2021 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 113

Quinn Harris-USA TODAY Sports Different day, but largely the same story. At least offensively. After striking out 17 times Saturday and mustering only five hits, the Cubs bested each by one on Sunday. 16 strikeouts is certainly still too many. And six hits don’t win a whole lot of baseball games. In fairness, they did quantum leap forward with three runs as opposed to none on Saturday. Six hits and 16 strikeouts takes some pretty fortunate sequencing to get to three runs. But the Cubs did pull that off.

Three runs isn’t horrible, but the Cubs basically never had a chance in this one. The White Sox ambushed them for six runs in the first inning. At that point, with an offense that lacks any…