Banner Graphic, Volume 16, Number 189, Greencastle, Putnam County, 20 March 1986 — Page 9

Five angry men Cub pitching rotation eyes return to 'B4 form

c. 1986 N.Y. Times News Service MESA, Ariz. assessments of the National League East, it’s as if the Cubs suddenly don’t exist anymore. The Mets talk about the Cardinals, and the Cardinals talk about the Mets. Nobody talks about the Cubs, who finished fourth last season. But the year before, the Cubs stirred Chicago with a divisional title. And in early June last year the Cubs had baseball’s best record until five starting pitchers were on the disabled list by August all five together. The unfit five were Rick Sutcliffe, Steve Trout, Dennis Eckersley, Scott Sanderson and Dick Ruthven. But on the d.l. they were known as Pulled Hamstring, Ulnar Nerve, Shoulder Tendinitis, Knee Ligament and Broken Toe. “You don’t see many smiles here,” Sutcliffe was saying in the Cubs’ clubhouse. “We were embarrassed by finishing fourth last year. Now it’s a matter of taking care of things to keep those things from coming back.” Through the years, the Cubs who haven’t won a World Series since 1908 have been baseball’s most frustrated franchise. But having five starters on the disabled list was a new form of torture, even for them. When the Cubs won the division in 1984, those five pitchers had a combined 5331 record. They skidded to 37-35 last year a 20-game differential that reflected the Cubs’ drop to a 77-84 record after their 96-65 record the year before. “Off what I‘ve seen so far, there’s no evidence of any of ’em having

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