Saturday notes:
- Cubs starters have a 2.70 ERA (46 earned runs in 153u2153 innings) over their last 27 games. That’s the best starter ERA in the National League over that span.
- Friday night, Cole Hamels became the fifth Cub to remain unbeaten in his first nine starts as a Cub, and the first since Carlos Silva was 8-0 in his first 11 starts in 2010. Mordecai Brown was 11-0 in his first 11 starts as a Cub in 1908 and Taylor Phillips was 4-0 in his first 11 starts in 1958.