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In the early 2021 going, pitchers are still lousy hitters
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No, I’m not going to stop beating this drum.
And no, it’s not impossible that MLB’s moguls will finally realize that they need to do the right thing and institute the universal DH even in the middle of the 2021 season. There’s no reason not to do it.
Pitchers, who have been terrible hitters for decades, have begun 2021 even worse than usual.
Through Thursday’s games, pitchers are hitting .119/.133/.166 (20-for-168) with 95 strikeouts. There have been a total of 186 pitcher plate appearances, so pitchers have struck out in 51.1 percent of those PA, a significant increase over the 43.5 percent of PA that resulted in a pitcher strikeout the last time pitchers batted in 2019.
Brewers 4, Cubs 2: Raising Cain
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One thing is for certain for the 2021 Chicago Cubs.
They are not going to win many games if they don’t start hitting.
Eight hits in three games, seven total runs, somehow the Cubs managed to win one of those games, but that sort of thing isn’t going to work all season.
The Cubs have only 20 hits in the six games so far this year. Even the Mets have more and they’ve played three fewer games, for heaven’s sake.
Anyway, the Cubs generally got good pitching on a day that felt more like June than April at Wrigley Field, except when it came to Brewers center fielder Lorenzo Cain, who homered in consecutive at-bats in the eighth and 10th, the latter with two runners on base to give Milwaukee the win.