Cubs leaving runners in scoring position continues to get worse
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What happened in the Cubs' recent game against the Rockies?
We are absolutely live. Rahimi Harris and Grody on 104.3 The Score. Yeah, our buddy Manu Raju from CNN who was on with us yesterday had the opportunity to throw out one of the first pitches out at Wrigley Field yesterday with him and his beautiful family. And then... And our friend Manu doesn't get back here very often, so it's a big special day. They're all wearing their fresh Cubs gear. And then Manu got to see what we've all been living through right there, live in front of his face. The Rockies beating the Cubs last night 5-2, and it's the same old stuff. Cubs 0-8 with runners in scoring position as they were just kind of shut down in that game. Marshall, what is happening, my friend?
Not much. Not much is happening. That's the problem with the Cubs at Wrigley. You know, it's been since May 8th, the last time the Cubs won two games in a row at home. I want you to really think about that, because they had a 15-game winning streak at Wrigley earlier this season, but they haven't won back-to-back games there since May 8th.
I hate that these type of statistics are starting to pile up. Like the 0 for 8 with runners in scoring position. Like the fact that they're 3 for 39 over their last three games in that capacity and are hitting 077 if you need that. They are also hitting 145 over the past 11. 12 for 83 with runners in scoring position. And again, just a classic 0 for 8 last night. So these dumb statistics are popping up left and right, and I hate it. I hate it. Let's get back to the stats where every time Ian Happ hits a home run, he passes another ex-Cub on the list of all-time homers. I like that trajectory better than the things that we're seeing in Cubs games, which is the same thing every day. Every day is exactly the same.
I have a word for that. Again. You said it yesterday.
Again. Again. You wanted them to win again, though. You didn't want this again, though.
No, no, no. You have to come up with a way to have something that is sustainable. And right now, the Cubs... They've won three of their last five games, but the way they've won the three games in and of itself is unsustainable if you want to go to the playoffs in the National League.
It is. It is. You're not going to get away with that kind of stuff. You're just not.
And I don't know if you saw who was hitting in the two-hole last night. Alex Bregman. I thought about you. Now one for 19 with runners in scoring position.
Why are the Cubs struggling with runners in scoring position?
Just move him down. It's not that hard. I mean, do something.
I mean, you can't bench everybody because it seems like right now the most desired target, I don't know if it's even Alex Bregman, it's probably Dansby Swanson right now in terms of who's a guy that needs the next two-day break. Our guy Ian Happ got the treatment. He got the two-day break, right? He inhabited, and he's been better since. I know that he is imperfect in all of this as well. But it's rough out there. And Edward Cabrera and Phil Maton again. Listen...
When it comes to the Cubs last night and understanding, because I think at one point you said you believed they could score more runs, right? I think I asked that question in the group chat.
I think, oh, last night you're talking about. What I said, or at least what I was trying to get across was, yeah, you asked when they were down, I guess it was 5-2, right? Yeah, and I was like, can they even score six runs? Can they score six runs? I said, this feels like another weird night, just the way I was feeling watching the game. And so I said, yes. But my only backup for it was, it feels like a weird night. I had no good reason to think, oh, this guy hits well against that guy. I did not have a good argument.
The Cubs have done a good job in this one thing. they have psychologically conditioned you, the fan, to believe that they can just walk it off. Because when you've got 21 wins at home and nine of them are by walk-off, it's never really over, right? And so in your mind, you were thinking, well, the Rockies have the worst bullpen in all of baseball. Certainly they could scratch a little something together.
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