To start the month of May, a short two-game home series with the Chicago Cubs put out the same results in real life, a loss followed by a win. The Giants remain five games ahead of pace after 26 contests.
sim 18-8, actual 13-13
May 1 — sim L 4-1, actual L 4-3
May 2 — sim W 7-2, actual W 4-0
May 1: The Giants scored first as Will Clark tripled and Kevin Mitchell singled in the bottom of the first, but that would be it. The Cubs scored three times in the third, two of them on a double by Mark Grace, to take the lead for good. San Francisco put two runners on in the sixth and eighth innings with the heart of the order up but couldn’t take advantage.
1989 CHICAGO CUBS (4) AT 1989 SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS (1)
1989 CHICAGO CUBS AB R H BI 1989 SAN FRANCISCO G AB R H BI
Jerome Walton 5 0 2 0 Brett Butler 4 0 0 0
Curtis Wilkerson 5 1 1 0 Tracy Jones 4 0 2 0
Ryne Sandberg 5 1 3 0 Will Clark 4 1 2 0
Andre Dawson 4 0 1 0 Kevin Mitchell 4 0 1 1
Mark Grace 4 1 1 2 Ernest Riles 4 0 0 0
Dwight Smith 4 0 2 1 Terry Kennedy 4 0 0 0
Damon Berryhill 4 0 1 0 Ed Jurak 4 0 1 0
Shawon Dunston 4 1 1 1 Jose Uribe 4 0 0 0
Rick Sutcliffe CYZ 4 0 0 0 Kelly Downs DYZ 1 0 0 0
Matt Williams 1 0 0 0
Candy Maldonado 1 0 0 0
TOTALS 39 4 12 4 TOTALS 35 1 6 1
1989 CHICAGO CUBS 003 100 000 -- 4
1989 SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS 100 000 000 -- 1
LOB--1989 CHICAGO CUBS 8, 1989 SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS 7.
ERR--Mark Grace, Ryne Sandberg, Ernest Riles. 2B--Mark
Grace. 3B--Will Clark. HR--Shawon Dunston. SB--Ryne
Sandberg, Will Clark.
1989 CHICAGO CUBS IP H R ER BB SO HR
Rick Sutcliffe CYZ [W] 8.00 6 1 1 0 2 0
Calvin Schiraldi DCY [S] 1.00 0 0 0 0 2 0
1989 SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS
Kelly Downs DYZ [L] 6.00 11 4 4 0 1 1
Scott Garrelts AYZ 2.00 1 0 0 0 1 0
Mike LaCoss CB 1.00 0 0 0 0 1 0
SO--Mark Grace, Curtis Wilkerson, Damon Berryhill, Terry
Kennedy, Tracy Jones, Will Clark, Ernest Riles.
May 2: The Giants battered Greg Maddux around, scoring six runs off him in six innings. Jose Uribe had a two-run single in the second inning and it was 3-0 after three. The Cubs narrowed the gap to 3-2 in the fourth, but a two-run homer by Kevin Mitchell in the fifth restored the lead. Greg Litton hit a solo homer in the sixth and Terry Kennedy had an RBI single in the eighth to pad the lead.
1989 CHICAGO CUBS (2) AT 1989 SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS (7) 1989 CHICAGO CUBS AB R H BI 1989 SAN FRANCISCO G AB R H BI Dwight Smith 4 0 1 0 Brett Butler 4 0 1 0 Mitch Webster 4 1 1 0 Tracy Jones 4 1 0 0 Ryne Sandberg 4 0 0 0 Will Clark 4 1 2 0 Andre Dawson 4 1 1 1 Kevin Mitchell 2 2 1 2 Mark Grace 3 0 1 1 Ernest Riles 3 2 2 1 Damon Berryhill 4 0 2 0 Terry Kennedy 3 0 1 1 Vance Law 3 0 0 0 Greg Litton 3 1 1 1 Shawon Dunston 3 0 0 0 Jose Uribe 4 0 2 2 Greg Maddux BYZ 2 0 0 0 Rick Reuschel BZ 3 0 0 0 Curtis Wilkerson 1 0 0 0 Donell Nixon 1 0 0 0 TOTALS 32 2 6 2 TOTALS 31 7 10 7 1989 CHICAGO CUBS 000 200 000 -- 2 1989 SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS 021 021 01x -- 7 LOB--1989 CHICAGO CUBS 4, 1989 SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS 5. 2B--Andre Dawson, Damon Berryhill, Dwight Smith, Will Clark, Ernest Riles. 3B--Will Clark. HR--Kevin Mitchell, Greg Litton. SACF--Ernest Riles. SACB--Terry Kennedy. 1989 CHICAGO CUBS IP H R ER BB SO HR Greg Maddux BYZ [L] 6.00 6 6 6 3 3 2 Steve Wilson DY 2.00 4 1 1 0 1 0 1989 SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS Rick Reuschel BZ [W] 8.00 6 2 2 0 5 0 Jeff Brantley DY 1.00 0 0 0 1 1 0 SO--Shawon Dunston (2), Damon Berryhill, Dwight Smith (2), Mitch Webster, Terry Kennedy, Brett Butler, Tracy Jones, Ernest Riles. BB--Mark Grace, Kevin Mitchell (2), Greg Litton.
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