David DeJesus and Starlin Castro were both 4-5 in the game, but the next five Cubs in batting order were a combined 2-22. Paul Maholm won four straight from April 21 to May 9, but hasn’t won in his last eigtht starts.

He hasn’t won because, for the most part, the team hasn’t scored.

It was good to see Dayan Viciedo break his slump last night. Gordon Beckham is hitting .306 in his last ten games and has hit safely in 8 of his last 9 games. He had 5 HR’s and 14 RBI on May 31, but has hit 4 HR’s and drove in 18 runs in the first 23 days of June.

Mike Fiers starts today for the Brewers against Jose Quintana. Fiers has won two 7 inning starts, allowing one run both times. He lost his other two starts giving up 4 runs in each of those starts. Quintana has not allowed more than 2 runs to score in any of his 5 starts. Axelrod didn’t pitch that well last night. He was fortunate he was pitching last night, since the Sox had scored 5 runs total over the previous 4 games.

BigBadBill - 24 June 2012 08:45 AM

He hasn’t won because, for the most part, the team hasn’t scored.

Maholm didn’t receive any runs in two shutouts, plus won one game by a 1-0 score. Must be why he took things into his hands last night and produced his own offense.