CHICAGO — Ryan Pressly didn’t get much sleep after his outing Tuesday night.

The Cubs’ closer entered the game in the 11th inning with the score tied at 5. When he was replaced, the Giants were up by seven runs and there were still no outs.

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Pressly ended up being charged with eight earned runs and the loss as the Cubs went on to lose 14-5. His ERA ballooned from 2.08 to 7.62.

But the sun rose again, and Pressly didn’t miss a beat.

“He was here at 8 o’clock this morning,” Cubs pitching coach Tommy Hottovy said Wednesday. “He wanted to go out to the bullpen to do dry work.”

Hottovy said he isn’t worried about Pressly, and he loves the mentality the pitcher carried into the next day.

“As a coach, you want to be around those guys,” Hottovy said. “For him to take that rough night last night, he was like, ‘I didn’t sleep anyway. Let’s get to work.'”

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Hottovy attributed much of Pressly’s struggles this season to not generating enough swings and misses.

“I think it’s the lack of whiff,” Hottovy said. “He’s pitched in this league for a long time. There’s a certain way he’s had success, and teams definitely game planning against that.”

Pressly is in his 13th MLB season and Tuesday night’s outing represented his 637th career game. He has 116 saves under his belt, including four in four chances in his first year with the Cubs.

Pressly’s strikeout rate this season is at 8.1%, way down from 23.8% last season with the Houston Astros. At his best, he was striking batters out 35% of the time.

Hottovy said it could be because of adjustments Pressly has had to make after dealing with knee inflammation earlier in the season.

“What always (is affected) when you deal with lower-body injuries is mechanics — you form bad habits,” Hottovy said. “I do believe that there are some mechanical things where hitters have seen the ball a little early (from Pressly). It just gives them more time.”

Because of the knee injury, Pressly was also unable to get work in outside of games — in the bullpen — to help correct some of the mechanical issues.

Still, his tough night on Tuesday doesn’t necessarily mean the Cubs will use him less in those high-leverage spots.

“Had he not pitched yesterday, he was going to pitch today — regardless of where we were,” Hottovy said. “It might not be a high-leverage situation, but we need to get the reps because he’s going to be better down the road by pitching more. We just have to figure out how to navigate that in a series.”

Hottovy said the bottom line for Pressly is that he simply needs to get out there more — he’s only thrown 13 innings so far this year. The Cubs staff believes in Pressly’s ability to bounce back in the long run.

“He has been in places in the past where he struggled and then went on amazing runs, and he’s capable of doing it again,” Hottovy said. “It’s just about checking those boxes every single day.”