July 3, 2008
Cubs 6, Giants 5: Playing Keep-away with Dempster
By
Zeldink
Posted at 2:32 pm
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cubs (51-34) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 0 |
| Giants (37-48) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 1 |
W: Marmol (2-3)
Ryan Dempster hasn’t won a game on the road for all of 2008. With a start where he pitched 6 innings and allowed only 2 runs, you might think he would have broken that string. Especially if you knew that the Cubs scored 6.
Alas, Carlos Marmol swooped in for the vulture win. Marmol has struggled lately, so putting him in the game in the 7th with the Cubs sporting a spiffy new 3 run lead might have seemed like a good time for him to work some things out. But it wasn’t.
Mike Fontenot gave Marmol the vulture win with his go-ahead homer, leaving Dempster to stew in the dugout, happy that the team won but wishing, just wishing, that he could finally win on the road.