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In a ’45 groove, Cubs win 8th straight, No. 70
- Updated: August 10, 2016
CHICAGO — John Lackey and Jered Weaver were former teammates on the Angels, and had met twice before, splitting those games. Lackey now has the edge and the Cubs have an eight-game winning streak, thanks to a high-powered offensive attack.
Kris Bryant belted his 28th home run, a 414-foot shot that landed on Waveland Avenue, and Willson Contreras added a solo shot in the Cubs’ 5-1 Interleague victory Tuesday night over the Angels in front of 41,227 at Wrigley Field that sent Chicago to its 70th win, the quickest the Cubs have reached 70 wins since 1945, which was their last World Series appearance. The eight straight wins for the 70-41 Cubs matches their season high, also done May 2-10.
“Our confidence is high right now,” said Chicago’s Ben Zobrist, who added an RBI double in the fourth. “You have to try to keep it going as long as you can. We still have a lot of games to play yet, so we’re not watching the scoreboard or anything like that. We’re trying to come in and play good baseball. We’ve been doing a good job of that since the All-Star break, and we’re going to try to continue that.”
Lackey served up Kole Calhoun’s 11th homer on the third pitch of the game, and gave up two more hits over eight innings for the win. Lackey admitted it was weird facing his former teammate.
“I root for him when he’s not facing us,” Lackey said of Weaver. “He’s a good friend and I respect the way he’s still competing and still getting after it with stuff that’s less than it used to be. He’s still grinding and still getting it done.”
Weaver lasted just five innings, allowed all five Cubs runs (four earned), and committed an error that led to a run in the fifth.
“It’s not an easy lineup to face,” Weaver said. “They’ve got one of those lineups where you can’t really breathe while you’re out there. There’s no leeway. So, I grinded and tried to make some outs, and some things didn’t go my way there toward the end. It was just a grind.”
MOMENTS THAT MATTEREDIn and out: With one out in the Chicago fifth, Dexter Fowler hit a popup …
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