Late Night Box Score: Dodgers Sweep Cubs, Another Bad Century Begins

It seems appropriate that the Cubs season ended on an Alfonso Soriano check-swing. It reflected the Cubs' performance in the postseason: half-assed. It showed again Saturday night as the Cubs failed to produce any offense and lost to the Dodgers, 3-1, and were eliminated from the 2008 playoffs. Just like in Game Two, the Cubs fell behind early and didn't produce a run until the later innings and, even then, it wasn't enough. Rich Harden gave up three runs in 4 and a third innings. The Cubs bullpen held it down, but, once again, the offense was dreadful. The top five in the lineup were 5-for-20 and left ten on base. The 136 Million Dollar Man? Besides striking out to end the season, Soriano went 0-for-5 for the game and 1-for-14 for the series as a whole. If our math is correct (and forgive us if it's not at this late hour),... [read full story]