Sox sweep Cubs at the Cell
Fueled by home runs from Carlos Quentin, Brian Anderson and Jim Thome and energized by the six-hit pitching of Mark Buehrle, the Sox completed their first-ever U.S. Cellular sweep of the Cubs with a 5-1 victory.
- Hardball: Fans fight in stands • Cubs, Sox widgets
- From the Cubicle: The Game 3 series finale
Piniella ejected for 1st time in over a year
Cubs manager Lou Piniella was ejected Sunday for the first time since his dirt-kicking episode last season. It happened in the second inning, when he came onto the field to protest a ruling on an appeal of a called ball on a check swing by Joe Crede.
Who was the Game 3 star?
Who was the player of the game on Sunday?
Carlos Quentin (213 responses)
7.1%
Brian Anderson (193 responses)
6.4%
Jim Thome (71 responses)
2.4%
Mark Buehrle (1745 responses)
58.2%
Sean Marshall (68 responses)
2.3%
The umpires (708 responses)
23.6%
- 2998 total responses (Results not scientific)
Who was the Game 2 star?
Who was the player of the game on Saturday
Jermaine Dye (114 responses)
21.2%
Derrek Lee (147 responses)
27.4%
Carlos Quentin (211 responses)
39.3%
Matt Thornton (65 responses)
12.1%
- 537 total responses (Results not scientific)
Who was the Game 1 star?
Who was the player of the game on Friday?
Nick Swisher (1020 responses)
45.5%
Orlando Cabrera (131 responses)
5.8%
Carlos Quentin (181 responses)
8.1%
Jermaine Dye (442 responses)
19.7%
Jose Contreras (79 responses)
3.5%
Jim Edmonds (it's his birthday) (390 responses)
17.4%
- 2243 total responses (Results not scientific)
Can you be both?
A Chicago Tribune editorial says you can't be both a Cubs and a Sox fan. What do you say?
Yes, you can (1165 responses)
28.5%
No, you can't (2924 responses)
71.5%
- 4089 total responses (Results not scientific)
The Chicago baseball question
The Cubs-Sox series is a little more than a week away -- and the question has to be asked: Cub fan or Sox fan?
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- White Sox look forward to resuming AL competition
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- Mike Downey: Wait, Kerry Wood is the healthy Cub?
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- Rick Morrissey: Labelling White Sox? Call 'em talented
- Cubs-White Sox series weighing on Piniella
- Piniella's tough love works for Gallagher
- Looking ahead: The Cubs-White Sox (regular) season finale
- Key at-bats, manager's decisions in Saturday's Cubs-White Sox game
- White Sox bullpen bails out Javier Vazquez
- Fred Mitchell: Pierzynski, White Sox laugh off Piniella's praise
- Phil Rogers: What if Fukudome had landed on South Side?
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- Swisher smacks grand slam, Sox beat Cubs
- Mike Downey: Smile returns to South Side merry man
- Scouting Game 2: Expect more the same from Sox
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- Rick Morrissey: Dempster bad outing the exception
- Guillen on coaching Cubs: 'Everybody has a price'
- Bob Verdi: City Series just might be prelude to Classic
- Cubs LF Patterson makes costly mistakes
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