Chicago Cubs vs. Pittsburgh Pirates preview, Saturday 4/10, 5:35 CT
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Saturday notes:
KB ON TRACK: Kris Bryant’s home run on Thursday was his second of the season in the team’s seventh game. It’s the quickest he’s reached his second homer of any season, surpassing the eight team games it took in 2018. Dating to the final two games of the 2020 season, Bryant has homered in four of his last nine regular season contests.
ZACH ON TRACK: Zach Davies enters tonight’s outing having not allowed an earned run in his last 16⅔ innings on the road dating to August 17, 2020 at Texas while with the Padres.. The righthander enters this evening having allowed three or fewer earned runs in a career‐high 19 straight outings since August 31, 2019. More on tonight’s pitching matchup below.
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Thanks to the server database issue that killed most of our day yesterday, there were no Cubs Bullets. Except I’d already written the whole dang thing when I went to publish and the database died. I broke off a chunk and turned it into the Joc Pederson post, and now I’m combing through what else I can still share today of interest to you, while adding in the new stuff …
• I’m still really enjoying the idea that the Cubs had Jake Arrieta on the mound yesterday making a quality start, and got homers from Kris Bryant, Javy Báez, and Anthony Rizzo. The nostalgia zone got hit as hard as these balls:
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.