On the ground | Author: Carlos
Groundball, grounded out to second, groundout.
Try doing that a fifteen times. Chances say that you’re gonna lose.
Well, that’s how many times Tim Hudson had groundouts to retire the Cubs; he pitched a complete game, his first in months, and led the red hot Braves team to win 4-2 against a flawed Cubs, Monday night.
Carlos Zambrano sans inning four was as good as always, striking out ten batters, walking none and throwing a normal 100+ pitches in eight innings. Kerry Wood, though, seemed lost against a very focused Chipper Jones (he’s actually the key to this Braves team — the spark of the lineup; he hit two homeruns and drove in all four runs of his team) and ended up taking the loss, in the ninth inning of tonight’s game.
Hudson pitched nine innings on seven hits, one hit batsman (a pretty wild one, to Matt Lawton on the leg) and five strikeouts. He walked just one batter. That one batter, Derrek Lee, hit his thirty seventh homerun of the season and tied Ernie Banks’ record mark in a season by a Cubs first baseman.
Carlos Zambrano didn’t allow a baserunner in any inning but the fourth. (Jeff Roberson/AP)
- Game reviews | Time: 5:30 am (UTC+8)
