Saturday, August 2, 2008

Lilly out duels Maholm

Paul Maholm loses for just the second time sine May 20th as the Cubs play "small ball" to beat the Pirates, 5-1. Ted Lilly picks up win number 11, striking out five in 6 1/3 innings while allowing one earned run. Maholm gave up five runs in six innings, allowing 10 base runners.

Fantasy Impact: Lilly and Maholm are nice number four starters on good baseball teams. Unfortunately for Pittsburgh, Maholm is the best they've got. Lilly settles in behind Carlos Zambrano, Rich Harden and Ryan Dempster in Chicago. As for fantasy play, these two are no better than number five guys on a good team.

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