The Cubs outscored the AL East-leading Orioles by a 21-2 margin while sweeping them in Baltimore.
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00:00The Cubs, though, I mean, by a mile, the best series we've seen them play.
00:06By a mile.
00:07Extraordinary.
00:08The starting pitching, we talked about it before the series began, how they really set
00:13it up well.
00:14Wow.
00:15They're really set up with the starting pitching.
00:16And then I believe, was it Jim Bowden on Monday that said if they get in the playoffs, that
00:21starting pitching?
00:22He did.
00:23I was thinking of that as I watched one, two, three great starting effort.
00:28They shut out the best team in baseball twice with their starting pitch.
00:3321 to 2, I think they outscored the Orioles in three games.
00:36It was dominant.
00:37It's the kind of series that you can use and point to as, this is how good you can be.
00:43This is what happens when you play up to your level of competition.
00:46Don't play down to it.
00:48And you rise, you just focus and you play good baseball and you let your offense carry
00:56you.
00:57And you're going to be pretty good for short stretches.
00:59Now we're going to get carried away.
01:01Certainly.
01:02It's only one series, but it came against the best team in the American league.
01:05And they're also, that's the best offense.
01:08I mean, it's extraordinary that they play that well against the team that has just been
01:13scoring bunches of runs all year.
01:16I don't think in my wildest dreams, I thought they would go into Baltimore and get a sweep.
01:23That was even in my most optimistic hopes, I would have thought two out of three.
01:30I doubt that in their wildest dreams, they thought they would sweep and do so as decisively
01:36and dominantly as, as they did, because that was a statement.
01:43And I think that was a statement that maybe they aren't done yet and they're, they still
01:48have a long way to go.
01:50But with the wild card in play, I think that they go into St. Louis with some momentum
01:55and a lot of belief.