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Game One Hundred Sixty: Cubs (82-76) vs. Diamondbacks (68-91) Game Time - 1:20pm C.T. Coverage - TV: WGN TV - Radio: 720 WGN, XM Radio Channel 183 Location - Wrigley Field, Chicago Tom Gorzelanny (7-2, 4.70/1.23) vs. Billy Buckner (3-6, 6.59/1.59) Weather permitting ... the Chicago Cubs will begin their final series of the season this afternoon against the Arizona Diamondbacks. When these two teams met in Arizona back at the end of April the Cubs were a game over .500 (9-8) and the D'Backs owned a 7-11 record. Arizona took two of three from the Cubs at Chase Field just nine days before the Cubs would lose Aramis Ramirez for nearly two months. But that was then ... and with three games left in the 2009 campaign, both clubs are playing out the schedule. If they can get the game in, it all starts with Tom Gorzelanny and finishing the season with three wins ...
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