Chicago Cubs: Someone needs to step up before its too late

Every Game is important in the dogfight that is the NL Central.  If the Chicago Cubs don’t have a number of guys step up, they will put themselves in the same position as last year or risk missing the postseason.

The Chicago Cubs had themselves an interesting weekend in Milwaukee.  Despite playing in Wrigley North, they managed to squander a gem of a start from Jon Lester and couldn’t get the job done despite leading late in the game despite a 2-0 lead from a David Bote blast.

This caused the Cubs to temporarily fall out of first place before Kyle Schwarber put the whole team on his back today. The Cubs drew even in the division to the Cardinals with the Brewers close on their tail.

Despite the victory, this is the lasting memory of the weekend and provides a singular view of the issues facing the Cubs at the very moment.

Now, Keston Hiura is no slouch of a hitter, but when it comes off the Cubs big free agent midseason acquisition, that’s going to raise eyebrows.

It’s easy to blame the bullpen and while they don’t get a free pass (get it), those two games the Cubs offense only managed 2 and 3 runs. That puts extra pressure on all the pitcher and gives them no margin for error so there is plenty of blame to go around.

Simply put, the Chicago Cubs need guys to step up.

Remember, they lost the division to the Brewers in a 1 game playoff and then lost to the Rockies the next day in the Wild Card game.  EVERY GAME MATTERS and every blown lead means there’s an opportunity to end up in a playoff or worse, out of the postseason.