The other night, I made the almost-yearly trek to Oklahoma City to see the visiting Iowa Cubs. Unfortunately, once again they lost, meaning that they're 0-7 when I am present. Saturday's game wasn't as bad as last year, however.

The final score was 2-1, with the Cubs' lone run coming on a homer by Michael Restovich, who is now hitting .308/.380/.609 for the I-Cubs. Ryan Theriot also had a good night at the plate, going 4-4 with a double and a walk from the leadoff spot. Mostly, though, the I-Cubs looked a lot like the C-Cubs on offense, putting on a fair number of baserunners, but unable to push runs across the plate. It’s tough to put on a baserunner in every inning and only score one run, but that’s what happened Saturday night.

I was excited to get the chance to see Felix Pie. He went 2-4 from the seventh spot in the lineup, with a hard-hit double to left center and a soft single. He hit another ball hard that would have been a double had Redhawks first baseman Jason Hart not been playing right on the line. Both that hard grounder and the double were off Redhawks starter Kevin Walker, who is a lefty, so that's encouraging. In the field, he seemed to get a bad jump on a run-scoring double by Hart, but I can’t say for sure. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt, since he may not have been able to get to it, and I didn’t see very clearly anyway.

I was also happy to arrive to the park and learn that Angel Guzman would be pitching. He looked OK, giving up both Redhawks’ runs on seven hits in 6.2 innings, walking two and striking out four. I had him at exactly 100 pitches upon departure, 56 for strikes. He was consistently hitting 92-94 on the radar, with the occasional 95 in there as well. His curve seemed a little inconsistent; at least two of his strikeouts came when he froze the batter with the pitch, but at other times it didn’t seem to move much. Hart’s double came after Guzman froze him with the curve, and then followed it up with another that didn’t break as much. Hart was able to sit back on it pretty easily before hitting it hard.

Guzman was followed by Jerome Williams, who I have to say looked pretty solid. He’s had trouble since being demoted, though, with a 5.03 ERA in 34 IP for Iowa, so I figure it will be a while before he gets another chance in the majors.