Carlos Zambrano Saves Cubs With Huge Performance, Ted Lilly Saves a Fly

Backed up against an early season NL Central wall, Big Z came up absolutely huge last night, going seven innings to get the win alongside three Ks and a few earned runs. He also helped out of the offensive end with a HR, single and double. Rumor has it that he wanted to get a triple as well but, in between innings, Ted Lilly reminded Z to stay humble and out went the chance to hit for the cycle.

Lost in the shuffle of Big Z’s win and resulting humbleness was Ted Lilly saving a fly (yes, we’re serious—this is not just some bad TLFC Photoshop exercise). As the picture above demonstrates, in the bottom of the 8th inning, Ted Lilly carefully caught a fly that was wandering around the Cubs dugout (no confirmation but we assume that it was interested in Ted’s ultra-rare type-TL blood).

However, before any animal activists get upset over potential harm done to the fly, we do want to note that, unlike the cat that ran across the field in the last week’s game that ended up at a Chicago animal shelter, this fly was subsquently treated like royalty in the Cubs dugout--getting an Alfonso Soriano bat, free piggyback ride from hitting coach Gerald Perry, posing for pictures with Rich Harden and grabbing a late night Double-Double Burger at In-n-Out Burger with TL.

Dumpster gets the ball today against Lil Dougy Davis...and, Ted Heads, we welcome pre-game predictions for all non-TL games (that's the Super Computer's domain and, as we learned from Maximum Overdrive, you don't mess with Robots)---please send to TedLillyRules@gmail.com