After one month of baseball Tyler Chatwood leads the Chicago Cubs starting pitchers with a 2.83 ERA, Jason Heyward has more home runs than Anthony Rizzo, but after Sunday’s 2-0 win they’re 15-10.
The Cubs are hitting their stride late in April by kicking the Milwaukee Brewers in the mouth. Behind Chatwood’s seven scoreless innings, the Cubs finished off their four-game sweep of the Brewers, allowing only two runs at Wrigley Field this series.
Overall in eight matchups against Milwaukee, Cubs pitching has given up a total of nine runs. That includes three shutouts this series and five in the eight games between the two teams.
Not only was Chatwood on his game on the mound Sunday, he also provided the only run the Cubs would need for the win.
It was Chatwood’s first hit with the Cubs and it gave himself a 1-0 lead in the fifth inning.
Tyler Chatwood's 1st hit with the #Cubs is an RBI-single! pic.twitter.com/kTVe98MID9
— Pinwheels and Ivy Podcast (@PinwheelsIvyPod) April 29, 2018
Addison Russell scored after leading off the inning with a triple. Russell added the second run, hitting a sac-fly in the sixth.
This recent run of success has started with the rotation, as Sunday was the sixth straight quality start for the Cubs after only getting seven quality starts in their first 19 games.
Today was #Cubs 6th straight quality start. They had 7 QS in 1st 19 games
— Carrie Muskat (@CarrieMuskat) April 29, 2018
Kyle Hendricks, Yu Darvish, Jose Quintana and Chatwood did not allow an earned run against the Brewers.
ZERO earned runs allowed by #Cubs starters this series. SWEEP! pic.twitter.com/32Yvb3WrMn
— Aldo Soto (@AldoSoto21) April 29, 2018
Remember all that panicking a few weeks ago? Yeah, the Cubs are going to be great this season. Sit back, relax and enjoy the ride.
