UPDATE: THEY WON!
Holy shit! They did it. After looking like a dead team walking the Chicago Cubs had a dramatic walk-off win in Thursday’s series finale to salvage a game against the Athletics.
I can’t believe it. Read about it here.
And for a look into a mentally ill fan that is way too emotionally dependent on how the Cubs do on a daily basis, then proceed to read my earlier freak out when the Cubs were down 6-1 in the seventh.
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Actually, who knows, maybe they’ll keep sinking because the offense has shown no signs of life, the pitching stinks, and even on a night when Pete Crow-Armstrong homered to extend his excellent streak of hitting during the past few weeks he’ll only be talked about because he lost a ball in the sky.
After winning 15 straight games at home, the Chicago Cubs are on the verge of losing nine straight at Wrigley Field. Shōta Imanaga looked great on Thursday night until he didn’t. A solo home run in the fourth broke a scoreless tie, and then the Athletics added three more in the sixth, capped off by a two-run, inside-the-park home run by Shea Langeliers. His fly ball to center field dropped behind Crow-Armstrong, who almost immediately put his hands up, indicating he had no idea where it was.
Langeliers raced around the bases for his second home run of the night.
The Athletics hit two more home runs off Imanaga in the seventh, back-to-back shots by Tyler Soderstrom and Jonah Heim that gave them a 6-1 lead over the Cubs.
As for the Cubs offense, it’s been another night of impotence. A total of two hits through six innings against right-handed starter J.T. Ginn. A Moises Ballesteros second-inning single was quickly erased by a double play, and the lone run came on a Crow-Armstrong home run in the sixth, his ninth of the season.
Ian Happ did demolish a two-run homer in the seventh, but it might be a little too late for the Cubs.
If the Athletics hold on, it’ll mark nine straight losses at home by the Cubs. Also, dating back to May 9, the Cubs would fall to 5-19 during this current 24-game stretch, putting them at 32-31.
What an absolute disaster of a season this has turned into for Craig Counsell. Sure, the starting rotation has been dismantled by injuries, but for the most part, every veteran has been on the field on offense. Since May 9, there have been no zero answers to cure a dead offense. Outside of Happ’s hot streaks, Michael Busch, and Crow-Armstrong, the lineup has been pathetic for the past month. It hasn’t mattered where Counsell puts guys in the lineup because they haven’t produced consistently since the first week of May.
The start of this series against the Athletics began a stretch of 22 games in a row against teams with below .500 records. As we’ve seen, right now, it doesn’t matter who the Cubs play; they are a bad team.
