The Cubs’ starting pitching staff is going through an incredibly dominant stretch right now. Check out these numbers covering their six wins going back to last week: 41.2 IP, 3 ER, 51 K, 8 BB, 0.65 ERA, 0.68 WHIP. There were three shutouts in those six victories
That is how you slam the brakes on a slow start. Sure, there was the one ugly outing against the Angels last Saturday, but nobody’s perfect and that was mostly on the bullpen, anyway. Even with that performance, the starting staff has an ERA of less than 1.00 in winning six of seven.