After pounding the Cincinnati Reds all over Wrigley Field this past weekend — three wins with 16 runs and 23 hits recorded — the Cubs appear to have left their proverbial hitting shoes in Chicago.
They’ve had just five hits in two games against the very same Reds in Cincinnati, in a ballpark that’s generally known as a hitters’ paradise. Two of the three hits the Cubs recorded Tuesday night were home runs, but they weren’t enough and so the team went down to their second straight defeat, 3-2 to the Reds. The good news, if there is any, from that is that this is the first time the Cubs have lost consecutive games in more than two weeks, since they lost three in a row to the Rockies and Marlins September 17-19.