32-20 in 1-run games, top 5 bullpen and fielding, a brilliant Brandon Webb in his unfortunately short career - this '07 team was so much fun. Who cares they got blown out by 7 or more runs in 14 games. Losing by 1 or 11 still counts as one loss. Too bad the utterly disastrous '09 season gutted this team with 4 career ending injuries (which resulted in AZ trading away Scherzer for a run in '11) and whiffing on FIVE first round draft picks ruined their near future.
The September/October Cubs I’ve always known and loved. This brings back great memories. At least they played well enough in September to even give me this October nut kick. It’s alright. Next year will be different.
They only won 90 games on a weak NL and got outscored. They are who we thought they were. Its just that no one saw them hitting all those home runs against the Cubs this series
@@hmhm856 League parity does not equal a "weak" NL. What, did all the good players take this year off? Thats like someone saying to only reason why the Cubs reached the WS in 2016 is because they cakewalked through an easy NL where 60% of the league had under 80 wins (9 teams vs AL's 5) and beat 2 teams even the hapless Dbacks scored more runs than to win the pennant. In Interleague play, 2007 NL was nearly .500 vs the AL (teams avg 7 wins 8 losses), while in 2016 the garbage NL the cubs faced went 120-160 vs the AL (avg 8.5 wins 11.5 losses)
We had four leadoff home runs this 2007 Division Series: Johnny Damon game 1 in Cleveland Jimmy Rollins game 2 in Philly against the Rockies Chris Young of Arizona in game 3 in Wrigley Grady Seizemore game 4 in Yankee Stadium
Jimmy Rollins also did it this 2007 postseason in game 2 against the Rockies, but that was on the bottom of the 1st, and not the top of the 1st Arizona put on a home run derby show against the Cubs
@@TiagoGomez-hb9te Ever since the creation of the smartphone with IPhone in 2007 and with the advancement of RUclips starting around 2006, time just flies
@@hmhm856they are good hitters, but they're pitchers. They aren't better hitters than the actual hitters you have on your bench. Meh. 2007 was a different time in baseball.
It was an especially head scratching decision since he ended up only pitching 1 more inning after staying in to hit for himself, if you're only gonna let him pitch 1 more inning you might as well pinch hit for him at that point.
100%. The Cubs become the Twins playing the Yankees once the postseason begins, if they haven’t already blown it September. This 07-08 iteration were probably the most repulsive of their storied history of postseason collapses. Milwaukee would win a game vs the D Backs with the run differential of a 76 win team.
@@chrisuncleahmad 98 the Braves were far and away the better team. 03 was heartbreaking but the team showed up and won their first postseason series in 95 years. 2008 is what makes this repulsive. To go from run away national league champion favorites to being swept again, this time by the 84 win dodgers with the bats once again going ice cold with a big edge in talent pisses me off more than any other choke. We have a lot them including last September too.
@@chicagodude8888 I wasn't really following baseball as closely in 2003 so the infamous NLCS collapse vs Florida didn’t really affect me the same way it did for most Chicago fans but seeing them fall apart vs the Dodgers so dramatically in 2008 really had me believing the curse was real.
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32-20 in 1-run games, top 5 bullpen and fielding, a brilliant Brandon Webb in his unfortunately short career - this '07 team was so much fun. Who cares they got blown out by 7 or more runs in 14 games. Losing by 1 or 11 still counts as one loss. Too bad the utterly disastrous '09 season gutted this team with 4 career ending injuries (which resulted in AZ trading away Scherzer for a run in '11) and whiffing on FIVE first round draft picks ruined their near future.
This series was over the second Lilly threw his glove into the ground. A perfect encapsulation if this era of Cubs teams.
The Ted Lilly glove toss........ they say a picture is worth a thousand words
The Chicago Cubs and the offense shutting down in the playoffs: name a better duo.
First MLB Postseason on TBS.
The September/October Cubs I’ve always known and loved. This brings back great memories. At least they played well enough in September to even give me this October nut kick.
It’s alright. Next year will be different.
Back when pitchers can go deeper into games.
On paper, Arizona's roster doesn't jump off the page. But they mesh so well together, run differential be damned.
They only won 90 games on a weak NL and got outscored. They are who we thought they were.
Its just that no one saw them hitting all those home runs against the Cubs this series
@@hmhm856 League parity does not equal a "weak" NL. What, did all the good players take this year off? Thats like someone saying to only reason why the Cubs reached the WS in 2016 is because they cakewalked through an easy NL where 60% of the league had under 80 wins (9 teams vs AL's 5) and beat 2 teams even the hapless Dbacks scored more runs than to win the pennant. In Interleague play, 2007 NL was nearly .500 vs the AL (teams avg 7 wins 8 losses), while in 2016 the garbage NL the cubs faced went 120-160 vs the AL (avg 8.5 wins 11.5 losses)
We had four leadoff home runs this 2007 Division Series:
Johnny Damon game 1 in Cleveland
Jimmy Rollins game 2 in Philly against the Rockies
Chris Young of Arizona in game 3 in Wrigley
Grady Seizemore game 4 in Yankee Stadium
Not often you see a 'first pitch of the game' HR in a postseason game
Jimmy Rollins also did it this 2007 postseason in game 2 against the Rockies, but that was on the bottom of the 1st, and not the top of the 1st
Arizona put on a home run derby show against the Cubs
@@TiagoGomez-hb9te Ever since the creation of the smartphone with IPhone in 2007 and with the advancement of RUclips starting around 2006, time just flies
The D-Backs' last playoff series win until the 2023 NL Wild Card Series.
Lou Piniella made the mistake of looking ahead taking Zambrano out that early in game 1 just so he could save him for a game 4 that never happened.
Just a bad series for the Cubs and their bats.
.....why was Carlos Zambrano hitting for himself in the 6th inning? With the bases loaded?? Of a tie game???
Zambrano, just like Micah Owings of Arizona, are great hitters. And its only game 1 also
@@hmhm856they are good hitters, but they're pitchers. They aren't better hitters than the actual hitters you have on your bench.
Meh. 2007 was a different time in baseball.
It was an especially head scratching decision since he ended up only pitching 1 more inning after staying in to hit for himself, if you're only gonna let him pitch 1 more inning you might as well pinch hit for him at that point.
Rich field 😅
Would Milwaukee have put up a better showing vs the DBacks?
Most likely. Would have been nice to see Fielder and Braun
100%. The Cubs become the Twins playing the Yankees once the postseason begins, if they haven’t already blown it September. This 07-08 iteration were probably the most repulsive of their storied history of postseason collapses. Milwaukee would win a game vs the D Backs with the run differential of a 76 win team.
@@chicagodude8888 2003? 1998?
@@chrisuncleahmad 98 the Braves were far and away the better team. 03 was heartbreaking but the team showed up and won their first postseason series in 95 years. 2008 is what makes this repulsive. To go from run away national league champion favorites to being swept again, this time by the 84 win dodgers with the bats once again going ice cold with a big edge in talent pisses me off more than any other choke. We have a lot them including last September too.
@@chicagodude8888 I wasn't really following baseball as closely in 2003 so the infamous NLCS collapse vs Florida didn’t really affect me the same way it did for most Chicago fans but seeing them fall apart vs the Dodgers so dramatically in 2008 really had me believing the curse was real.
The NL was truly mediocre that season. Sorry it’s true.