Chicago Cubs’ Dansby Swanson homered out of his slump Sunday. The Cubs need offense while waiting for key players to return.
Chicago Cubs shortstop Dansby Swanson celebrates in the dugout after hitting a solo home run during the sixth inning against the Milwaukee Brewers at Wrigley Field on Sunday, May 5, 2024. As the temperatures start to heat up, the question around the Chicago Cubs is: when will the bats heat up as well?on Sunday, the Cubs didn’t register their first hit until the third inning when left fielder Ian Happ singled on a line drive to center.
With Cody Bellinger and Seiya Suzuki out of the lineup, the offense has been a lingering question for a couple of weeks and their absences show in the slim margins — except for that 17-run shutout by the Red Sox on April 27 — by which the team has won and lost. Suzuki and Bellinger have been ramping up for their returns and were running and hitting over the weekend. They’re expected to be back in the lineup within the coming days to help stabilize the offense.
“I think with Dansby he has such a track record that we can kind of go back to. And we’re always trying to just kind of maintain a lot of his movements and some of the things that he’s working on approach-wise,” hitting coach Dustin Kelly said Sunday. “With some of the guys that have that track record, we try not to get too far away from what they’re really good at and what they’ve done really good in the past.
“The biggest thing is just being connected. When you’re connected good things happen and this year has been a lot of disconnected moments in my swing and we’ve been working hard day and night almost to figure it out. I think today was a good step in the right direction,” Swanson said.over the current 16-game stretch, the Cubs are desperately in need of some clutch hitting.
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