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Huge Weekend for Chicago MLB Baseball Teams — Cubs & White Sox Both Sweep Weekend Series

Monday, April 26th, 2010 | Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, MLB, Sports | No Comments

WOW — what a great weekend for both Chicago MLB baseball teams.  Both the Cubs and White Sox pulled off weekend sweeps to get back on track after a slow start to the 2010 MLB schedule.

The Cubs outscored the Brewers 25-4 in their 3-game weekend series at Miller Park in Milwaukee.  The Cubs bats finally came to life and the pitching was just as impressive.  Kosuke Fukudome and Tyler Colvin each hit 2 home runs in the series and Ryan Theriot racked up 9 hits in the series (with 14 hits in his last 5 games) to raise his batting average to .329.  Ryan Dempster, Ted Lilly and Randy Wells picked up the wins and Carlos Zambrano made his 1st appearance out of the bullpen in Saturday’s win (although he did give up an earned run).

The Cubs are now 9-10.  They trail the 1st place St. Louis Cardinals by 2 and one half 5 games in the National League Central Division and open up a 7-game homestand against the Washington Nationals and the Arizona Diamondbacks.  If Carlos Silva and the Cubs win tonight at Wrigley Field, the Cubs will be back at .500 with a 10-10 record.

The White Sox, meanwhile, took 3 straight games from the Seattle Mariners on home runs in their final at-bat in each game at U.S. Cellular Field over the weekend.  In Friday’s 7-6 win, Andruw Jones’ 2nd home run of the game on his birthday gave the Sox the walk-off win in the bottom of the 9th inning.  Saturday’s win was even more thrilling.  After Bobby Jenks surrendered 2 runs in the top of the 9th inning in a 2-2 tie, the Sox found themselves in a big hole.  But with one out, Paul Konerko hit his 6th home run of the season to get the Sox within 1.  Then with 2 outs, Carlos Quentin walked to set up Alex Rios’ game-winning, walk-off home run to deep left field that gave the White Sox the 5-4.  Paul Konerko followed up his Saturday performance with another big home run in the bottom of the 8th inning that broke a 2-2.  3 straight days – 3 straight game-winning home runs for the White Sox in their last at-bat.  Incredible!

The White Sox are now 8-11.  They trail the 1st place Minnesota Twins by 5 games in the American League Central Division and start a 6-game road trip against the Rangers in Texas and the Yankees in New York.

These 2 teams are far from being playoff teams right now, but more games like this and we could be seeing a “Red Line Series” in Chicago very very soon…

Tags: Alex Rios, Andruw Jones, Kosuke Fukudome, Paul Konerko, Ryan Theriot, Tyler Colvin