Jeff Baker News

First of all, here's a link that will help us establish a proper frame of reference.

Mike Fontenot, Starlin Castro, the city of Mesa, and Mark DeRosa are the topics in this week's Inbox.

It was one pitch, one out of 27 that Neal Cotts threw on June 24 in a relief outing for Triple-A Iowa.

Ryne Sandberg, Jake Fox, Aaron Heilman and an update on the movie, "We Believe" are the topics in this week's Inbox.

Some made stellar debuts while others continued to produce in their longtime careers among the 12 players from Clemson and South Carolina who are on Major League Baseball active rosters.

The Doug Davis curveball swept across the plate, Sam Fuld swung hard and the ball soared toward the right-field wall.

Bruce Miles' game tracker Still job. 1: Randy Wells turned in the Cubs' 94th quality start of the season by working 7 innings of shutout ball.

Seven years ago, Randy Wells was a Minor League catcher who hit .158. Look where he is now.

One day after exploding for 12 runs, the D-backs offense was quiet. On a chilly Saturday afternoon, three Cubs pitchers carved up the Arizona offense, dealing the D-backs a 5-0 loss in front of 39,138 at Wrigley Field.

Ryan Roberts has been around baseball a long time, and the 29-year-old infielder hopes he never loses the feeling of being "an old rookie." He made brief appearances in each of the past three seasons before earning the final spot on the D-backs roster out of Spring Training.

For as much as I expected the Cubs to finish the season strong, it wasn't going to make up for the fact that a number of teams in front of them in the Wild Card chase are not only better composed, but are actually riding pretty good hot streaks.

Derrek Lee added a two-run single for the Cubs, who have won seven of nine games.

Jeff Baker is 6-2, 210. Pablo Sandoval makes him look... tiny. Browse more photos>> Throughout this September, with the Cubs desperately clinging to hope of a postseason berth with a 16-9 start to the month, I kept thinking "stranger things have happened". From time to time, as you know, I'd cite various other late-season pennant collapses or ...

Jeff Baker, home run hero. Who would have thought? Browse more photos>> As the Cubs and their coaches and manager came onto the field for the handshakes and high-fives after their come-from-behind 3-2 win over the Giants, I saw something I don't think I've seen all year.

Though a postseason berth isn't likely in the Cubs' future, that doesn't mean they are just going to hand the Giants wins.

San Francisco Giants shortstop Juan Uribe hops over Chicago Cubs' Jeff Baker as Giants' Eugenio Velez, right, backs up the double play in the sixth inning.

Derrek Lee said Friday a celebratory slap on the head from Cubs teammate Angel Guzman was not the reason his neck spasms flared up and knocked him out of the lineup.

Chicago Cubs first baseman Derrek Lee will miss Friday's game against the San Francisco Giants because of neck spasms sustained while being congratulated after scoring on Jeff Baker's home run in the ninth inning of Thursday night's comeback win.

The Colorado Rockies insist they're not feeling the squeeze as the NL wild-card race tightens around them.

Jeff Baker hit a two-out, two-run home run in the top of the ninth inning and the Chicago Cubs staved off elimination in the NL Central for a day by handing the San Francisco Giants a blow to their postseason hopes with a 3-2 victory Thursday night.