The Cubs are towards the end of a stretch where they are matched against five of the six worst pitching teams in the NL for sixteen games. They started the stretch against the Brewers and fared nicely, sweeping the series and scoring 25 runs. Then they met the Nationals and proceeded to lose two of three at home and score only seven runs. Next came the Diamonbacks, whom they pasted in three of four, scoring 33 runs.
Now they have lost two straight to the Pirates, a really, really bad team with execrable pitching, scoring all of four runs in the process. They lost tonight to a pitcher who had lost his first five starts and compiled an ERA over 12. There is something really wrong with these numbers, and it is going to be a long season unless they can sort things out soon.
These are the teams you should hammer. OK, you can say they were 7-3 until the road trip and they were starting to come around, but you can also argue that they have really no consistency at all, that they should finish this stretch a minimum of 12-4 because that is what good teams do. No chance of that as they have already lost five.
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