The Cubs are heatin' up
If you think winning five in a row is easy, well, they don't do this very often
If I told you the Cubs are currently on their longest winning streak in over a year, without thinking too hard, how many games in a row would you assume they had won? Eight? Nine?
With their come from behind win over the New York Mess yesterday, the Cubs swept the series (the Mess have lost 11 in a row, yikes), with wins in the final two games of the Phillies series that gives the Cubs five in a row.
Despite winning 92 games last year (something Jed Hoyer reminds us of all the time, as if that means anything considering they won...nothing) their longest winning streak was from March 31 to April 5.
They were remarkably, mediocrely consistent last year, never winning more than five in a row, or losing more than five in a row.
Craig Counsell has been manager of the Cubs for 345 games and the longest winning streak they've had in that time is six. They did that from August 27 through September 1, 2004 with sweeps of Pissburgh and Washington. Those teams combined to finish 30 games under .500. (Fewer than I assumed.)
The longest winning streak the Cubs have had since Joe Maddon left was eight games in 2023 under the great David Ross. Ol' Rossy was a real whiz when it came to streaks. In 2021 he was one loss away from being the only manager in MLB history whose team had three losing streaks of at least 10 games in the same season.
Woof.
