Soon, all of baseball’s playoff teams will wipe their slates clean and begin finding out what autumn has in store for them. Heartbreak? Glory? Maybe even a hit or two?
You know who could use a good slate cleaning? The Cubs, for whom offense has been like an unsolvable equation.
“Who benefits more from that than us?” infielder Jason Kipnis said. “I think we’re the No. 1 team, out of any team that’s going to be in the postseason, that’s happy about everybody starting back at zero.”
But before “zero” come 58, 59 and 60 — the final three games of a shortened regular season, against the White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field.