It goes without saying that getting production from guys in the heart of your order is an integral part of your team’s success. But as I watched the Cubs win four games in a row, largely on the strength of Anthony Rizzo’s rediscovered power stroke, I decided to look a bit more into the correlation between Rizzo’s bat and the Cubs’ results.
To that end, I checked back on the 18 games in which Rizzo has homered (two 2-HR games) and found that the Cubs are 14-4. That’s a winning percentage of .778, just slightly higher than their overall .