Athletics 4, Cubs 3: Just... not... quite... enough... again

Photo by Griffin Quinn/Getty ImagesThe Cubs lost to the Athletics 4-3 Tuesday at Wrigley Field.

That makes them 21-28 in one-run games. Now, one-run games are not necessarily a predictor of a team’s success, but flip that record and the Cubs would be 84-67 and solidly in a wild-card spot. Even put it at .500ish at 24-25 and they’d still be competing for a postseason spot.

Sigh. There are a number of reasons for that bad one-run game record and we can slice and dice that to death when the season’s over. Hopefully team management does the same.

In the meantime, let’s look at this game.

Jordan Wicks gave up four first-inning home runs to the Dodgers in his last start. In this one... same old, same…