Helluva start to the Milwaukee series. Lilly dueled Sabathia in a game that neither owned the outcome. Lilly looked good until the sixth inning, his last, when back-to-back homers and an RBI double stuck a fork in him. He had been cruising with a 2-0 lead thanks to a Soriano double and stolen base that led to a Lee RBI in the first as well as a Soriano homer in the third.
CC looked a little fatigued. The Brewer ace didn't have it all going for him, but he battled. The game seesawed in the sixth and seventh before the Cubs plated two in the ninth and Marmol got a save to end it.
Game balls to Soriano for being all over CC and to Reed Johnson, whose hard slide at second disrupted an almost sure thing double play on a Lee grounder with one out that resulted in a 4-3 Cub lead. Guadin has to get a mention as well for striking out the side in the eighth.
It was a good victory away and put the Cubs ahead in the division by 2.
Big Z is sitting on a 1-0 lead with the Cubs batting in the fifth. Another nail biter tonight?
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