All it took was a little home-cookin’, Friendly Confines style, for Chicago Cubs baseball to regain its footing as the National League’s dominant team.
That’s right. I just used dominant team and Chicago Cubs in the same sentence.
And meant it.
Following a Tampa Bay Devil Rays sweep and one day removed from picking the stingers out of their backsides, the Cubs rebounded by putting together a stinging of their own.
How sweep it was.
The Chicago Cubs won by a little (4-3 on Friday), exploded for a lot (nine-run inning on Saturday) and finished just right, coasting to a 7-1 win on Sunday. That it came against the cross-town White Sox didn’t hurt either.
The sweep was so exasperating for the rivals , it almost had White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen speechless about Wrigley Field and its occupants. That was after Outrageous Ozzie claimed rats the size of pigs dwell in the bowels of the National League’s oldest park and dismissing Jim Edmonds two-home-run, same-inning effort on Saturday.
”I’m not going to promote a guy hitting .218 [actually .238],” Guillen said. ”He just had a good day. Jim is not going to scare me. I’d rather have Jim Edmonds out there than [Alfonso] Soriano. I’ll pitch to him again.”
Funny thing, Ozzie did have a chance to pitch to Edmonds in the seventh inning of Sunday night’s game, but elected to intentionally walk him instead. For the record, Edmonds is hitting .311 with four home runs and 16 RBIs since joining the Cubs in May.
If Manny can get by being Manny, then Ozzie can keep being Ozzie.
Me, I’m just happy with the sweep - pig-sized rats or not.
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