Regression can take on so many forms. Sometimes it is pretty to look at and sometimes it is ugly. Sometimes, it is a September win featuring significant contributions by three of your biggest stars who have had the collective worst seasons of their careers. Sometimes it is your largely unscathed closer allowing a two-run homer to tie the game in the ninth inning.
For weeks, I wrote about the Cubs being a pretty boring follow in 2020. Not because the on-field product was bad or because the core of this team became any less likable. But because you could generally tell by about the third inning and certainly by the sixth inning what was going to happen.