As we have all watched all season, this Cubs offense has really struggled to put runs on the board this year. More than anything though they have struggled to get any sort of hit with runners in scoring position. It seemed to me watching the games that the Cubs are smacking the ball around the field in normal situations but completely stop hitting in any sort of key situation, so I decided to do some research and was pretty shocked by what I found. Here are some crazy stats:

- In Wednesday's game against Detroit the Cubs were just 1 for 15 (.067) with runners in scoring position (and that one hit still didn't produce a run), but were 10 for 20 (.500) when there were no runners in scoring position.

- On the current road trip the Cubs are a total of 1 for 29 (.034) with runners in scoring position but are 27 for 73 (.370) with no runners in scoring position.

- The Cubs are currently hitting .223 as a team with runners in scoring position, dead last in all of baseball.

- The Current .223 mark is worse than any team has hit with runners in scoring position during a season in the past 5 years.

- The Cubs have 3 of the worst hitters with runners in scoring position of all regulars in the big leagues: Geovany Soto at .204, Mike Fontenot at .205 and Alfonso Soriano at .157

- Only one Cub (Kosuke Fukudome) has hit higher than .264 with runners in scoring position. And only 2 qualifying players are higher than .242 (Fukudome and Theriot).

- In the month of June the Cubs are hitting just .205 with runners in scoring position.

- The Cubs are hitting .207 so far this year on the road with runners in scoring position.

- This season the Cubs are hitting .259 with no outs, .237 with 1 out and .217 with 2 outs.

- Cubs are hitting .147 on the season with runners on 2nd and 3rd.

- The Cubs have hit 47 solo home runs, only 24 with runners on base and only 11 with runners in scoring position.

So there you have it. The Cubs team this season so far is the worst clutch hitting team baseball has seen in at least 5 years. I gotta say after watching this team every day it really doesn't surprise me. I have literally never seen anything like it. This team just flat out can not hit in key situations. Until they do, they will not contend for a playoff spot.

I guess the one upside is the Cubs are starting to show more power and are really starting to hit well with no runners in scoring position. Despite the amazing awfulness of this offense, the Cubs are still only 3.5 games out of first place. With Aramis Ramirez coming back soon and the trade deadline nearing, maybe, just maybe, we can still turn it around.


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