If you were hoping the Chicago Cubs would use Friday's opener against St. Louis to get things back on track, you woke up on Saturday sorely disappointed. Once again, the bats were nonexistent and the cherry on top was Ryan Brasier failed to keep things close after coming on in relief of Matthew Boyd.
So now the Cubs are five games back of Milwaukee in the divisional race. The big bats show no sign of snapping their recent cold streaks and things just aren't feeling great right now. The hope is that the impending returns of Miguel Amaya, Javier Assad and Jameson Taillon can help turn things around, and when the latter two come back, Brasier feels like the odd man out in the equation.