Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
September 08, 2004
Downs from the Top

The Cubs have fallen out of first place in the race for the NL Wild Card. They were shut out by Scott Downs, a former Cub who has had a totally unremarkable career. Before tonight he had never had a compelete game. He only averaged 5.0 innings in his 27 previous starts, earning a 5.99 ERA. But tonight, he took advantage of a cold wind blowing in to limit the Cubs to five hits (all singles) and one walk. Two errors in the 8th led to three unearned runs, but the damage had been done. At the moment, Houston sits atop the NL wild card race.


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