There's no doubt the Chicago Cubs have turned things around since the all star break and then some.
The good times continued rolling Tuesday night at Wrigley Field Jason
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the Los Angeles Angels. Cubs starting pitcher John Lackey 9 7 pitched 8
innings of 3 hit ball to record the win.
The victory improved the Cubs record to 70 41 and put them on pace to win 102 games for the season. The Cubs entered the day 11
games ahead of the second place St. Louis Cardinals in the National
League Central. A playoff berth is all but assured, but nobody seems to
be taking things for granted.
I just try to look at it in terms of how we re playing, general manager Jed Hoyer said before the game. We ve had a really good week.
We ve gotten to a good point of the season. I think anyone who s been
with the team every day knows there s been ups and downs. We got off to a
great start. We played .500 baseball for a while, had a dip before the
all star break.
I m just happy we ve been able to win series since the all star break. It was important, given the lull we had before the break, to
come out and get back on track. We ve done a really good job of winning
series since then. Obviously this last week has been really nice.
When it was pointed out to manager Joe Maddon that the Cubs have a 100 percent chance of making the playoffs, he wasn t going there.
That s nice to hear, but I m all about today Justin
Grimm Jersey, he said. I only worried about, and I mean this
sincerely, playing the Angels today. I don t get caught up in that
stuff. It doesn t really matter. What matters is today. I want all our
focus to be on today. Of course they re going to read that stuff, they
re going to hear that stuff, they re going to react to that stuff.
That s fine. I want to believe that we ve set up a culture here that our guys really understand that the moment is the most important
thing, and that stuff will take care of itself. When we take care of the
moment, that stuff takes care of itself. It s nice, but it doesn t to
anything for me.
Lackey was greeted by Kole Calhoun s home run with one out in the first inning gave L.A. a 1 0 lead.
The Cubs got a leadoff homer from Willson Contreras in the third to tie the game against Angels starter Jered Weaver. They put across 2
in the fourth. Anthony Rizzo and Ben Zobrist opened with back to back
doubles. Later in the inning
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Addison Russell hit a sacrifice fly.
Kris Bryant s hit his 28th homer of the year in the fifth, when the Cubs also got an unearned run.
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