The Chicago Cubs offense carried them to their second 10-game winning streak earlier this month.

Those same bats went cold over the final five games of their most recent trip to Texas and Atlanta, hitting .124 (19-for-153) with five extra-base hits and five runs over a 1-4 stretch to end the six-game jaunt.

So, Friday’s 14-hit outburst in their 10-5 win over the Chicago White Sox in the City Series was a welcome sight. The Cubs had a baserunner in seven of their nine innings, and all nine starters collected a hit in the victory at Rate Field.

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“We played a good offensive game tonight, for sure,” manager Craig Counsell said after the win. “I know it’s been a little bit light the last four or five days, but we played a really good offensive game all around.

“It felt like every at-bat we made it hard on them. A bunch of hits, walks, baserunning was really good.”

Catcher Carson Kelly delivered a trio of crucial knocks. He had an RBI single in each the fourth and seventh innings, the latter giving the Cubs the lead for good in the series opener. He delivered the knockout blow an inning later, delivering a two-run, ground-rule double with the bases loaded that made it a six-run lead.

“We’ve had a couple of guys that have been a little bit of a dry spell, Carson’s one of them,” Counsell said. “But he had a good night tonight. We got a bunch of guys on base for him, and it felt like everybody had shots to drive in runs tonight.”

The Cubs drew six walks in the win, including three in the eighth inning to load the bases before Kelly’s double. That plate discipline was prevalent in the previous five games, as they had 19 walks, an 11% walk-rate, nearly in line with their 11.8% clip they have this season, which is second in the majors.

“I think that’s a — hopefully — little more stable trait of an offense that you can remain stable no matter what,” Counsell said before the game. “It’s not the ball in play getting caught or (a) hard-hit ball getting caught, and I think it’s something that we’ve shown and are players are historically good at, and hopefully it’s something that we can continue to be a stable, consistent part of our offense.”

Boyd’s progress

Left-hander Matthew Boyd was back with the Cubs since he suffered a torn meniscus in his left knee on May 6 that required surgery.

The opening-day starter remained in Chicago while the team departed on its trip and began throwing on May 8, the day after the operation.

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“It’s about just getting back into a routine,” Boyd said Friday afternoon. “Luckily, throwing’s been normal. Two days after, we were doing normal throws. So that was a blessing.

“It’s loading up, different squats and going through the agility portions and all those things about just loading it and making sure there’s no compensations. My knee feels great now. It honestly feels probably stronger than it was before, which is crazy.”

Boyd said he will throw off a mound Saturday, and if all goes well, he could throw a full bullpen session Monday.

“It’s not like it’s a hamstring where you have to let the tissue heal,” he said. “It’s more like they got rid of the bad stuff, so it’s mitigating the inflammation from the surgery itself. That’s the main thing — not doing too much that it gets so inflamed.”

While the development has been encouraging, Counsell isn’t ready to say Boyd could be ahead of schedule on the six-week prognosis he had after the surgery.

“It’s too early to know any of that,” Counsell said. “The way he’s throwing now, we think we can get him off a mound next week, but that’s still probably too early to look at a schedule.”

Kelly’s mistake

It wasn’t all roses for Kelly on Friday.

The catcher has been one of the game’s best at challenging pitches in the new era of the Automated Ball-Strike challenge system. His 90% success rate in challenges was tops among catchers with at least 10 challenges. Kelly had successfully challenged 16 straight pitches and was 19-for-21.

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In the eighth inning with one out and a runner at second, White Sox second baseman Chase Meidroth took the first pitch for a ball, and Kelly quickly tapped his helmet twice for a review.

The call was upheld, snapping his streak.

“I told Couns I was going to pout after that,” Kelly quipped. “But, hey, we won the game. That’s what matters.”

Thielbar update

Caleb Thielbar (left hamstring) is scheduled to join Class A South Bend on a rehab assignment Saturday. He last pitched on April 23, when he suffered the injury against the Philadelphia Phillies. The 39-year-old has a 3.12 ERA in 8 2/3 innings with 11 strikeouts this season.