Where do the struggling Cubs go from here?
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What recent struggles have the Cubs faced against the Giants?
Rahimi Harris and Grody. Middays 10 to 2. On 104.3 The Score. And now the next offering. Drilled in the air. Deep left field. This is going to leave the yard. A long home run from Matt Chapman. He now has eight runs batted in in the game. And that's got to be close to a career high for him. He had a grand slam, a sack fly, and now a three-run homer. And he's up to 31 RBIs for the year.
How did Matt Chapman perform in the recent game?
My God, that was a nightmare that day. Welcome back into Rahimi Harrison-Grody on the score. Pat Hughes right here on 670 the score. Every once in a while I like to throw in a 670 the score here too. But that game on Friday, San Francisco beats the Cubs. 18-3. The Giants hit seven home runs, and this was after the triumphant 7-6 win over the A's from the day before, where it's supposed to be the, now you're on the right track, let's get you going, and along comes an 18-3 win for San Francisco over the Cubs. By the way, that is the day, by the way, that my mother decided to suspend viewing of of all cubs games for the next week and while she was at it she said i'm sorry but if you guys are going to talk about that stadium all that i i can't take any more stadium talk i'm going to turn you right off so we'll have to make sure that we warn my mom in advance but she has suspended the cubs interviewing and taking in of game did you take her seriously when she said it
Yes. Oh, yeah. No, my mom's being dead serious. So on the good side. She's not like me. She doesn't have jokes.
She didn't have to witness what happened last night on the bad side. What a game to miss on Saturday.
Well, I haven't talked to her, so we'll see if we stuck to it. I drove with them on Saturday to a graduation party. My mom would not put the game on the radio. Are you serious? I am dead serious. My dad's up there going, she's not going to do it. We were listening to US 99 the whole time. My mom was just rocking out modern country because she has suspended all listening to and viewing. For one week, she has made this decision. Like I said, she is serious about it. My dad and I were just like, I don't know what we're going to do here. I had the phone, of course.
You know what's crazy is that I'm sitting here watching that game on Friday, and I'm like, wait a minute. What happened to Matt Chapman? Why is he batting seventh in the lineup? If he's going to be out here... hitting home runs, and driving it eight runs in a game, and then watching last night's game, who came up with the game-winning hit, I was like, did I miss Matt Chapman's fall-off? Because he looked very much like the Matt Chapman I remember in this series.
A very simple hit in the 10th inning last night. Something the Cubs couldn't do. Yeah, just a dribbler essentially into right off of old Trent Thornton, and the Cubs end up losing to San Francisco 2-1 in 10. And even... The win they had on Saturday was fun. The game that I was not allowed to listen to on our travels to St. Charles. But Ben Brown continues to be a revelation. Five and a third, zero runs. That's where you had PCA with the game tying home run in the ninth on the first pitch. Bush with the game winning hit. So it's entertaining and all, but it's just too hard. It's too stressful right now. And I get it. Maybe I need to... I can't, but I would like to suspend viewing and listening to the Cubs as well.
No, don't do that. What I do need you to do is suspend your expectations for the Cubs. How about that? Oh, no. How about that? Because what I learned this past week as they faced an A's team that is still scrapping for a playoff spot, because they play in the American League West, and I watched a bad Giants team, is that the Cubs... They're not good enough. And when I say they're not good enough, here's what I mean by that. They would have gone 0-6 this week if not for PCA having just an outstanding hair-on-fire week, four home runs over the course of four days, hitting almost 500 in the month of June so far against this bad competition. And yet the only games they won were the games where PCA went off.
And I'm setting this up, Mark, just to let you know.
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