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Article: Ohman spells relief as Cubs end threat of 100-loss season.(Sports)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- September 26, 2000
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There was both a Will and a way Monday night for the Cubs to assure they won't lose 100 games in this disastrous season.
Will Ohman showed them the way by striking out Cubs-killer Bobby Abreu to end a seventh-inning Phildelphia rally, easing the path to a 4-3 victory over the Phillies in the opener of this four-game Wrigley Field series. The slender southpaw is still unscored on in 4 relief appearances since the Cubs summoned him last week from their Class AA West Tenn farm club.
"He's a keeper for me," Cubs manager Don Baylor said of Ohman, their eighth-round 1998 draft pick who climbed the ladder quickly with 238 minor-league strikeouts in 241 1/3 ...