Michael Conforto thriving as Cubs’ pinch-hitter extraordinaire: ‘I don’t really know how he does that’

PITTSBURGH – Pinch-hitting is hard. Michael Conforto is making it look easy. “I don’t really know how he does that, to be totally honest,” second baseman Nico Hoerner said Wednesday. “It feels like he’s either homering or on the verge of it and [has] done it in really big moments for us, too.” Conforto’s latest trick was his fourth pinch-hit homer of the year, coming in Tuesday’s win and tying Glenallen Hill’s franchise mark for the most in a single season. All in a day’s – or, to be more…