Baseball in the Daytime: 8-3-07

The bigs kick off the weekend with only one afternoon match today, and it's the October-hungry Cubbies of Chicago hosting the non-gay New York team known as the Metropolitans. Fondling the rosin bag for the National-League-East-leading Mets is none other than Orlando Hernandez. He'll face the 14-7 Carlos Zambrano, who's club finds themselves knotted with the Brew Crew for first in the NL Central.



El Duque boasts a 3-0 record since the All-Star break while the wily Zambrano has earned four victories since. In the non-pitching department, the hot bat of former Kansas City Royal Ruben Gotay and infield help of former Minnesota Twin/Florida Marlin Luis Castillo should help fill some of the void left by the ailing Carlos Beltran.

Catch this matchup at 1:20 Central on the old standby WGN, or see for yourself if it's on any of them new-fangled satellite doohickeys. I'm too lazy and it's time to play ball.

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