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Chapter 1: What were the Cubs' recent performance highlights against the Giants?
Rahimi Harrison-Groney. Middays 10 to 2. On 104.3 The Score.
Here's a fly ball to shallow right. Jung-Hoo Lee makes a running catch.
Chapter 2: How did Colin Ray's pitching impact the Cubs' game?
And the ball game is over. The Giants beat the Cubs today. By a score of... Five to one. As you heard it right here on 104.3 The Score, Pat Hughes telling you of the Cubs' four-run loss to the Giants yesterday.
Chapter 3: What challenges did the Cubs face with runners in scoring position?
Turned out to be a rough day for Colin Ray. who they just needed yesterday. They needed bullpen relief, as in they wanted to rest the bullpen, so they wanted a lot from Ray. They did get four and two-thirds, allowed four runs. His ERA is now reading 535.
Chapter 4: What are the implications of the Cubs' recent road trip results?
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slash the score Chicago and our video producers are the one and only Connor O'Donnell also the great work of Jacob Stutz and Max Curtis and our guy Cody Westerlund as well on the overall though for the Cubs they take two out of three that's what you're supposed to do in San Francisco so believe it or not even though they pulled up with their old habits
With runners in scoring position yesterday, and we can talk about it, the Cubs did win two games in San Fran, as they should be doing against a bad San Fran team that did bad things again this weekend.
I think you have lowered expectations.
Chapter 5: How do the Cubs' hitting statistics compare to their pitching?
They should sweep the San Francisco Giants.
That's what you said on Friday. It's hard to sweep, man. It's hard to sweep anybody. Bad teams, good teams.
Chapter 6: What changes might improve the Cubs' batting order?
I don't usually go into series expecting sweeps.
Here's the bottom line. They played nine games now against two teams with the worst records in baseball. They have a losing record in those nine games. They're 4-5.
Chapter 7: What are the key players to watch for the Cubs moving forward?
It was a bad road trip. You can't go 3-3 on a road trip like that. So if you do drop a series to the Rockies, you have to sweep the Giants. And they got saving grace. They got three more with the Rockies.
Chapter 8: How does the Cubs' current lineup affect their playoff chances?
Here's the reality of the situation, Mark. There were some positives to be taken away from this road trip, and we'll get into that. But if you're the Cubs and you don't find a way to do better than 6-6 over this 12-game stretch, and they could win this series at home, and they would just be 6-6. They need a sweep. And if they don't do that...
I guarantee you, regardless of where they finish at the end of the season, they will look back at these 12 games as a data point of where you should have done more, and now you're paying the price.
Yeah. I mean, the good news for the Cubs is, yeah, they had one of the hardest schedules early on in the season, so it will continue to be relatively light. Again, light relative to earlier in the season. But you're right. During this stretch, they have not taken advantage of it. Colorado is here tonight. It is actually a rematch.
of last Wednesday's game where the Rockies beat the Cubs by a final of 3-2. Show to Imanaga against Michael Lorenzen. Both actually pitched very well, did Imanaga and Lorenzen the last time these two teams got together. But... There do continue to be some really interesting stories with the Cubs, even in not sweeping this weekend.
If we were to go with the Marshall plan, then it's a disappointing weekend for the Cubs. In the Friday game, there he was again, Javier Saad, with six shutout innings for the Cubs, three hits, struck out five in that one. And then Ben Brown, who did not look as sharp as he had been looking last
He previously, but still manages, and this is the sign of a guy, a developing pitcher, one who when you don't have your best stuff, as was the case for Ben Brown on Saturday, you still plow through it. And he did with one run, seven hits, struck out three, did walk three over 86. But he battled in that one, and the Cubs went in that game 6-1. So those stories continue to be good for the Cubs.
Bottom line is they found a way to win two out of three games against a bad Giants team despite going two for 21 in the series with runners in scoring position. Got to get a whole lot better. Two for 21. Now, that being said, I am highly encouraged by a few things that I saw on this road trip and in this series, right? Because two times on this trip, they hit three home runs in a game.
That had happened, you got to go back like more than a month to see the last time that they had hit three home runs in a same game situation. So flashes of pop. But the problem is they're only flashes. They need to have more slug as a team. And I think the biggest thing for me is looking at the players like PCA, who's batting now 392 in the month of June.
In 17 games on the leadoff spot, he's batting .352. He's found a home in the leadoff spot. I wish we could get him some at-bats, though, with runners in scoring position, because he's a guy who on the season is hitting .317 with runners in scoring position.
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