Recap of Monday Night's Game at Wrigley, By Way of the Twilight
Zone  Monday night's game seemed otherworldly from even before
the first pitch.  A Wrigley Field home game on a holiday at
night? It made scheduling sense, given that the Cubs had to fly
all the way east from San Diego following Sunday's game, but it
still felt wrong.  Then the lineups were published and owing to
a combination of illness, injuries, and an opposing lefthander,
we saw Reed Johnson hitting cleanup and an infield of Freel,
Theriot, Miles, and Hoffpauir. In other words, the stuff of
split squad spring training games.  The game itself was pure
freak show: Freddy Sanchez had six hits, Ryan Theriot had three
doubles, Ryan Dempster had a dugout tantrum, Ted Lilly was
ejected from a game in which he didn't pitch, Pittsburgh's Matt
Capps was drilled by a wicked line drive off the bat of Geo
Soto, Sean Burnett earned his first career save after 60 Major
League appearances, and oh, yeah, the Cubs actually scored some
runs.  On the flip side,