There are still more naysayers than the combined total of Cubs hits and Mets gaffes Wednesday night, but it’s becoming apparent that fortunes have begun to shift on the North Side. Even taking into account the frustrating continuation of offensive tropes that have been around for years now, the erly lack of hitting defied all manner of logic. So the Cubs didn’t necessarily need to re-write their whole book, they just needed to correct a few typos and maybe add a chapter or two.
That got started in the series opener against the Mets, a relatively pedestrian affair in which the Cubs managed to plate three runs on just four hits while striking out 12 times.