The Chicago Cubs narrowly defeated the San Francisco Giants yesterday at AT&T Park with the Cubs coming out on top 8 to 6. It was a solid match that aficionados with Cubs game tickets won’t soon forget. Not much compares to America’s Pastime so stock up on cheap baseball tickets and see all the fun live.
Cubs pitcher Ryan Dempster (3.78 ERA) got the win, while Tim Lincecum (3.41 ERA) took the loss for the Giants. Ryan Dempster went 6.2 solid innings for the Cubs, allowed 8 hits, no home runs and 3 earned runs with 2 walks and 3 strikeouts. Also pitching for the Cubs was Andrew Cashner (5.46), Sean Marshall (2.45), and Carlos Marmol (2.75). The Giants’s starter Tim Lincecum went 4 innings, allowed 8 hits, one home run and 6 earned runs with one walk and 4 strikeouts. Santiago Casilla (2.32), Guillermo Mota (3.50), and Ramon Ramirez (4.05) also pitched for the Giants. With the win, Dempster’s record goes to 10-8, while Lincecum is at 11-6.
In addition to the 8 runs, the Cubs scored 14 hits and committed 3 errors. Aramis Ramirez led the Cubs in hitting with 3 hits, followed by Koyie Hill’s 2 hits, and Kosuke Fukudome with 2. The Giants’s Buster Posey had quite a day at the plate, batting in a stunning 4 runs! Pablo Sandoval and Buster Posey tied for most hits for the Giants with 3, followed by Juan Uribe with 2 hits. Andres Torres could not get much going at the plate as he left 5 runners on base. The Giants scored 6 runs, 14 hits and no errors.
Umpiring duties were performed by Paul Nauert, Ted Barrett, Tony Randazzo and Brian Gorman. There were 35,389 Giants ticket holders in attendance at AT&T Park.