Morning Box Score: Cubs Pick Up Where They Left Off
"Sit down, dumbass!": Indelible proof to baseball fans on both sides of town that your heckling doesn't faze professionals. Marlins batter Greg Dobbs, the subject of this misguided Cubs fans ire, would clear the bases with a three-run double in this at-bat. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
We haven't always been White Sox fans; growing up we were the Cubs fan in a family that pulled for the Sox. And it still pains us sometimes to see a good thing by a Cubs player go to waste. Things like the seven innings of shutout ball that Matt Garza dealt last night. Garza was in total command last night and showed why Jim Hendry traded for him in the offseason. But Carlos Marmol has nothing in the tank right now but sliders that hitters are waiting for him to throw. Marmol walked four and gave up the deciding hit, a three-run double by Greg Dobbs with the bases loaded (aided by Darwin Barney's throwing error.
Barney did drive in a run after being hit by a pitch for the Cubs and Marlon Byrd hit a solo home run, his first after coming back off the DL.
