David Ross and Craig Counsell went head-to-head as the Chicago Cubs and Milwaukee Brewers began a key three-game series at Wrigley Field.
Chicago Cubs manager David Ross meets Milwaukee Brewers manager Craig Counsell at home plate on Opening Day, April 7, 2022, at Wrigley Field.But the extra-inning win in Milwaukee on the Fourth of July, which ended with manager David Ross’s profane postgame rant about the closing of the roof at American Family Field, was probably as good a place as any to start.
The Cubs entered the series with as much confidence as they’ve shown all season but faced a red-hot Brewers team riding an eight-game streak that left them a season-high 16 games over .500. There was no roof controversy to speak of, naturally, because there was no roof. Instead of serving as a walking, talking piñata for angry Cubs fans for the team’s underachieving ways, as he did over the first three months, Ross was suddenly enjoying the fruits of managing a contending team on the upswing.
He has handled the bullpen deftly for the most part, moving Michael Fulmer from the closer’s role early on and settling in with Adbert Alzolay. He helped get Christopher Morel and Seiya Suzuki out of prolonged slumps with well-timed “timeouts” on the bench, made the right call to cut the playing time of struggling veterans like Eric Hosmer and Trey Mancini, and moved starter Drew Smyly to the bullpen not once, but twice.
Counsell, the longest-tenured National League manager in his ninth season, decided before the season began that he’d go into the final year of his contract without discussing an extension. That could make him one of the coveted free-agent managers in November, and one who would look awfully sharp wearing black and white on the South Side of Chicago.
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