The Cubs are 5-7 in August and 11-13 since the All-Star Break, dragging them eight games behind the Brewers with a long series looming. Before that gets here, however, they’ve got to go through a Pirates team that has dropped five straight and won’t have Paul Skenes going. This should — SHOULD — be an easy series for the Cubs to win, but nothing is easy when you score less than three runs per game.
Though they’ve averaged 3.67 tallies since the break, the Cubs are at 2.92 in August after failing to scratch out more than one yesterday.