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Cubs’ Kyle Hendricks is betting on himself to give team what it needs in home stretch

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The Cubs’ Kyle Hendricks beat the Royals on Sunday for only his second win in two months.

How long has it been since Cubs starter Kyle Hendricks was completely locked in and at the top of his game? Not just on a given day, that is, but as a matter of routine.

Peak “Professor,” in other words.

“It’s been a little while, for sure. Maybe a point in 2020?” he said Sunday after pitching into the seventh inning of the Cubs’ 4-3 win against the Royals at Wrigley Field.

Three years is an eternity in a baseball career.