Chicago Cubs’ winning streak ends at 10 games with 12-4 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers

LOS ANGELES — A depleted, banged-up pitching staff over the last two weeks kept testing the Chicago Cubs. Riding a 10-game winning streak into Saturday’s game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, they again needed someone to step up. Right-hander Colin Rea, so consistent since signing with the Cubs before the start of last season, didn’t have his best stuff against a Dodgers lineup whose patient approach and lack of chase out of the zone challenged the veteran.

Rea didn’t have the typical life on his fastball, forcing him to go to his other stuff earlier in the game than he originally wanted. When Rea ran into trouble in the fourth with an elevated pitch count, manager Craig Counsell turned to Javier Assad out of the bullpen. The right-hander didn’t fare any better, though.

The Dodgers tagged Rea and Assad for six runs each, ultimately too much for the Cubs to dig out of this time in a 12-4 loss to snap their winning streak. Boobirds and an electric environment: Chicago Cubs and a budding rivalry with the Los Angeles Dodgers “We’ve had a lot of good pitching days to put that streak together, and we did not have a good pitching day today,” Counsell said. “But they deserve some credit for that.

They made it hard on us today. ” Seiya Suzuki and Moisés Ballesteros remained locked in encouraging hot stretches. For the fourth time in his last five games, Suzuki went deep, rocketing a solo home run off Roki Sasaki in the second inning to give the Cubs the lead.