If you took care of business all year long, you’d never blink twice about a 5-4 road trip, even against three non-playoff teams. But the Cubs have bobbed along right around .500 over their last 49 games. That’s going on a two month long stretch. This trip saw the Cubs lose some winnable games. They ran into a Giants team playing well after their own stretch of underachieving. Then today, they had a rough Denver game. That’s not normally all that frustrating, but as the Rockies sit with the worst record in baseball, it’s tough to take.
For what it’s worth, if anyone is looking for the silver lining, the Rockies are 39-98 (.285). They win a little less than 30 percent of the games they play. The Cubs won five of six against them. If you don’t do math quickly in your head, that means the Cubs won 83 percent of the games they played against the Rockies. That’s one of the fun things about small samples next to big samples. But this would be better than that expectation. So in the aggregate, this was fine. The one loss being on the road, that feels right too. This silver lining doesn’t fix anything.