That’s the potent offense I was talking about! The Cubs bats tore up the Astros for 11 runs as the Astros earned five off of Ted Lilly and one off of rookie David Patton.

But seriously if our offense could own a team like that day in and day out then I smell the World Series. Fukodome shocked the hell out of me going 4-5, a homerun, 4 runs, and a stolen base! Should I expect this from each game he plays in? HELL YEAH! I believe his contract is around 40 million, so it’s about time he starts playing like it.

Ramirez and Fontenot both had 4 rbi a piece. Ramirez actually had 4 hits too and Fontenot blasted a homerun to Right Field. Fontenot is going to shock a lot of people this year, he’s a pretty small guy but he has some pop in his bat. He’ll also have plenty of opportunities to help the team out with brining runners across the plate, because he bats behind Ramirez and in front of Soto. The past few years when Fontenot’s batting it seems like all his power comes from pulling the ball, but if he wanted to he could take the ball the opposite way for a base hit.

The Cubs babied Soto last night because of a minor injury, he’s fine.

Ted Lilly worried me last night. He hasn’t been impressive over spring training, and really got shelled last night giving up five runs in five innings; four of those five runs came off of homers. I know Lilly is a fly ball pitcher and the wind was blowing out pretty hard, Pudge managed to knock one over the ballpark, but still, four homeruns in five innings is pretty scary. I could only imagine how much he’ll give up this year at Wrigley.

Besides Patton giving up a homerun to the first batter he faced the Chicago’s bullpen didn’t look that bad last night. Most likely it looked good because Cotts didn’t pitch.

What was most important was the team took the series from Houston 2-1. I know we’re not going to win them all, but if we could take each series we’ll be fine, and like I said the division is ours to lose.