“Bringing them back is definitely another test,” Ross said before Friday’s game.
Cubs left fielder Joc Pederson was the exception, accounting for half of the Cubs’ hits and both runs with a pair of solo homers.
When the Cubs offense was at its best, the contact bats were shining – the same bats that are collecting dust on the injured list now.
Still without infielders Nico Hoerner , the Cubs have scored three runs or fewer in each of their past six games.
“I don’t really care how we score runs,” Ross said after the loss Friday, “just that we win games and that we do score.
At least some of the Cubs’ offensive slippage is natural regression from a high-flying month of May.
“We just won a bunch of games in a row, led by our offense,” Pederson said.