A look at Michael Busch's extended slump to start the season: 'It's been pretty frustrating'

The results just weren’t coming for Michael Busch. Entering Sunday’s comeback victory, Busch was in an 0-for-30 slump. That, his manager put it plainly, was why he was sitting.“Simple as that,” Craig Counsell said before Sunday’s 7-6 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. “You could say there’s a lot of line drives in there. But you get to a place of playing every day for a week and not producing and not having any results, and it wears on you. It wears on you mentally as much as anything.”Advertisement