CHICAGO -- When the pitchers and reserves for Tuesday’s All-Star Game were announced this past Sunday, Kyle Hendricks was once again on the outside looking in. He’s started two World Series games, has won an ERA title and has finished in the top three in National League Cy Young Award voting, yet he still hasn’t been given the All-Star nod.

“It's never something that bothers me,” Hendricks said Friday. “Hopefully, one day down the road, maybe we can check that box off.”

But does Hendricks have a case to be made that he should’ve been named an All-Star this season? It’s tough to argue that he doesn’t.

With another addition to the ‘W’ column following the Cubs’ 10-5 win over the Cardinals on Friday at Wrigley Field, Hendricks’ 11 victories this season are tied for the most wins in the Majors.

“The team knows what they can expect out of me,” Hendricks said. “I keep them in the game and give them a chance to win when we come down to the end there. So, if we're winning on the days that I do that, obviously, we're doing something right. That's where we want to keep the focus.”

Hendricks has now recorded 10 quality starts in his last 11 outings. He’s gone a career-high 11 consecutive starts without taking a loss, and he’s tossed at least six innings in each of those 11 outings.

“That's just huge right there in itself,” said Patrick Wisdom, who homered in Chicago’s win. “Especially going into the All-Star break, to give us that workload, it's huge.”

Regardless of his All-Star status, it seems that the Cubs have a shot to win just about every time Hendricks is on the mound, and that trend continued once again on Friday.

A five-pitch sequence in the top of the third that saw an aggressive Cardinals lineup score two runs on four hits was the only blemish on Hendricks’ day, in which he scattered seven hits and a walk across 6 1/3 innings. A five-run seventh inning helped the Cubs open the final series before the All-Star break with a win, and now over his last 17 starts against the Cardinals, Hendricks is 12-1 with a 2.41 ERA.

For his performance on Friday, the Wrigley crowd rewarded him with a standing ovation.

“This guy's been holding it down for us,” Cubs manager David Ross said. “I think when you talk about All-Stars, sometimes guys that have the big numbers or the velocities or the names get a little bit more of the nod there. But he's definitely, for me, deserving of that. This guy has done nothing but go out there, take the bump and win baseball games for us, give us a chance to win every time he's on the mound.”

That type of success has become par for the course for Hendricks in his last two-plus months of action. Following a rough April (1-3, 7.54 ERA), he has climbed to an 11-4 record and lowered his ERA to 3.77. Since taking his most recent loss of the season on May 9, Hendricks is 9-0, and his only non-quality start in that stretch came when he gave up four earned runs in six innings to Milwaukee on June 28.

“It's been putting in good work and having a good, simple focus of just executing pitches,” Hendricks said. “Luckily, I've been making more good pitches than bad, but I just gotta keep going. I can still get a little better with that.”

The Cubs remain flawed, even after snapping their 11-game losing streak on Wednesday, as they’ve still lost 12 of their last 14 games. They are expected to be sellers as the July 30 Trade Deadline nears. But there’s at least one thing that’s remained true every five days since the calendar flipped to May: If Hendricks is on the bump, expect Chicago to have a chance to win.

Whether or not that screams “All-Star,” the Cubs are just thankful he’s on their team.

“He's our All-Star, for sure,” Ross said.