I’ve made a lot of jokes here, when the Cubs put a not-so-great lineup on the field, wondering “Where is the other split squad playing?” Saturday night was one of those games, a lineup that looked like the Cubs were playing a spring road game in Goodyear, and it showed when the team had just two hits in losing.
Sunday afternoon against Padres lefthander Ryan Weathers, David Ross sent out five players who weren’t in Saturday’s lineup (Patrick Wisdom, Trey Mancini, Yan Gomes, Christopher Morel and Miguel Amaya) and, perhaps not coincidentally, the result was an 11-hit attack that included three home runs and the Cubs won their second game of this four-game set, 7-1 over the Padres.