CHICAGO — Kyle Schwarber hopes two weeks at Triple-A Iowa helped fix his ailing swing.
The Chicago Cubs outfielder was activated Thursday and promptly was restored to the starting lineup, batting fifth in a makeup game against the Milwaukee Brewers. He went 0-for-4 in the Cubs’ 11-2 loss.
Now he hopes to resume his role as a lineup fixture when the Cubs wrap up the season’s first half with a three-game series against the Pittsburgh Pirates that opens Friday at Wrigley Field.
“We hashed things out … I feel like it went really well and had a really good plan going into it,” Schwarber said of his time at Iowa, where he hit .