Baseball is just the weirdest sport ever. The Cubs start going into a slump and you tell yourself "meh, I've seen this a million times it happens every baseball season" and then it continues on so long that you start to wonder "what if this isn't a slump and they just suck", and then when you hit the lowest point suddenly the bats spring to life again and start hitting like they did before.
And when they slump it pretty much doesn't matter who you face. You could be facing Cy Young winners every night or you could be facing Michael Lorenzen, doesn't matter you're getting shut down (BTW after back to back 1 run outings against the Cubs Lorenzen went back to his standard 4+ ER start against the Pirates).
And so now we surge again apparently and start tracking "haven't done this well since" statistics when last week we were tracking "haven't sucked this badly since" statistics. Such a weird sport....