Fourth of July at Wrigley Field

Last year on July Fourth, the Ultimate Sports Wife and I were in San Francisco and attended the Dodgers at Giants game. The crowd that day was fairly subdued. The crowd at Wrigley Field today was subdued as well and for good reason.

The Game
The Brewers crushed the Cubs 11-2. They started out the game scoring at least one run in the first four innings taking a 9-2 lead. Cubs’ starter Rich Harden had the shortest outing of his career after pitching only 2 innings and facing 2 batters in the 3rd inning.

Brewers’ Casey McGehee became only the third Brewer in the past decade to score three runs, have four hits and drive in five runs in the same game.

In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of Lou Gehrig’s famous farewell speech, both the Cubs and Brewers wore “4 ALS” patches. Before the game, Dave Otto read a portion of the famed speech just as all home teams in baseball are doing.