Morning Box Score: Pena Wins One for Cubs, Sox Clog Bases in Loss
By Chuck Sudo in News on Sep 8, 2011 1:00PM
Through the first seven innings of last night's game with the Reds it looked as though the Cubs would be heading into extra innings again. Then Carlos Pena put an end to the speculation with a mammoth tiebreaking three-run homer to send the Wrigley faithful home happy. Pena's shot landed somewhere on Sheffield Avenue and took Ryan Dempster off the hook for the loss. Dempster had one of those games where Reds hitters were locked in on him. He gave up 10 hits but the Reds stranded nine runners.
Speaking of stranding runners, how about those White Sox? They stranded 13 runners in last night's loss at Target Field. All postmortems on this year's squad will focus on their inability to drive in runs. It wasn't that hits were hard to come by as they rocked Carl Pavano for 10 hits in 5-1/3 innings. They couldn't get those hits with runners in scoring position. John Danks, meanwhile, allowed five runs on six hits.