Chicago Cubs Photos & Video:Walker`s slam lifts Bucs past Cubs: The first game, Mike Quade as full time manager of the Chicago Cubs seemed all too familiar. For Cubs fans, anyway.
3.6Loss Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday looked like a lot of losses atWrigley Field over the years with other skippers in the dugout.
ubs looked comfortable with a 2-0 lead, and Ryan Dempster on the mound. Suddenly, a couple of walks and two shots off the bat changed everything and ruined the opening day.
Dempstergave a Grand Slam Neil Walker in the fifth - after two walks - and bothrun Homer Andrew McCutchen in the seventh after two outings.
Dempster was disappointed by "Grand Slam" Walker steps of 3.2. McCutchen Drive really put the Cubs in the hole.
"Twoquick exits and the guy hits the project and McCutchen strikes theball," said Dempster threw 114 pitches in his 6 3.2 innings, allowingsix hits and six points with four walks. "Ifelt strong, but could not do the job. _ When it`s 4-2, and you`reright in the game, and abandon those who work supplements, they usuallyend up with you put. "
Quadewent incognito on the way to Wrigley Field on Friday in a hat andjacket while riding SkyTrain from downtown, it took approximately 8 hours,he said he was sitting quietly at the binding of the car, head down to that there was no chance acknowledged that he wants to know the atmosphere per day.
During the season, he will be within walking distance of the park. And after games like Friday when the Cubs lost despite getting 11 hits, he will take a guide to have my thoughts. Chicago has also left 10 on base
"Webeat two hits today, and what happens," said Quade, who has managedmore than 2,000 minor league games before his chance at the highestlevel, first as a conductor for 37 temporary games last season end.
"If we played shortly and shortly row and poor game, I`d be more disappointed.
Baby Walker, a good actor and McCutcheon, who he is. We need to see how to do better. "
Onthe back of a 2-0 Pirates, Ryan Doumit started the fifth with a singleand Dempster walked around the two victims winner Kevin Correia,bringing in Walker.
Cubs cut it to 6-3,Kosuke Fukudome when hit RBI single to score Barney, which should beachieved when pop fell between the plate and mound. Aramis Ramirez flied to the dog with two riders.
Joel Hanrahan pitched the ninth for the Pirates, working around a walk and infield hit to save.
"Theyhave a good young team. In a sense, they can not do it, but they havethe pieces there," said Ramirez, who played parts of six seasons withthe Pirates before they sold Cubs in 2003.
"We have the ball. We have received many complaints. We just did not have more hits or strikes base."
Withgames starting with light rain on the 41 degree days, the Cubs wereunearned in the first, thanks to some delicate Fielding in the Piratesthird baseman Pedro Alvarez. It could not happen at Ground hard Starlin Castro, who was considered one of the infield. Thenhe grabbed a bouncer Marlon Byrd and threw the world over the headbaseman Lyle Overbay that Castro visited his home, sliding head first.
Carlos Pena got his first RBI with the Cubs in the third. After three singles, he struck Grounder, who made it 2-0. Penasigned as a free agent after spending 4 years in Tampa, and flashedhis glove, making some good throws the nut low on the damp lawn.
NOTES: Both teams wore the memory of a famous member of the organization, who died last season. Cubs wore number 10 for the ex-baseman and broadcaster Ron Santo third popular. Pirates were a patch for Chuck Tanner, who managed to Bucs for 9 years and led them to a World Series title in 1979. _ Cubs held a bit of privacy in honor of Santo and for victims of Japanese earthquake and tsunami. _ Santo son and daughter led the singing during the stretch run seventh. _ Fans cheered when the sun makes an appearance in the place of the ninth session. _ Dempster is 0-4 in his last four starts against the Pirates, dating from May of last year. He has a 7.23 ERA in those games.
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