Just when you were wondering whether Kyle Hendricks would ever get back to his old form, he flashed brilliance Friday night in St. Louis.
Hendricks allowed just five hits, and threw an efficient 91 pitches before being lifted with one out and two runners on base in the bottom of the seventh. Chris Martin bailed him out of that eighth inning and David Robertson threw a 1-2-3 ninth for his ninth save, and the Cubs posted their eighth shutout win of 2022, 3-0 over the Cardinals, in the series opener in St. Louis.
In case you didn’t notice something in that outstanding outing, I did.