The last time Carlos Gonzalez was at Wrigley Field, he saw a struggling group of hitters that looked even to his Colorado Rockies like the what team president Theo Epstein would describe a day later as a “broken” offense.
“There was something about the team that wasn’t the same as in the past,” said Gonzalez, whose Rockies beat the Cubs in 13 innings to eliminate them in the wild-card game last October. “We ended up winning the game, and I think a lot of that is because it seemed like they were a little down, because they struggled at the end of the year.