There are days like today when you can the most rational fan of a team, a good team which the Chicago Cubs are, but you'll still want to kill someone after four torturous hours of watching baseball.
I mean, it looked good early. The offense that hadn't scored more than three runs in nine straight games scored four runs in the second inning. But then Tyler Chatwood walked two guys in a row, hit a third batter, and the defense made back-to-back mistakes to give away the lead.
Even then though, the Cubs grabbed the lead right back. Javier Baez hit a home run to make it 5-4 and then Anthony Rizzo hit one too giving the Cubs a 6-4 lead. The bullpen was great again, as Mike Montgomery, Pedro Strop and Carl Edwards Jr. shut down the Cardinals for four innings.
We probably should have known that once the Cubs couldn't score after Kris Bryant hit a leadoff double in the ninth that they were going to lose. Brandon Morrow hadn't allowed a run all season, so of course he walked the first man up in the bottom of the ninth and eventually gave up a game-tying two-run double.
But again, the Cubs had another shot. After a one-out single by Jason Heyward in the 10th inning, he moved up to second on a Javier Baez strikeout. Heyward then got to third base after a wild pitch.
Victor Caratini smoked a line drive, but of course Matt Carpenter made the catch a few feet off the third base line.
Following a walk to start the bottom of the 10th, we pretty much knew what the result was going to be.
The Cubs have lost four in a row and this was by far the worst loss of the year.
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