5 On It: What was best part of Cubs breaking their 10-game losing streak?

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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

Leila Rahimi 0:02
It's time for Five On It. Rahimi Harrison-Roney. Bring you five topics on their minds today. On 104.3 The Score. I got five on it. Number one.
Mark Grote 0:12
What was the best part of the Cubs breaking their 10-game losing streak yesterday in the 10-4 win over the Pirates?
Leila Rahimi 0:21
I think it was the part where the Cubs won. Not to be so sarcastic. It was the fact that everybody seemed to want to hit yesterday. And your life gets easier when your lineup hits baseballs. I know it's the hardest thing to do.

What was the best part of the Cubs breaking their 10-game losing streak?

Leila Rahimi 0:35
Hit a round ball with a round bat. It's not easy. But some of these guys make it look easy at times. So to see all these people up and down the lineup. When you've got Nico Horner with two hits. When you've got Alex Bregman with two. Ian Happ with two, including a home run. Carson Kelly with two yet again. Dansby. Dansby contributed. So he also had two hits in this game. Michael Conforto with a no-doubter home run. It was the hit parade. 14 hits overall. You score 10 runs off of that. You're winning the game. That's what's happening.
Mark Grote 1:05
Adding on to that, yeah, you had five Cubs players with two hits in the game. Oh, my goodness. What a revelation that was. But for me, the single best part of the game yesterday happened in the first inning. There I was watching the Cubs sitting on my couch, Dave the Cat meowing in the kitchen.
Leila Rahimi 1:26
Minding his own. business.
Mark Grote 1:27
Minding his own business because he wanted some of the wet food. I'm like, Dave, the Cubs have loaded the bases. There's been a runners in scoring position problem. Bases loaded. Nobody out. Alex Bregman comes up to the plate and strikes out. I'm like, Oh, no. Here we go again. But then Ian Happ just absolutely say, I don't think that they win this game without the Ian Happ blistering single up the middle to score two to give the Cubs an early two to nothing lead against the Pirates and tell the Cubs offense, It's okay to hit with runners in scoring position. And then Happ did it later, too. He breaks up the 4-4 tie with a three-run jack to make it 7-4, and they never look back. But it's that first inning moment that was tense and then relief.
Mark Grote 2:21
What letter grade do you give White Sox rookie right-hander David Samlin for his performance in his MLB debut against the Twins last night?
Leila Rahimi 2:29
You know, people are always like, oh, Layla, you're so strict with your grades. Like, I never want to take your class. Like, nobody gets an A with you. Nobody gets, you know, it's rare that you even give a solid A. You know, sometimes for you it's an A minus or a B plus. Is this true? Something along those lines.
Mark Grote 2:44
Is this true or is this what people say?
Leila Rahimi 2:46
This is what they're saying.
Mark Grote 2:48
Okay.
Leila Rahimi 2:48
People are saying. Well, guess what, people? Peeps. A plus for David Sandlin.
Mark Grote 2:53
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Leila Rahimi 2:56
And it's not just because he went to Oklahoma or, you know, some one of those things. Like, I went to a school I used to cover for work. Nope. It's because he went out there and just threw whatever he wanted. It was like, oh, this guy, fastball. This other guy, four curveballs in a row. This other one, changeup. Byron Buxton hit a home run to lead off the game. That doesn't faze me. Watch me throw only 61 total pitches and retire 18 straight batters. I don't know how you give it anything other than an A+. What do you do next for your next magic trick? That's his debut, for goodness sake.
Mark Grote 3:33
Exactly, which is why, Layla, I'm giving him a B+. B+,? I need room for growth just because of what you just said. So you're going to give this man A+.
Leila Rahimi 3:43
It's grading his debut. So, yeah, that's about as good as you can do.
Mark Grote 3:48
Well, no, because he could have stayed out there longer. I don't know.
Leila Rahimi 3:52
Well, that maybe wasn't his fault. That was our friend Wheel Venable.
Mark Grote 3:55
Old Whelan.
Leila Rahimi 3:56
Oh, Wheel. Why are you pulling David Zanlin, Wheel?
Mark Grote 4:00
I love the way this game started awkwardly. His very first pitch.
Leila Rahimi 4:07
Typically, if you're a twin.
Mark Grote 4:08
Yeah, the weird-ass Minnesota Twins. The first pitch of the game is called a strike. So he's making his MLB debut. There's David Sandlin probably feeling all that one feels when they're making their MLB debut. Umpire calls it a strike, and then Byron Buxton touches his helmet.

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