The Cubs have had an up-and-down first “half” (really, 61 percent of the season has been completed at this point). They looked like world-beaters for a month, then awful for two months, and recently they’ve started to look pretty good again.
Those break down to the following records:
March 28 to April 26: 17-9
April 27 to July 3: 22-39
July 4 to July 14: 8-3So which team is the real Cubs? The one that played two months’ worth of .361 baseball? Or the one that was close to first place most of April?