By Justin Albers
basketballss132002@yahoo.com
INDIANAPOLIS-The pitching stepped it up for the Cubs on Friday night, something they do not normally do. Rookie Juan Mateo went 5 innings for the Cubs, giving up 10 hits but only 2 runs. Then the bullpen came in with some quality innings from Bob Howry and Michael Wuertz. Usually it is the Cubs pitching that loses them games, but not this time.
The Cubs only managed five hits against Jeff Suppan and Jason Isringhausen, 2 of them coming from youngster Freddie Bynum, who got his first start of the season. Aramis Rameriz recorded his 30th double of the season, and Angel Pagan came up with 2 more hits but it was to no avail. The only time the Cubs really threatened was in the 8th inning when they had 2 guys and and 2 outs. They never had a runner on 3rd, and never really got close to scoring. The Cardinals runs came in the 3rd and the 5th innings when Scott Rolen hit a sacrafice fly and Juan Encarnacion hit an RBI single.
The loss marks the the Cubs 6th in their last 8 games, after they started the month of August 9-6. The Cubs have a losing month going for the 4th time in the 5 month season. They will play the Cardinals again today at 1:20 when Rich Hill will take on Cy Young candidate Chris Carpenter. On Sunday it will be Sean Marshall returning from the DL to face struggling Jeff Weaver of the Cardinals.
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