Losing Ugly...

The Cubs lose to the Pirates tonight, and there's plenty of blame to go around. The Cubs failed to score with 1 out and the bases loaded, with Aramis Ramirez and Derrek Lee both looking bad in their at bats. Jerry Hairston broke the wrong way on what turned out to be the game winning double and Carlos Zambrano gave up 3 homers, two to catcher David Ross, who the Dodgers let go because they preferred Paul Bako. Not to be outdone, Dusty Baker continued working towards his goal of leading the league in questionable managerial moves. He continues to believe that because Mike Remlinger is a left handed pitcher, he can get left handed hitters out. Remlinger came in a gave up the tying run, then in the following inning was left in the game to face Rob Machoviak and Darryl Ward, both of whom hit the ball hard, and scored later in the inning when Chad Fox was brought on to finish the job that Rem had started. Also, with the score tied in the top of the 8th, Baker chose to pinch hit for Jason DuBois with Todd Hollandsworth because, well, seeing as how DuBois had homered already in the game, the only reason I can think of is that Dusty was playing the goddamn lefty/righty matchup again. When are managers going to realize that sometimes it's okay to go against the "percentages"? In this case, I might have considered the fact that DuBois is a career .300 hitter to Hollandsworth's .260.