The Cubs finished off a pretty successful home stand by losing two straight to the Rockies. Considering they never scored more than three runs in any of the games, that's doing pretty well. Obviously, their pitching had a lot to do with the success. I wasn't too concerned about the lack of offense against Milwaukee. Those games were played under pretty appalling weather conditions.
The Rockies series, though, was, in my mind, a return to the bad habits that characterized the team early this year and for parts of last year as well. Swinging for the fences, striking out. They managed to pull out the first of the Rockies games, then just achieved nothing in the last two despite the wind howling out.
The Hendricks game was a game they should have won. Hendricks pitched a really good game, especially as he was plagued by the umpiring of Laz Diaz, possibly the worst umpire in all of baseball. Three solo homers in 7+ innings. The Cubs, though, were in full wind blowing out mode and managed just one. Sometimes Maddon is just too cute. His lineup with the wind gusting did not include Schwarber or Contreras or Baez for some reason and was just a jumble with Rizzo leading off and no rhyme or reason thereafter.
Wednesday's game saw more of the same flailing ABs and a pretty rotten performance by Yu Darvish, who has been bafflingly inconsistent to date.
On to St. Louis for an early season showdown with the Cards.
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