CHICAGO -- Confidence has returned to the Chicago Cubs in the form of what manager Joe Maddon describes as a couple of slices of Meat Loaf.Anthony Rizzo homered twice off Bartolo Colon, Kyle Hendricks pitched 6 1/3 scoreless innings and the Cubs beat the New York Mets 6-2 Wednesday to take two of three in the rematch of last years NL Championship Series.After entering the All-Star break on a 6-15 skid, the Cubs have taken four of six from AL West-leading Texas and the Mets, who swept them in last years NL Championship Series.A nice homestand. Four out of six aint bad, Maddon said. Eating Meat Loaf twice, Ill take it.The offbeat Maddon calls winning series eating Meat Loaf, a reference to the singers 1977 hit, Two Out of Three Aint Bad.Weve played six really good games since the break, and thats the part that has really stood out to me, Maddon said.A night after the first four-strikeout game of his big league career, Rizzo pulled a slider to right for a solo homer in the third, a drive that would have traveled 451 feet had it landed at ground level unimpeded, according to MLBs Statcast program.Two innings later with a runner on, he sent a fastball into the right-field bleachers -- estimated at 436 feet by Statcast -- for the 11th multihomer game of his career.If they go out just over the yellow line, its just as good, Rizzo said. But those definitely feel good. I just put good swings on the ball.Rizzo also hit a two-run homer in Mondays victory as the Cubs rebounded from a four-game sweep in New York this month. Chicago has won five of its last seven overall.Its really nice, Rizzo said. Its just what we want to do, keep winning series.Hendricks (9-6) gave up seven hits and hasnt allowed an earned run in his last three appearances. He lowered his ERA to 2.27, third best in the majors behind Clayton Kershaw and Madison Bumgarner.It seems to go that way when things are kind of going in your favor, you get away with some bad pitches, Hendricks said. That was really the case today.With the Mets wearing 1986 replica road uniforms, Colon (8-5) allowed allowed six runs and eight hits in 4 1/3 innings while laboring on the warm, humid day Maddon described as Instructional League hot.I think mentally I wasnt all there and I paid the consequences, Colon said through a translator.Manager Terry Collins knew it wasnt Colons day when he walked two in the first inning. That led to Addison Russells two-run double, one of his three hits.There are days I havent seen Bartolo throw 15 balls in five innings, let alone in one inning, Collins said. Certainly uncharacteristic, but but youre going to have blips like that once and awhile.Javier Baez added an RBI single off Antonio Bastardo in a three-run fifth for Chicago.New Yorks Wilmer Flores hit his fifth home run in eight games, a two-run drive off Travis Wood in the eighth.The Mets, resting several starters ahead of a series in Miami, wasted chances.Juan Lagares hit into an inning-ending double play with runners at first and third base in the second. James Loney was thrown out at the plate by Jason Heyward to end the fourth when the center fielder charged Kelly Johnsons single and made a perfect one-hop throw to catcher Miguel Montero, who barely had to move his mitt.The last five or six games Ive pitched, Ive had unbelievable defense and theyre scoring runs, Hendricks said. 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As part of a series looking at the mind, body and soul of an athlete, ESPNs Prim Siripipat will speak to various tennis players throughout Wimbledon.LONDON -- Pam Shriver was the fifth seed at Wimbledon in 1985 and was set to face fellow American and friend Anne White in the first round. It took three days for the match to start because of rain, so Shriver was more than ready to compete. She was not prepared, however, for what she would see after their five-minute warm-up.Her opponents outfit. Seriously.As White peeled off her track suit, she revealed an all-white, one-piece Lycra bodysuit. The ensemble, which was skintight, caused an uproar at the All England Club -- arguably the most conservative, prestigious tennis venue in the world.Within a couple of changeovers, we must have had about every photographer that was on the grounds, and they were all looking at Anne White, Shriver said. And Im like, Hang on. Im a US Open finalist. Ive been in the top five most of the last few years. Im the reason why were on Court 2.After the extended wait for the match to begin, it took three sets over a rain-filled two days to complete. Shriver fought through the distraction and pulled off the victory, eventually reaching that years quarterfinals.How was Shriver able to maintain her composure during a trying and wet week at Wimbledon? And the subsequent hoopla when she finally did reach the court?espnW recently spoke with Shriver:espnW: Before you saw this unitard, what was your mindset heading into the match?Pam Shriver: Just normal. I knew that it was an edgy first round. I knew Anne White could play. She was a good serve and volleyer. She could play on grass. It was not an easy first round.espnW: How did your mindset change after you saw the outfit?Shriver: Its just sort of like, after all this waiting to play, now, Im playing against this white unitard that I knew was going to cause headlines. I wasnt mad at her or anything. I just realized it was going to have be just another thing I would have to deal with.espnW: Did your emotions get in the way, at least in the beginning?Shriver: My emotions got in the way often.espnW: Even before this match?Shriver: Oh yeah. I was known as a very emotionally up-and-down player. I could have my emotions work for me. I could have my emotions work against me.espnW: As an emotional player, how did you prevent this match from becoming a massive disaster?Shriver: I could haave lost that match in straight sets.dddddddddddd. She was, one, that good of a player, and two, I didnt have a lot of first-round losses, but I had some really bad losses.espnW: What happens to players when their attention and focus are placed too much on their opponents rather than their game?Shriver: Well, its not good. Its your job to figure out how to turn it back to what you need to do.espnW: How were you able to maintain that laser focus and keep out all those distractions?Shriver: I was in the middle of my best years here. I loved grass courts. I won 10 of my 21 titles on grass, so for me, any time I played a match on grass, I had the mindset that my game was suited for grass. I would not have wanted to lose to Anne White no matter what. I would have felt some pressure even more because of the ploy and attention brought to the match because of the outfit. I would not have wanted to be the No. 5 seed to go out in the first round to a fashion stunt.espnW: What was your overall mindset given everything that was going on?Shriver: I was nervous. I was more uneasy. But I give myself credit, because when we went back out the next day on a different court, she had to wear a traditional outfit and it was a routine final set. The overriding thing in my head was just, Figure out a way to win this match. Whatever shes wearing, whatever the photographers are there for, figure out a way to win the match.espnW: Would a sports psychologist been useful during your career?Shriver: I didnt have any formal sports psychiatry. I had no practice. I had no program to make myself mentally a better athlete. I wish I had -- I let way too many things I had no control over bother me. I now know that that is such wasted energy. I let opponents bother me, I let umpires bother me, I let line calls and people in the crowd bother me. I let the weather, the sun and the wind upset me on the tennis court -- none of which you have any control over.Prim Siripipat joined ESPN as an anchor in 2011 after spending three years in Miami covering the Dolphins, Heat and Marlins. She has appeared on SportsCenter, First Take, NBA Tonight, as well as ESPN Radio. She played tennis at Duke University and, shortly after, began a career in broadcasting in Raleigh, North Carolina. Follow her on Twitter @ESPNPrim. ' ' '