What is it with pitchers over 40? According to conventional wisdom, Greg Maddux should be in the twilight of his career… not coming into is prime. Apparently the St. Louis Cardinals’ hitters don’t agree with that line of thinking. Maddux pitched seven shut out innings as the Chicago Cubs avoided the sweep winning 7-3. “Mad Dog” is off to the best start of his career with a record of 4-0 and a tiny ERA of 0.99. While I’m not ready to hand Maddux the Cy Young award just yet, its impossible to ignore the old man’s performance today.

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What is it with pitchers over 40? According to conventional wisdom, Greg Maddux should be in the twilight of his career… not coming into is prime. Apparently the St. Louis Cardinals’ hitters don’t agree with that line of thinking. Maddux pitched seven shut out innings as the Chicago Cubs avoided the sweep winning 7-3. “Mad Dog” is off to the best start of his career with a record of 4-0 and a tiny ERA of 0.99. While I’m not ready to hand Maddux the Cy Young award just yet, its impossible to ignore the old man’s performance today.

This entry was posted on Sunday, April 23rd, 2006 at 3:18 pm and is filed under Cubs, Cards/Cubs. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.