Cubs stay hot with win over Rockies
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06/01/2008 - Chicago, IL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Aramis Ramirez scored and knocked in a run during a 3-for-3 effort at the plate to highlight the Chicago Cubs' seventh straight victory, a 5-3 triumph over the slumping Colorado Rockies.
Jim Edmonds doubled, tripled and drove in a two runs to help Chicago improve to a league-best 36-21. Alfonso Soriano slammed a solo home run for the victors.
Sean Gallagher (3-1) fanned eight Rockies on his way to the win, allowing three runs on six hits in 5 2/3 innings. Kerry Wood worked a perfect ninth for his 14th save of the season.
The Rockies dropped their 12th consecutive road game and seventh straight overall. Starter Ubaldo Jimenez (1-6) was credited with four runs -- three earned -- on seven hits and three walks in his five-inning loss.
Colorado's struggling offense tallied eight hits with Ian Stewart, Yorvit Torrealba and Omar Quintanilla each knocking in a run.
Ramirez's run-scoring single in the home first gave the Cubs a 1-0 lead, which held up until the Rockies' two-run fourth.
Garrett Atkins and Seth Smith opened the frame with a pair of hits and were brought home on Stewart's single and Quintanilla's sacrifice fly.
The Cubs took the lead back in their next at-bat. Edmonds got a hold of a Jimenez offering and laced it over the left fielder's glove to knock in Ramirez, and Geovany Soto scampered home on a Stewart fielding error at second base.
A two-out, bases-loaded walk to Edmonds forced in another Chicago run in the fifth, but Torrealba brought the run back with an RBI double the next inning.
Soriano added an insurance run with a one-out solo blast to left in the sixth, and the Cubs' bullpen made the two-run cushion stand the rest of the way.
Game Notes
The Cubs have now won 11 of their last 12 matchups at Wrigley Field, including eight in a row, and are a superb 26-8 mark at home this season, their best start at home since 1918...Colorado is 0-7 thus far on a 10-game road trip and have dropped 17 of its last 19 outings as the visitor. The Rockies are a woeful 8-23 on the road this season...On Monday, the Rockies head to Los Angeles for three games with the Dodgers, while the Cubs also head to the West Coast for a three-game set with San Diego.
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Villanova [18-9 (7-7), RPI: 21, SOS: 5] Pounded Rutgers to get back to .500. If Cats can get their last two (at UConn, vs. Syracuse), that should be enough with strong computer numbers and a host of wins away from The Pavilion. The Cats have beaten Texas and swept the Big 5 (never easy in Philly), but have a couple of losses to bubble teams (Xavier, Drexel), too. I still think they'll be OK, possibly even at 8-8.
Syracuse [20-8 (9-5), RPI: 53, SOS: 62] History says 10 wins will be plenty, but it might be hard for the Orange to get that last one with a final two vs. G'town, which is trying to win the league title, and at Villanova, which will be desperate for a W. The relative lack of nonconference heft and the weak computer numbers are still concerns, but the Orange have won four in a row and got a very, very big win at Providence on Saturday.
DePaul [16-12 (8-7), RPI: 54, SOS: 18] Beat Cincy and should get past South Florida to get to 9-7, but then what? They have beaten Kansas and Cal (right after the DeVon Hardin injury) earlier this season, but also have lost to Bradley and Purdue, among others. They'll likely need a couple of BE tourney wins, too, but we'll see ...
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