“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you…” – Rudyard Kipling
Cubs hitters really need to do some soul searching after following Tuesday’s 1-for-25 performance with yesterday’s 3-for-33 debacle. I suppose there are two ways to think about their current stretch of futility:
- With a .124 team batting average, the Cubs could start today’s game against the Pirates with 20 consecutive hits and still be batting just .212; or
- Just forget about the first six games and hope the team can hit at a .