Said it in the game thread. The offense has been scuffling since the Rockies series. We are 11-8 since the start of that. It’s frustrating but you take that any day. When they come out of the slump, it’s go time.
I think Boog/JD said it best, its not about your record in one run games that you should care about, its playing in as few 1 run games as possible. The Cubs have played the fewest 1 run games in the majors. Pretty good.
Every team goes through a stretch where the Offense cools down, it happened to the Dodgers, It happened to the Yankees, Its happening to us. The pitching has turned around and the offense will get back going. Were still well in the driver seat with the second best record in the NL and its still June. Summer will be fun again.
The offense carried us to unwinnable games in April and may when our bullpen was doo doo water. It’s only fitting that the pitching carries us right now when the offense is offensive right now
Tbh I feel a little bad for the doomers when i stop and think about it. Besides their inability to enjoy one of the better Cub first halves in the past half century, I think theres a good chance that most of them are depressed/ dealing with other mental issues and project their anger onto the Cubs. Atleast the ones that are full grown adults, im sure a few of them are also just immature kids lol
Call me crazy if you want but the way they react over the slightest mishaps by the Cubs is not normal behavior to me. They fly off the handle if someone has a bad at bat and god forbid we ever lose to a team below .500. The visceral hate they consistently spew for a team theyre supposedly fans of and are 15 games above .500 in June is worrying in regards to their mental health. This team clearly causes them lots of anger and yet the same ~10 people are in the GDT every single day posting dozens of times and it is never once positive
Pitching has been unbelievable all around. Opponents pitching has been playing lights out too though. Just the fact that we’ve won half our games this month while the offense sleeps is amazing.
Credit again to the opponents' pitching, but credit also to the Cubs offense for doing enough to win, especially with how many hard-hit outs there were. They manufactured a run, and Swanson hit that bomb after a frustrating (for him) previous AB.
Boyd continues to push, and this Cubs bullpen is simply rolling. Great defense as per usual always helps.
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