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CHICAGO -- Chicago Cubs president Jed Hoyer isn’t panicking over his team’s protracted slump so far this season.
Routed 18-3 by San Francisco on Friday, Chicago has won just six of its last 25 games and fell to 33-31 overall for fourth place in the NL Central.
That follows a 20-3 run that drove the Cubs to a 27-12 record on May 8 when they prevailed 7-1 at Texas to complete their second of two 10-game winning streaks this season.
Chicago is just the second team in major league history to have two 10-game winning streaks and a 10-game losing streak in the same season, along with the 2017 Dodgers.
“That Friday game in Texas, I thought we looked like World Series quality at-bats in that game and we played great,” Hoyer told reporters before Friday’s game at Wrigley Field. “We haven’t really played well since then.
“We need to get back to playing like that again. We need to do it fairly soon. We got way over .500. We cashed a lot of that in, unfortunately.”