One game can’t really turn a season around, but Tuesday’s (or Wednesday’s, if we’re going by non-West Coast time) win sure did make things feel a lot better in Cubdom. It didn’t start out that way, though. Not only were the Cubs’ bats silent largely silent against LA starter Ross Stripling, but there was a bit of public unease when word leaked that hitting coach Chili Davis had called for a pregame meeting.
Men in Davis’s are often targets for fan ire when a team isn’t hitting because, well, they’re hitting coaches. And when the feast-or-famine Cubs are riding a roller coaster of similar design to the one the Red Sox rode last season, people start to connect dots.