Cubs right-hander Kyle Hendricks hasn’t been able to get away with many mistakes recently.
Even as a guy who pitches to contact, teams had made him pay for leaving pitches over the plate in his last two starts, a trend he knew he had to correct.
‘‘It’s one of two things right now,’’ Hendricks said after his last start. ‘‘I’m either a little too predictable, so when I do make a good pitch, they’re kind of on it. That was probably the case there. Or I’m just not getting away with the bad pitches that I make.