The 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.