CINCINNATI — The Chicago Cubs’ search for consistency continues.
The Cubs sanctuary’t won more than 2 videogames in a row in almost 6 weeks when they strung together 4 successive triumphes from April 23-26. Opportunities to take benefit of playing department competitors in the last 3 weeks sanctuary’t yielded the results they’ve required, with Thursday’s 8-4 loss to the Cincinnati Reds the newest videogame example. They fell to 31-32 with the loss.
Trying to construct favorable momentum from series to series endsupbeing more tough when the highs are interrupted so rapidly by the lows. Thursday’s loss highlighted both sides of the Cubs’ efforts to get on an extended roll.
Highs
Middle of the order proving slug
If the Cubs are going to endedupbeing a playoff group this season, they requirement the middle of the lineup — specifically Seiya Suzuki, Cody Bellinger and Christopher Morel — to produce regularly.
The trio accounted for 4 of the Cubs’ 5 strikes Thursday with 3 going for additional bases. Suzuki and Morel each linked for two-run homers, and Bellinger’s double in the 6th preceded Morel’s 415-foot blast to center field.
“He’s had some huge swings recently for sure, and we’re beginning to see him drive the baseball, which we requirement so great indications for sure,” supervisor Craig Counsell stated of Suzuki. “It feels like the middle-of-the- order guys are where they requirement to be. It’s not the exactsame guy every day. With the various guys that le