We Need A Hit!

Let's examine the past week for our beloved Cubbies... If history tells us anything its that the best the Cubbies have is still not good enough. Rookie, Randy Wells, has pitched 11 scoreless innings over his past 2 starts, and has precisely zero wins to show for it. Ted Lily (for whom it is required we score 4 runs to get a victory) came through letting up his usual 3 runs and suffered a loss because Cubby blue could not cross the plate at all against Joel Pineiro and were fortunate to get only 3 hits. They follow that up with 6 hit one run affair against a pitcher making his return after being on the DL for five weeks.

No one is hitting well right now, but Mike Fontenot is batting a dismal .207 even though he ended an 0-for-17 drought on Tuesday by getting a double, and is 2-for-32 in his past 10 games. He is supposed to be our "table setter," the man whose job it is to either get on base, or move runners along for our RBI guys to bring them in. The Cubs had the most productive offense in the N.L. scoring 855 runs and second only to Texas in the entire league one year ago. We traded our table setter from last year, Mark DeRosa. Lets do a quick check in with our favorite Cleveland Indian: Wednesday DeRosa went 3-4 with two runs scored and two RBI's not too shabby. He has 26 RBI's in his first 38 games. Our top RBI guy (also our leadoff man) comes in just under that at 25 (Soriano) and the guys that are batting in the RBI slots in the lineup (Lee, Bradley) have hit 18 and and 9 respectively. We need some more production all the way up and down our lineup.

The season is still young but we are at a cross road. We can turn our season around and reclaim the N.L. Central, or we can pack up and go home. Aramis is about half way through his DL stint, and we can not say that we will be ok when he gets back. Someone needs to step up and take over. We need a hit! Lets Go CUBBIES!!!