The Chicago Cubs and the Chicago White Sox both ended streaks Tuesday night. For the White Sox, it was good news. For the Cubs, not so much.
The White Sox beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-1 to end a 9-game road losing streak. Mark Buehrle led the team, giving up the single run and six hits in eight innings. He also got the 1000th strike-out of his career.
Jermaine Dye hit his seventh home run in his last eight games. He has driven in 17 runs in that time.
The White Sox lead baseball in home runs in interleague play, with 285 since interleague play began in 1997.
The Sox 9-game road losing streak is over. Three of the games that they lost during that streak were at Wrigley Field over the week-end as the Cubs were working on their home winning streak. It was broken at 14 last night when the Baltimore Orioles beat the Cubs 7-5.
The Cubs, champions at coming from behind, didn’t manage it last night. Down by 7-1, they narrowed the Oriole’s lead when Jim Edmonds hit a three-run homer. Later, Fukudome had a solo homer to bring the score to 7-5.
Then, in the bottom of the ninth inning, the Cubs loaded the bases with no out. And you would be pulling for them to do what they have done so often: win a game that they had been losing. But no luck last night. With three on and no out, George Sherrill struck out three in a row, ending the game and the winning streak.
In the course of the game, the Oriole’s Brian Roberts got three hits to reach a career 1000 hits.
The Cubs still have the best record in baseball. At 48-29, they are in first place in the National League Central Division, 3.5 games ahead of the St. Louis Cardinals.
In fact, both Chicago teams are still in first place. The White Sox lead the American League Central Division with a 42-34 record, 1.5 games over the Minnesota Twins.
It has been three years since the White Sox won a World Series, 100 years since the Cubs won a World Series and 102 years since the Cubs and Sox faced each other for the world championship.l
Tags: Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox
June 25, 2008 at 11:29 am
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