This stretch really reminds me of the stretch in September 04. In that month we had a 7 game winning streak, where in the first 4 games or so we were swinging the bats really well and looking good. Then our bats went to crap (as they tended to do in 04) and because of good pitching, we scratched across a few close wins. But the bats continued to get worse, and after winning the first in NY, we dropped the last 2, then went home to drop 3 of 4 to Cinci and then lost the first 2 to Atlanta. Anyways, lemme stress that I am NOT IMPLYING THE CUBS ARE ABOUT TO COLLAPSE. I was just thinking of a similar situation where we were winning games but not looking good doing it, and then the bottom fell out for a bit. Another time was in 2005 when we won 4 in a row vs. the White Sox and Brewers, but the scores of those games were 6-2, 2-0, 2-0, 3-2. We then lost 7 in a row.