’ pitching; Demptser, Wood, and Carlos Marmol combined did not allow
any extra base hits.
But HEY…Carlos Peña
finally gets his first tater of the season, a solo shot with one out, courtesy of Chad Billingsley, who also pitched very well. The Dodgers can blame this loss on Jonathan Broxton, but by golly…the Cubs did very well today!!
Andre Ethier extends his consecutive game hitting streak to 29.
Congratulations to Darwin Barney, National League Rookie of the Month for April 2011.
Go CUBS.
