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Road/Home splits, H-town vs. Chi-town
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Road/Home splits, H-town vs. Chi-town
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Reputation:99
Level:Superstar
Since:Sep 22, 2006
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Check out the NL Central standings:
Cubs - 25 W, 16 L, .610........ 17-7 home, 8-9 road, 4-4 E, 14-10 C, 7-2 W
Astros - 24 W, 18 L, .571...... 11-6 home, 13-12 road, 5-4 E, 8-6 C, 11-8 W
IMO, the Cubs should consider themselves very lucky.
They've gone 8-9 on the road... the 'Stros are 13-12.
Their home record is only more impressive than the Astros' home record because they've PLAYED SO MANY GAMES AT HOME.
The only thing I'll give the Cubs props for right now is their 7-2 record against the West. That IS truly dominant. We didn't have much success against the Padres, because they hadn't gone into the tank yet in those first four games of the season (we swept 'em in a 2 game series here in Houston, outscoring them MASSIVELY... and we handled the Dodgers and Giants... but San Diego was cruel, and Arizona was CRUELEST to us). HOWEVER... as good as the Cubs have been vs. the West, they've played 9 games to our 19.... vs. the West. So we'll see how it all pans out. But we've basically been almost FINISHING the season schedule vs. the West while the Cubs beat up on the Central's basement.
Let's take care of the Rangers (technically an AL West team!) this weekend, in the good ol' Central Time Zone..... and then head home to take on those aforementioned Cubs. NATIONAL LEAGUE CENTRAL... up for grabs, baby!
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Road/Home splits, H-town vs. Chi-town
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Since:Sep 24, 2006
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The 'Stros have played 8 more road games than home games. It'll be nice to be able to come home for a week series, as the Astros always fair pretty well against the Cubs in Houston. Sampson has GOT to pitch. He for some reason has the Cubs number. We just need to keep pace this weekend by taking a few from the Rangers.
Let's go 'Stros!
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Road/Home splits, H-town vs. Chi-town
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Road/Home splits, H-town vs. Chi-town
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We must be in the top 3 "teams with more road games so far than home games" in the NL, if not both leagues, right now... meaning we should have lost more than we've won... and we haven't. 24-18, baby.
It will be awesome to see what we've got for the Cubs, but the team's got to focus on playing some AL-style ball (which this year apparently means pitchers' duels with low scoring!) vs. the Rangers, so let's hope they're not getting ahead of themselves like I am! Heh...
Sampson should be pitching against the Cubs unless Thursday's outing has Coop worried or something... but I think Sampson earned some patience with his performance against the Dodgers last weekend. A 5-0 win speaks volumes. Didn't he go 7 innings in that game, too?
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Road/Home splits, H-town vs. Chi-town
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Road/Home splits, H-town vs. Chi-town
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Reputation:97
Level:Superstar
Since:Jun 19, 2007
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Shoot I would like to play Dbacks and Padres again right now. They were lucky that we weren't hitting well at the beginning of the season. Right now, we're hitting the balls well. Those games we lost could have turned in a win if we were to manage to score 5 runs or more which is what we have been doing recently. The Cubs were lucky to catch them when they went cold and the pitching cooled down. Shoot I say if we play those clubs again we could sweep them as well.
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Road/Home splits, H-town vs. Chi-town
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Reputation:92
Level:All-Star
Since:Mar 3, 2007
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The Cubs are same as usual, April and May glory, come September it will be wait till next year again. They'll find out next week what it's like to play a real team with some lumber in the lineup instead of the toothpick batters of the Pads and beating up on the celler dweller garbage like the Reds and Bucs. I can't wait to see the Pinella's coronary after Pence, Berkman, Lee and Tejada go back to back to back to back on that overrated staff. Can't wait.
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Road/Home splits, H-town vs. Chi-town
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The Astros may have some more late-inning success against the Rangers. Their bullpen is AWFUL. I wouldn't be surprised to see some more late-game rallies. But the Astros and Rangers always seem to have one game that is a slugfest for one or both teams every season. Wonder when that one will be.
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Road/Home splits, H-town vs. Chi-town
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godly: "Shoot I would like to play Dbacks and Padres again right now. They were lucky that we weren't hitting well at the beginning of the season. Right now, we're hitting the balls well. Those games we lost could have turned in a win if we were to manage to score 5 runs or more which is what we have been doing recently. The Cubs were lucky to catch them when they went cold and the pitching cooled down. Shoot I say if we play those clubs again we could sweep them as well."
We did play the Padres once we started hitting. We had a 9-run game against them and a 10-run game against them, IIRC. It was in a 3-game stretch where we scored 30 runs in those 3 games, regardless.
But yes, if we hadn't won 1 out of 4 to start the season at San Diego... because we played them a month or two later and won 3 of 4 instead, say... that sure would have been great, to pick up those games and not drop them.
houstros: "The Astros may have some more late-inning success against the Rangers. Their bullpen is AWFUL. I wouldn't be surprised to see some more late-game rallies. But the Astros and Rangers always seem to have one game that is a slugfest for one or both teams every season. Wonder when that one will be."
The very first one, it turned out! 16-8... heh.. figured, eh?
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Road/Home splits, H-town vs. Chi-town
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Reputation:94
Level:All-Star
Since:Apr 25, 2007
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"The Cubs are same as usual, April and May glory, come September it will be wait till next year again."
Where do you come up with that? Until this year, those have been two of their worst months because most of their sluggers don't start hitting until the weather warms up (Sosa, D Lee, Soriano, etc)
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Road/Home splits, H-town vs. Chi-town
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Road/Home splits, H-town vs. Chi-town
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Since:Jan 15, 2008
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gfoxcook, in response to your complaint about the Astros having had to play | |
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