The Cubs got solid relief work in nailing this win down. They were 65-57 and increased their N.L. Central lead to two games over the Brewers.
Really, you could not possibly invent a better regular-season day at Wrigley Field than Saturday.
The weather was perfect: 79 degrees, low humidity, not a cloud in the sky, a gentle breeze blowing off Lake Michigan. A “Mesa day,” I call these, weather really similar to what we see in Mesa during spring training.
The capacity crowd at Wrigley was treated to some flyovers from the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels, who were part of the annual Air & Water Show on Chicago’s lakefront, including a flyover that couldn’t have been more than 1,000 or so feet off the ground.