If you closed your eyes Friday afternoon at Wrigley Field during the first few innings, you could feel how it was back in the 1960s or 1970s when pitchers like Fergie Jenkins, Bob Gibson and Juan Marichal (to keep this idea in line with Friday’s opponent) were mowing down hitters and games sped their way along.
Kyle Hendricks threw seven outstanding innings and a seventh-inning rally by Cubs hitters led to a 6-2 win over the Giants on the most beautiful weather day we’ve had in Chicago so far this spring.
Hendricks was magnificent.