Game Noets for Sunday, August 19
Game # 129 - Home Game # 66
RH Mike Parisi (7-10, 5.12)
TODAY'S GAME:
The Cubs and the Memphis
Redbirds play game two of a four-game series.
The Cubs trail the Nashville Sounds by 7.5 games for first place in the
PCL American Northern Division.
TODAY'S STARTER: Les
Walrond
will make his 22nd start for
CUBS VS. REDBIRDS:
The Cubs are 2-7 against
FIRST TIME:
Geovany Soto
is the first
DIVISION WOES:
The Cubs have a winning record
against every division (37-23 vs. American South, 9-7 vs. Pacific North and 11-5
vs. Pacific South) except their own, where the Cubs are 13-23 vs. the American
North.
HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE:
PACKED HOUSE:
LEADER: Geovany Soto
leads the league with a .357 batting average and .640 slugging percentage.
The only Cub to lead the league in batting average was
Roosevelt Brown (.346, 2001).
Two Cubs, Karl Rhodes (.602,
1993) and Micah Franklin (.655,
1998) have led their league in slugging.
If the season ended today, Soto's .357 batting average would be third
all-time in Iowa Cubs' history behind
Derrick White (.363, 1998) and one point behind
Roosevelt Brown (.358, 1998).
Soto enters play today one off the league lead in RBI.
The last Cub to lead the league in RBI was
Eddie Zambrano with 115 in 1993.
SCOREBOARD WATCHING:
The Nashville Sounds have a magic number to clinch the PCL American Northern
Division of nine with 17 games to play, while the Cubs have 16 contests
remaining.
STREAKERS:
Matt
Craig
rides a 14 game hit streak over which time he is 21-54 (.389) with five doubles,
a triple, two home runs, 11 runs scored and 15 RBI....
Geovany Soto
has reached base safely in 19 straight games.
Over his 19 game on-base streak, he's 32-73 (.438) with nine doubles, a
triple, five home runs, 28 RBI and 17 runs scored...Carlos
Rojas has hit safely in seven straight games and 12 of his last 13.
In his last seven games, Rojas is hitting .346 (9 H/26 AB) with a double
and two RBI.
ON THIS DATE:
In 2006, Eric Patterson homered off
R.A. Dickey, then of
CUBS RECORDS:
The 2007 Iowa Cubs lead the league in both runs scored and home runs.
The last time
LONGBALL PRODUCTION:
The Cubs have hit
156 home runs this season (82 solo) which have accounted for 266 runs (2.08 runs
per game on 1.22 homers per game). In 2006, the Cubs hit 120 homers (76 solo)
which accounted for 185 runs (1.28 runs per game on .83 home runs per game). The
Cubs have homered in 87 of their 128 games.
The Cubs are 31-16 when they go deep at home and 22-18 when homering on
the road.
UPCOMING PROBABLE STARTERS
Date | Time | Opponent | Cubs Starter | Opponent Starter |
Sunday, August 19 | 1:05 p.m. | Memphis | LH Les Walrond (9-4, 5.05) | RH Mike Parisi (7-10, 5.12) |
Monday, August 20 | 7:05 p.m. | Memphis | RH Kevin Hart (3-1, 3.68) | RH Mike Smith (10-12, 4.79) |
Tuesday, August 21 | 12:05 p.m. | Memphis | RH Sean Gallagher (3-1, 2.05) | LH Randy Keisler (8-9, 4.53) |
Wednesday, August 22 | 7:00 p.m. | @ New Orleans | LH J.R. Mathes (10-7, 5.19) | RH Philip Humber (10-9, 4.66) |
Thursday, August 23 | 7:00 p.m. | @ New Orleans | RH Juan Mateo (2-3, 4.26) | RH Mike Pelfrey (3-6, 4.16) |
Friday, August 24 | 7:00 p.m. | @ New Orleans | LH Les Walronds | LH Jason Vargas |