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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Cubs have a good record but major pitching & hitting concerns

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes discussed how the Cubs have a good record but also an array of concerns.

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0:00.0

When you give up eight runs, or nine runs, that's too many.

0:04.3

We also left a lot of runs out today.

0:06.3

But look, it was a good baseball game.

0:08.1

You know, you have to say that when you're on the losing end of it, too.

0:10.9

It was a good baseball game.

0:12.7

We're just going to lose none of it today.

0:15.4

It was a good baseball game.

0:17.4

I think the series itself is kind of interesting if we detach ourselves from the results

0:26.2

of it, maybe there's something to learn about both teams in how they play that if you're a

0:33.4

fan of either team, you go, there's some stuff that I'm really worried about as I've watched

0:39.3

my team inside of this series.

0:41.1

Well, I think it's interesting, I hear what you're saying because we're so used to thinking

0:45.8

about these as separate entities that we discuss and dissect and break down, and then we get

0:52.3

to see them against each other.

0:54.1

And these are the two teams we know the best in baseball.

0:57.3

So how do they measure up to each other?

0:59.3

We could learn a little something extra.

1:02.4

James and Tyone's misses are going to turn into bombs against a team like that one,

1:07.5

as they did on Saturday, right?

1:10.2

Phil Maton still struggles mightily out of that bullpen.

1:14.5

His whole year is a struggle and they thought they found something when he went on the injured

1:18.9

list and he came back and was decent after that until he blew up in Atlanta on this road trip

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