Now THAT'S A Quality Start! (Game Final 6-29-11)

For almost the entire first half of the season we Cubs fans were asking... Well... many questions. However, the question we've been asking since midway through the first game was: "Where the hell is our ace?!?!" Today, we had one.

Ryan Dempster, unquestioningly, had the best damn outing of all the damn pitchers in the entire damn pitching staff tonight. The proof:

Dempster allowed only three hits.
Dempster allowed no walks.
Dempster had only 1 ER in 8+ innings of work
Dempster retired 20 batters in row

You have to admit, such a performance is a welcome relief as compared to the two starters yesterday. (One of which is now happily, for us, unemployed.) The only bad thing about the game was Carlos Marmol blowing the save which cost Dempster a well deserved win.

In a season that started out bad and quickly went to shit, there are not a lot of reasons to celebrate. For tonight (and probably tonight only) I celebrate the coming of our Ace.

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