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I'm officially panicking, Cubs lose to Reds 4-3
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I’m not even sure what to say, to be honest.
Yesterday’s loss to the Reds was one of the worst of the season for me. No question.
After Saturday’s win, I really thought the Cubs had something going again. I thought (hoped?) that they’d gotten all the losing out of their system and were beginning to right the ship again.
And then yesterday’s game happened…
I don’t want to take anything away from Marshall who really did pitch a beautiful 6 innings, allowing only 1 run off 3 hits. I was feeling good about him filling in for Zambrano for the start. And then Cotts came in for some middle relief and despite an error, also looked strong as did Marmol and then Wood…. Uh oh.
Wood struggled to find the strike zone during most of his appearance (Bob Brenly suggested he might have been overthrowing since he hadn’t pitched in almost a week) and then a booted ball error by Cendeno tied the game.
Sigh.
There a million rational, positive ways to approach our current situation. I mean, come on, right? We still have a 4 game lead over the Brewers and the best record in the National League. That said, it’s hard to rally around these stats too much since the only reason that we’re still so far ahead is that other teams (specifically the Brewers who got 2 hit by a BAD Padres ball club yesterday) have been losing too.
I don’t know. This doesn’t feel good and it doesn’t feel like there’s an end in sight to this losing.
Hopefully the team will be buoyed a bit by the upcoming series in St. Louis (sometimes a good couple of games against a rival can really change things) but I don’t know. I have lost a lot of faith in this team.
Just a week and a half ago I wrote about how any player on any day could be the hero and that you never knew with this team where a win might come from, all you knew was that it would indeed come. I’ve certainly lost that confidence in this team a bit, but I hope they’ve still got it in themselves.
Here’s to hoping that the boys can pull themselves up by their bootstraps and fix this thing Tuesday night in St. Louis.
‘Til then, chin up.
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