CINCINNATI – Hell-bent on changing their road fortunes this season, the Cubs dispatched mental skills program coordinator Bob Tewksbury to Cincinnati for the start of a 10-game trip Thursday.
Players also arrived at Great American Ball Park to find their pinstriped, home-white jerseys hanging at their lockers in the clubhouse.
Talk about mind games.
If not desperate measures.
“We’ve got to do something,” manager Joe Maddon said, adding he would have the players wear the home jerseys if allowed.
“I like the fact that we’re taking it seriously in the sense that, we’re maybe poking fun at that a little bit, but it definitely brings to our attention, ‘Let’s go, boys.