2008 Chicago Cubs season

2008 Chicago Cubs
2008 Chicago Cubs
National League Central champions
League	National League
Division	Central
Ballpark	Wrigley Field
City	Chicago
Record	97–64 (.595)
Divisional place	1st
Owners	Tribune Company
General managers	Jim Hendry
Managers	Lou Piniella
Television	CSN Chicago; WGN America; WGN-TV; CSN Chicago Plus (CLTV); WCIU-TV ; (Len Kasper, Bob Brenly, Cory Provus)
Radio	WGN (AM) 720 ; (Pat Hughes, Ron Santo, Cory Provus)
Stats	ESPN.com; Baseball Reference

The 2008 Chicago Cubs season was the 137th season of the Chicago Cubs franchise, the 133rd in the National League and the 93rd at Wrigley Field. The season began at home on March 31 against the Milwaukee Brewers. The Cubs were champions of the National League Central for the second year in a row, accumulating 97 regular season wins—the most since 1945. It was the first time since 1908 that the Cubs made postseason appearances in consecutive seasons.^[1]

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At the All-Star break in July, the Cubs led the NL Central and were tied with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim for the best record in the major leagues.^[2] They tied a National League record with eight players selected to the All-Star team.^[3]

On September 20, the Cubs clinched the NL Central championship with a 5–4 win over the St. Louis Cardinals.^[4] Despite their regular season success, the team did not advance past the first round of the playoffs; they were swept 3–0 by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLDS.

Lou Piniella, in his second year as the Cubs' manager, won the National League's Manager of the Year Award in 2008. In addition, catcher Geovany Soto won the 2008 National League Rookie of the Year Award.^[1]

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Team	W	L	Pct.	GB	Home	Road
Chicago Cubs	97	64	.602	—	55‍–‍26	42‍–‍38
Milwaukee Brewers	90	72	.556	7½	49‍–‍32	41‍–‍40
Houston Astros	86	75	.534	11	47‍–‍33	39‍–‍42
St. Louis Cardinals	86	76	.531	11½	46‍–‍35	40‍–‍41
Cincinnati Reds	74	88	.457	23½	43‍–‍38	31‍–‍50
Pittsburgh Pirates	67	95	.414	30½	39‍–‍42	28‍–‍53

2008 National League record v t e Source: MLB Standings Grid – 2008
Team	AZ	ATL	CHC	CIN	COL	FLA	HOU	LAD	MIL	NYM	PHI	PIT	SD	SF	STL	WAS	AL
Arizona	–	3–5	2–4	2–4	15–3	2–7	4–2	8–10	2–5	3–3	3–4	4–3	10–8	11–7	3–4	4–2	6–9
Atlanta	5–3	–	0–6	3–3	4–3	10–8	3–3	4–2	3–6	11–7	4–14	2–5	5–1	2–5	2–5	6–12	8–7
Chicago	4–2	6–0	–	8–7	5–1	4–3	8–9	5–2	9–7	4–2	3–4	14–4	5–2	4–3	9–6	3–3	6–9
Cincinnati	4–2	3–3	7–8	–	1–5	6–2	3–12	1–7	10–8	3–4	3–5	6–9	4–3	5–1	5–10	4–3	9–6
Colorado	3–15	3–4	1–5	5–1	–	5–3	3–3	8–10	4–3	3–6	0–5	5–2	9–9	11–7	3–4	4–3	7–8
Florida	7–2	8–10	3–4	2–6	3–5	–	4–2	3–4	5–1	8–10	10–8	3–2	4–2	3–3	2–5	14–3	5–10
Houston	2–4	3–3	9–8	12–3	3–3	2–4	–	4–3	7–8	5–2	3–4	8–8	3–3	7–1	7–8	4–2	7–11
Los Angeles	10–8	2–4	2–5	7–1	10–8	4–3	3–4	–	4–2	3–4	4–4	5–2	11–7	9–9	2–4	3–3	5–10
Milwaukee	5–2	6–3	7–9	8–10	3–4	1–5	8–7	2–4	–	2–4	1–5	14–1	4–3	6–0	10–5	6–2	7–8
New York	3–3	7–11	2–4	4–3	6–3	10–8	2–5	4–3	4–2	–	11–7	4–3	2–5	5–1	4–3	12–6	9–6
Philadelphia	4–3	14–4	4–3	5–3	5–0	8–10	4–3	4–4	5–1	7–11	–	4–2	4–2	3–3	5–4	12–6	4–11
Pittsburgh	3–4	5–2	4–14	9–6	2–5	2–3	8–8	2–5	1–14	3–4	2–4	–	3–4	4–2	10–7	3–4	6–9
San Diego	8–10	1–5	2–5	3–4	9–9	2–4	3–3	7–11	3–4	5–2	2–4	4–3	–	5–13	1–6	5–1	3–15
San Francisco	7–11	5–2	3–4	1–5	7–11	3–3	1–7	9–9	0–6	1–5	3–3	2–4	13–5	–	4–3	7–0	6–12
St. Louis	4–3	5–2	6–9	10–5	4–3	5–2	8–7	4–2	5–10	3–4	4–5	7–10	6–1	3–4	–	5–1	7–8
Washington	2–4	12–6	3–3	3–4	3–4	3–14	2–4	3–3	2–6	6–12	6–12	4–3	1–5	0–7	1–5	–	8–10

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Los Angeles	0	0	0	0	4	0	1	1	1	7	8	1
Chicago	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	9	1
WP: Derek Lowe (1–0) LP: Ryan Dempster (0–1) Home runs: LAD: James Loney (1), Manny Ramírez (1), Russell Martin (1) CHC: Mark DeRosa (1) Attendance: 42,099

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Los Angeles	0	5	0	0	1	0	1	2	1	10	12	0
Chicago	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	3	8	4
WP: Chad Billingsley (1–0) LP: Carlos Zambrano (0–1) Home runs: LAD: Manny Ramírez (2) CHC: None Attendance: 42,136

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Chicago	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	8	1
Los Angeles	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	X	3	6	0
WP: Hiroki Kuroda (1–0) LP: Rich Harden (0–1) Sv: Jonathan Broxton (1) Home runs: CHC: None LAD: None Attendance: 56,000

2008 Chicago Cubs season

Regular season

Game log

Season standings

National League Central

Record vs. opponents

Rally songs

Playoffs

NLDS vs. Los Angeles Dodgers

Game 1, October 1

Game 2, October 2

Game 3, October 4

Roster

Player stats

Batting

Pitching

2007 post-season changes

Trades

Free agent acquisitions

Players lost to free agency

Other news

Farm system

References

External links

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Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
Derrek Lee	155	623	181	.291	20	90
Alfonso Soriano	109	453	127	.280	29	75
Ryan Theriot	149	580	178	.307	1	38
Aramis Ramírez	149	554	160	.289	27	111
Mark DeRosa	149	505	144	.285	21	87
Kosuke Fukudome	150	501	129	.257	10	58
Geovany Soto	141	494	141	.285	23	86
Reed Johnson	109	333	101	.303	6	50
Jim Edmonds	85	250	64	.256	19	49
Mike Fontenot	119	243	74	.305	9	40
Ronny Cedeño	99	216	58	.269	2	28
Henry Blanco	58	120	35	.292	3	12
Daryle Ward	89	102	22	.216	4	17
Félix Pie	43	83	20	.241	1	10
Micah Hoffpauir	33	73	25	.342	2	8
Matt Murton	19	40	10	.250	0	6
Eric Patterson	13	38	9	.237	1	7
Casey McGehee	9	24	4	.167	0	5
Koyie Hill	10	21	2	.095	0	1
Pitcher Totals	161	335	68	.203	6	33
Team Totals	161	5588	1552	.278	184	811

Player	W	L	ERA	G	GS	SV	IP	R	ER	BB	K
José Ascanio	0	0	7.94	6	0	0	5.2	5	5	4	3
Neal Cotts	0	2	4.29	50	0	0	35.2	17	17	13	43
Ryan Dempster	17	6	2.96	33	33	0	206.2	75	68	76	187
Scott Eyre	2	0	7.15	19	0	0	11.1	9	9	4	14
Chad Fox	0	1	5.40	3	0	0	3.1	2	2	3	1
Sean Gallagher	3	4	4.45	12	10	0	58.2	31	29	22	49
Chad Gaudin	4	2	6.26	24	0	0	27.1	20	19	10	27
Ángel Guzmán	0	0	5.59	6	1	0	9.2	6	6	4	10
Rich Harden	5	1	1.77	12	12	0	71.0	15	14	30	89
Kevin Hart	2	2	6.51	21	0	0	27.2	24	20	18	23
Rich Hill	1	0	4.12	5	5	0	19.2	9	9	18	15
Bob Howry	7	5	5.35	72	0	1	70.2	44	42	13	59
Jon Lieber	2	3	4.05	26	1	0	46.2	24	21	6	27
Ted Lilly	17	9	4.09	34	34	0	204.2	97	93	64	184
Carlos Mármol	2	4	2.68	82	0	7	87.1	30	26	41	114
Jason Marquis	11	9	4.53	29	28	0	167.0	88	84	70	91
Sean Marshall	3	5	3.86	34	7	1	65.1	29	28	23	58
Carmen Pignatiello	0	0	13.50	2	0	0	0.2	1	1	2	0
Jeff Samardzija	1	0	2.28	26	0	1	27.2	7	7	15	25
Randy Wells	0	0	0.00	3	0	0	4.1	0	0	2	1
Kerry Wood	5	4	3.26	65	0	34	66.1	25	24	18	84
Michael Wuertz	1	1	3.63	45	0	0	44.2	23	18	20	30
Carlos Zambrano	14	6	3.91	30	30	0	188.2	88	82	72	130
Team Totals	97	64	3.87	161	161	44	1450.2	669	624	548	1264

November 12, 2007	To Detroit Tigers Jacque Jones	To Chicago Cubs Omar Infante
November 13, 2007	To Minnesota Twins Craig Monroe	To Chicago Cubs Clay Rapada
December 4, 2007	To Atlanta Braves Will Ohman Omar Infante	To Chicago Cubs José Ascanio
December 6, 2007	To Tampa Bay Rays Cash considerations	To Chicago Cubs Tim Lahey
January 5, 2008	To New York Mets Ángel Pagán	To Chicago Cubs Ryan Meyers Corey Coles
July 8, 2008	To Oakland Athletics Sean Gallagher Matt Murton Eric Patterson Josh Donaldson	To Chicago Cubs Rich Harden Chad Gaudin