CINCINNATI – As Cubs third baseman Patrick Wisdom’s three-run homer dropped in the right-center field seats at Great American Ball Park, it extended a streak the club hadn’t witnessed in years.
Including the Cubs’ 7-4 win against the Reds on Monday, Wisdom has homered in four straight games.
The last Cub to do so was Anthony Rizzo in 2015.
That year the Cubs’ rebuild surged ahead of schedule. A lot would have to fall the Cubs’ way for that to happen again. But a flexible approach to team building partially explains president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer’s unwillingness to put a date on the next time the Cubs will be a division contender.