“I think consistency is what we’re trying to find, and when you play one of the best teams in baseball you realize we’ve got some areas we need to improve. You can’t get behind the eight ball that much early on.”, to open the trip in Baltimore. If the Cubs have pieces in house to build Jed Hoyer’s “next great Cubs team,” Thompson is supposed to be a candidate to be one of them.
At one point in the third inning Sunday, when Kyle Higashioka homered to make it 9-1, seven different Yankees had hit eight homers in a 11-inning span. Matt Carpenter hit his second of Sunday’s game in the sixth, and Higashioka added his second in the eighth — making it 10 homers in 16 innings.The Yankees led 12-4 by the time the Cubs recorded their first hit with a man in scoring position since Sunday — Ian Happ delivering a single with P.J. Higgins at second base.
That’s when Marwin Gonzalez popped up a Thompson pitch in front of the plate with one out and two on.
Seriously don’t know why the Cubs bother to show up to play the Yankees. So embarrassing. FAIL