Cubs 9 – Brewers 5: We’re going to officially sound like a fan, but, that’s what we are so… Opening Day was AWESOME. Just a spectacular atmosphere in the ballpark and an outstanding pregame for the day. We started our day by going to YakZies on Clark, that’s what you’re seeing to the right there. The XRT broadcast was outstanding and the area just felt like a giant tailgate-block-party. All of this comes with being a Cubs fan.
As it said right outside the stadium, it’s a way of life.
The ball game itself was just as great as the Wrigleyville area. The Cubs had the long ball rocking early as Xavier Nady made quite an impression on Cubs fans in his home debut. A three run homer in the 3rd inning had the Cubs out of the gate and they would never look back. Jeff Baker added on in the same inning with a two run bomb and the Brewers starter Doug Davis was chased just one out into the 4th.
The bats were just crushing with the wind blowing out to left. Aramis Ramirez got off the schnide with a blast of his own late in the game to put the final nail in the coffin.
Ryan Dempster had a fairly good start but we’d have like to seen him throw more strikes when he was pitching with a big lead. He only had one mistake all day and it was the three run homer to Braun. He tallied 6.1 and threw 114 pitches so it’ll be interesting to see Demp in his next start. The bullpen was flawless today. Samardzija, Russell and Marmol worked with only two baserunners between the three of them.
An excellent way to begin a homestand series with a division rival. Yes, we’re huge dorks and uploaded the stretch which was sung by the Ricketts and Go Cubs Go at the end of the game.
Go Cubs.
Here’s the stretch, too
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