I told you, told you, TOLD YOU the Cubs weren’t as bad as they had shown over the 2021 season’s first 13 games.
Maybe 13 was the good-luck number, because in Game 14 the Cubs smashed six home runs and scored 13 runs in a 13-4 crushing of the Braves.
In the Cubs’ previous six games they had scored a total of 11 runs, so they outdid that by a pair. The six homers fell one short of the franchise record of seven, which hasn’t been done since 1977 — and all of that on a chilly, but sunny Wrigley afternoon when the wind was mostly blowing in.