OAKLAND, Calif. – Is there a team in baseball feeling as good as the Chicago Cubs are right now? After Kyle Hendricks pitched them to another win on Sunday – their seventh in a row – the Cubs return home from the West Coast in even better shape than when they arrived.
“This is trending in the right direction,” manager Joe Maddon said after Sunday’s 3-1 win over the Oakland A's. “It’s up to us to maintain that daily and not get too far ahead of ourselves. I don’t think our group will.