It was nice to see Mark Prior finally get his first win of the season today. It wasn't the dominating Prior who earned no decision despite throwing hitless ball in his second-to-last start going into today's game, but a win is a win is a win.
Matt Murton collected two more hits, including a homer, nudging him closer to a .300 average which seemed out of reach at the end of June. He's batting .533 in August after hitting .360 in July, and has only one hitless game with 3 or more at-bats since the middle of June.
Let's just hope Murton isn't named Player of the Month. Cub hurlers have treated the pitching equivalent of that honor like a curse this year, as Greg Maddux went into a death spiral in May and Carlos Zambrano got hammered in his first August start. Still, one would have trouble finding another fifth-place team in the history books with two Pitchers of the Month through July.
With the Cub win, they remain 11 games behind Cincinnati in the Wild Card race. Stay tuned...
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