For the second time in the last three days, the Cubs played a close game and lost. I’ll make the same comment again. These were the kinds of things that are within a normal large distribution of games. On Saturday, it was the bullpen letting a game get away, in part because a reliever couldn’t throw strikes when a batter was trying to give up an out to a bunt. Monday night, the Cubs lost in part because they sent someone up to bunt who has little experience bunting. Both situations were a little novel. Both broke against the Cubs in the early going here.