Their worst stretch of play in months could not come at a much worse time for the Chicago Cubs.
The veteran team will need to regroup on Monday’s off day following a dreadful 1-5 trip against the Colorado Rockies and Arizona Diamondbacks. Their five consecutive losses culminated with Sunday’s 6-2 defeat, getting swept for the first time in almost three months, sending the Cubs back to Chicago for their final homestand as they desperately try to hold onto their playoff position.
“They were better than we were in all aspects of the game,” manager David Ross said of the Diamondbacks. “They played better defense, they pitched better, they had timely hitting, they ran the bases better. We got beat all the way around. A bad road trip. Try to wash it on the off day tomorrow.”The Cubs wasted their best opportunity to erase Arizona’s lead and produce a big inning. They drove in just one run on Cody Bellinger’s double-play grounder.
“It definitely hasn’t been ideal, it’s been frustrating,” Bellinger said. “I think overall the past week there’s been a lot of unfortunate bounces and overall as a whole pretty disappointing, but looking in the future, we’re still in a good spot. A good amount of games left to play and just trust the group in here and myself to continue to roll and hopefully get on a hot little stretch.”
Their issues with scoring runs Sunday played into a larger problem the last 10 days with the offensive struggles becoming particularly pronounced in high-leverage moments. During the three-game series at Chase Field, spanning 31 innings, the Cubs left 27 runners on base. They failed to put a runner in scoring position in Friday’s 6-4 loss.“We get to those moments and we have to lock in, grind a little bit harder in those moments and not get too anxious,” Ross said. “We had a lot of traffic.
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