The Cubs took the lead, 3-1, in the fourth inning. They nipped us at the wire a couple of times.'' ''They beat us this year in the series, and we played good baseball.
Getting Their Guy: The Mets finally found a general manager and Steven Cohen, the team’s owner, says the move got universal praise at the owners’ meetings.A Star in Limbo: Seiya Suzuki is poised to be the next star to come to the United States from Japan, but his posting has been interrupted by the major league lockout.Meet the Max: Max Scherzer was introduced by the Mets as baseball’s highest-paid player and he discussed the pressure of such a distinction.and its player union unable to come to terms on a new collective bargaining agreement, the league enacted a lockout, freezing all transactions and starting baseball’s first work stoppage since the 1994-95 strike.
The White Sox had won four of their last five and were in third place in the American League Central, behind Kansas City and Minnesota. Going into today's game, the Cubs had lost four games in a row and were in third place in the National League Central Division, behind St.
''I always say that a good pitch can stop a good hitter,'' Sosa said. Sosa praised the performance of Cubs starting pitcher Kerry Wood, who allowed only four hits and two runs over eight innings. But in the end, they prevented a sweep of the weekend series by the White Sox with a 5-2 victory today. The Cubs fell victim to an end-of-June swoon, in part because of their American League hometown rivals. Cellular Field in the finale of this year's interleague matchup between the Cubs and the White Sox: the battle for bragging rights was already over the merciless derision by White Sox fans aimed at Sammy Sosa because of his use of a corked bat was not over and, at least for now, the Sox were hot and the Cubs were not. A few things were clear, even before the first bat cracked today at U.S.
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