Wednesday, August 31, 2005 |
Lowe Road's The High Road: Dodgers 7, Cubs 0
Derek Lowe is using the f-word again.that he was finally ready to talk to the media about his life's One True Love, Carolyn Hughes, but in fact it was about his fine pitching performance today, a complete-game, one-hit shutout of the entirely swishable Cubs, who Lowe played like a plastic harmonica from a Crackerjack box. Dusty Baker, while not as helpful as yesterday by shifting K-K-Korey Patterson to the eight hole, did manage to somehow keep the .406-OBPing Matt Murton out of the lineup, save as a pinch hitter.
The Dodgers' side of things went far more swimmingly, with offensive cipher Jose Cruz, Jr. a home run clear of the cycle, Olmedo the Tomato getting in a two-run dinger, and Jayson Werth knocking in three despite coming perilously close to a Golden Sombrero. All of which is to say that Glendon Rusch's performance, kicking out all seven earned runs over a particularly comic (for the Dodgers) two innings, was a complete and total failure. Surprisingly, the one area where the Cubs' have had trouble -- the bullpen -- held up its end of the deal today by not allowing a single run. That included rookie Jermaine Van Buren, whom the Cubs faithful have already dubbed "The Prez", and eagerly await to see in action in 2006.
As Al noted, the Cubs haven't been no-hit at Wrigley in forty years, not since Jim Maloney of the Reds did it on August 19, 1965. Incredibly, it was a complete game extra innings affair. Lowe never made it to that level of success, but considering how homeriffic he's been this year, it was easily his best start in the second half, and considering what a homeriffic team the Cubs are, maybe his best start of the year.
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