Chicago Cubs Continue to Impress But Taking it One Game at A Time
The Chicago Cubs are on a roll but they are only worried about their next game. The Cubs defeated the San Francisco Giants on Sunday afternoon 2-0 for a four game sweep of one of the teams they are battling for a wildcard spot.
Anthony Rizzo one of Chicago’s sluggers, said on Sunday before the game that Joe does not care about tomorrow.
He was referencing the fact that Joe Maddon his manager is only concerned with the game at hand and nothing else.
The Cubs win on Sunday gave them 10 wins in their past 11 games. The media wants Maddon to look down the road, but the Cubs manager will not have anything of it. He wants to worry about his next game.
Of course, he does watch the standings and the scores, but when it gets right down to it, he says it is all about the game you are playing that day.
Maddon was impressed with his team’s sweep of the Giants which put them 3 ½ games in front of the Giants for the first wildcard spot.
The Cubs sweep reached a new point shortly after the game when police evacuated the press box and everyone inside Wrigley Field for a period of 1 hour following a bomb threat.
Maddon spoke superlatives of his players saying how impressed he was to sweep such a strong team.
Chicago has played superbly since picking up a few players during the week of the trade deadline and if their pitching can hold up, they will be tough to beat in the National League during the last two months.
Chicago now sits at 62-48 winners of four straight and 9 of their past 10. They are 8 ½ games behind the first place St. Louis Cardinals in the National League Central and 3 1/2 games behind the second place Pittsburgh Pirates.
Chicago has Monday off and then will host the Milwaukee Brewers for three games starting Tuesday. Then the Cubs will play an inter-city series at the Chicago White Sox.
Maddon hopes that his players will remain fixed on the game at hand and not look off into the future wondering what other teams will reach the postseason and whom they will face.
The Cubs manager knows that in a short stretch of 6 to 8 games his team could be out of the postseason picture, which could easily happen unless he is able to keep them focused and looking to the future, but just the future at hand.
