No matter how good a team might be or how bad the opposition is, sometimes you just have a clunker. Keegan Thompson had one of his worst starts of the year and the Cubs were fighting uphill all day long as a result. The net? An 8-5 loss. To the Cubs credit, they fought back in this one. After trailing 4-2 in the second and having their starter bounced, the Cubs fought back and briefly had a 5-4 lead in the fourth.
Still, even after falling behind 8-5 in the fifth, the Cubs loaded the bases in the eighth and had two on in the ninth.