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Chapter 1: What are the details surrounding the Cubs' current losing streak?
This is Rahimi Harrison-Grody on 104.3 The Score. And the sad part is even that probably feels better than this stupid 10-game losing streak.
It reached 10. Double digits. This is a significant day. 10 straight losses. That negates, by the way, in my brain. I was talking about this last night. I was out. I said this negates one of the 10-game winning streaks.
Chapter 2: How did the Cubs' performance against the Pirates impact their season?
You still have one that is left, but this takes it away. It has neutralized one of the two 10-game winning streaks.
I mean, that's it. Congratulations. The money in the bank has run dry. And you're right. That's kind of how we have to look at it. Now, the last team to do something like this, have the 10-game win streak, the 10-game losing streak, was the 2017 Dodgers who, yada, yada, yada, maybe if the Astros hadn't banged on some trash cans, won a World Series. You know, another one.
They won the pennant that year, the Dodgers did, and they lost to the Cheating Astros.
Was a great World Series, but the point is that doesn't really help us in this state of things right now. The other part is, unfortunately, Mark, you and I did the thing that I think all of us do.
When we're trying to find answers to why a team is struggling, whether it's asking for your backup quarterback at times or asking for a different left tackle candidate or it's asking for perhaps a different guy to come off of the bench, you know, maybe your sixth man should start at a various position. We ask, what of Jordan Wicks? And in the first inning, he let you know.
Unfortunately, Jordan Hicks had to wear that one. Five runs allowed to the Pirates in the bottom of the first inning. Welcome back to the big leagues. Now, he did settle down after that. And I give him credit because I feel like as much as we, Mark, had been waiting to see him, He had probably been waiting for this moment to get back to get another opportunity tenfold, twentyfold, hundredfold.
But unfortunately, when things are bad, it just felt like at that point it was going from bad to worse.
He walked the first batter on four pitches. Here I am, kind of excited to see a first-round pick who has just been lost, whether through injury or ineffectiveness. The Cubs scraping the bottom of the... We need you, kid. We need you... First batter, four straight pitches. He walks. They get men on. Then you get the Brian Reynolds two-run double to left, and the whole thing is on.
The Valdez home run comes on a 2-2 count with two outs. You're on the verge of getting out of it, and that could change the entire complexion of the game. Ten straight losses, and they give up five. They lost the game in the first inning last night. There was no sign of life from the Chicago Cubs.
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Chapter 3: What were the standout moments from the Cubs' recent game?
It's just when your team is playing like this, when nobody is hitting, when you can't get guys around, when they're on third base, when the last win was May 15th, it starts to add up for all of us who are watching in a way that can be incredibly frustrating.
That's why I prominently mentioned the Brian Reynolds to run double because once that was cracked, it was like, okay, good luck. And then we have to cherish the Cubs' runs. Ian Happ with an RBI double after Alex Bregman. By the way, Alex Bregman, two hits last night. I was listening to the radio pregame yesterday, and Zach, of course, has to do a segment where it's the who's hot and who's cold.
Really tough to do that segment right now. And he said what I probably would have done as well. And that was Alex Bregman's on a five game winning streak, I guess, or a hitting streak. So I guess he's hot right now. It's up to six.
And then basically he's hotter than any other Cubs hitter.
Well, that's it. Zach then went on and said the rest of the team is cold, essentially, and proceeded to fire off a bunch of really horrible statistics of really cold players because that's it. That's what we're clinging to. I'm clinging to Alex Bregman going two for four with a run. Carson Kelly, two for four. He got two hits. Dansby Swanson, though, 0 for 3 with a walk.
He's hitting 183 right now. Say Suzuki, another 0 for 3. Moises Ballesteros. Happy birthday, Marshall Harris, but I'm sorry. Moises Ballesteros was 0 for 4, and he continues to struggle. It's funny, Layla. David Haw left this here.
For you.
He has a lineup here.
As a clue, yes.
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Chapter 4: Who are the key players discussed in relation to the Cubs' struggles?
David Haw doodles, and I think David Haw also, just like the rest of us, has to get stuff out of his system. But David Haw sarcastically refers to Moises Ballesteros catching. We, at the Midday Show, handicapped it. We decided... Oh, he's not being serious about this?
I don't know, because we were trying to figure out whether or not... We said the overrunner for Moises Ballesteros catching would be 13 games, and I said 15. And my on-pace stat was looking pretty solid. Leading off? I can't condone this. I can't condone this behavior. This losing streak is tearing us apart.
Yeah, you're right. It's going to be like politics eventually. We're just not going to be able to talk about the Cubs as a society. When you go to your parties, you go on your dates, do not talk about the Chicago Cubs. It's going to break up families.
Well, and it's not what you want.
And you know what else I thought about was we were talking about notable 10-game losing streaks in recent Cubs history, and I was thinking, oh, like the one that blew up the team, that blew up the core of the team who won the World Series where you saw the fire sale where Kimbrell gets traded, Baez gets traded for PCA, Bryant gets traded away to the Giants, and Rizzo goes to the Yankees. That one?
Yeah, you should have a losing streak after that. That's just a demoralized team at that point, so that's a good catch by you.
And 847 says, 312-644-6767 is our number. 847 says, saying Wick settled down after a five run first is like asking, other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play? Kind of. Listen, it could have been worse. Okay. Like when I'm calling somebody up from the minor leagues who hasn't gotten a chance and we've been asking for him and clearly there's been reasons they kept him where he was.
I get it. Like I get that part of it. The best thing you can do after what happened in the first inning is settle down and start to throw strikes and adjust. And that happened. But the problem is I have zero faith in the team to back them up with any sort of run support. And it only got worse from there. This was a 12-1 ball game. It's not like it was 5-0.
And to your point, Layla, about the settling down, he did somehow, after a five-run first, he did pitch into the fifth inning, albeit not eight runs charged to him.
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Chapter 5: What strategies are being considered to break the losing streak?
I know that a reliever came in and gave up one of those runs, but that was his guy. He did give the Cubs 80 pitches. and they needed all of them. They're going to need Jamison Tyone to go deep tonight. But you're right, the offense, again, littered with examples throughout the day. In the fourth inning, they had first and second with nobody out.
Ian Happ hits it sharp right to second base, but an easy double play in that spot. In the fifth inning, two on for Nico Horner, who strikes out. We don't see that from Nico. This much failure from Nico Horner. Sixth inning, they had the bases loaded and did nothing with it. And for the most part, those were examples when the game was still in hand before it got out of hand.
So this was one of the worst losses along the way because you combined horrible timely hitting, non-timely hitting, with horrible starting pitching.
Well, and bad defense, too, at times. You know, that's the other part of this. PCA failing to hit the cutoff, man. Like, man... Howard, I get it. I get that there were signs of life at the plate and he's still remaining at leadoff.
Hitting it hard, working some good counts.
But at the same time, I can't have you guys' defense fail too. Then it's a multi-system organ failure, is it not?
Can I tell you a text that I just got?
312-644-6767, except this one was to Mark Grody's personal text line.
You'll love it. I'm sorry to just jump into this. No, it's good. This is from Brett Boone. This is from our friend. This is my guy.
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Chapter 6: How does the Cubs' recent performance compare to past seasons?
Where's Chris Ronji?
Working.
Oh, yeah. Bear dads.
They're dead. That could also be unstable. Number two, we've offended Coombe. We've offended Coombe. Okay, who else? Number three, I'm pretty sure Craig is perturbed at least, and that's as emotional as he'll get.
The Cubs have let Boone down. You don't let Brett Boone down or any of the Boones.
Brett Boone is disappointed. Yeah, who else? Alex Bregman is straight upset.
Alex Kuhn is probably upset as well.
No, I don't know. Alex Kuhn is pretty... I don't know. He's very calm.
He is very calm. You're right. And he's... That's needed around here.
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Chapter 7: What are the statistics highlighting the Cubs' offensive issues?
What a game for the Soccos last night. At least there's the Socs, who lost, by the way.
But it was a fun loss and not fun bad. It was a hard-fought loss. It was. Like school announcements when you'd hear about your team losing a hard-fought game. And it wasn't. It would be like 45 to nothing.
Right, but you've got to stay positive.
But this time it was an actual hard-fought loss.
It was. The Sox were, at the very least, highly entertaining in the late innings last night. That is for sure.
Yeah, I mean... I worry that Sam Antonacci out-hustled himself.
Oh my goodness.
But we'll get to that at 1045. In the meantime, unfortunately, the problem child is getting all the attention here. But that's the point, is that at no point during this losing streak, Mark, have I said to myself, this seems like something they can overcome. And my respective stats and measuring sticks and everything that I see have seemed even farther and farther away.
Where's the lineup when the bases are loaded? Who's hitting in the lineup when, I don't know, you have two outs and there's two men on? And that's the part of this that has seemed so fruitless, bleak, etc.
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Chapter 8: What are the hosts' predictions for the Cubs moving forward?
I feel like that was also very failed, rispy. And again, for me, it's not the you're facing 2021 edition of Jacob DeGrom. Like, that's not the loss that bothered me. That will happen in life.
It's an Ashcraft.
It's the six to nothing before that. And then it's the mess you've gotten yourselves into. And it's the sweep by two teams at home.
Do not, folks, do not talk Cubs baseball with your friends or family. It's just Layla and I are professionals. We can do this, but we don't suggest it to the rest of you.
Enough! Enough of us doing this.
We got some anger we're going to talk about here, Layla?
Yeah, it's enough to hear from us. Whatever. You guys talk crap about us all the time, and we don't know anything about baseball, and I don't even know why I'm on this radio station. Don't say that, Layla.
Don't give them time of day.
No. No, you know what? No. You've heard it from me enough. We'll listen to everybody else who makes you feel even worse. Ron Coomer. Like, what about him? Alex Bregman, as I've mentioned. And more. We broadcast live from the Scores Hyundai Studios, brought to you by your local Hyundai dealers. When we have breaking news on the score, it is sponsored by IDOT. Speeding in a work zone is a no-win.
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