Prior beat early, Cubs unable to rebound

By Justin Albers
basketballss132002@yahoo.com
INDIANAPOLIS- Just another sad performance from a guy that has never lived up to his full potential. Mark Prior was pitching for the Cubs on Thursday afternoon, and he was definately dissapointing. Prior went just 3 innings and gave up 6 runs during that time.
The Cubs looked good in the first inning as Pierre got on with a double, then was moved over on a sacrifice bunt by Theriot, then scored on a sacrafice fly by Rameriz. The Cubs led 1-0 after the top of the first inning but the Brewers added 4 runs in the bottom of the 1st. The Brewers built up an 8-1 lead before the Cubs decided to wake up. In the 5th inning Aramis Rameriz stayed hot with a 2 run home run. Then in the 7th inning a hit by Phil Nevin drove in a run to make the score 8-4. In the 8th inning backup catcher Henry Blanco hit a 2 run shot to cut the deficit to 2 runs. The Cubs had a chance again in the 9th when they got 2 guys on base with no outs, but they were unable to do anything and they lost the game 8-6.
Even though the game ended in the loss it was happy to see that the Cubs at least had some effort and cared enough to come back. If they could have gotten a better performance from their starter then it might have ended with a different result.