Today, the complaint department is open.
Here’s mine: Why is it, that when an opposing hitter is literally trying to make an out, the Cubs pitcher can’t throw strikes?
That’s what happened to Javier Assad in the eighth inning after a leadoff single. Garrett Mitchell is trying to sacrifice the runner up a base — and honestly, we don’t see many sac bunts in baseball anymore. (Entering today, this year, there had been two. Total.)
Assad’s failure to allow Mitchell to make an out wound up leading to an RBI single by old Cubs nemesis Jesse Winker, and then a ball dinked into short right field that Miles Mastrobuoni couldn’t catch up to for a two-run hit by William Contreras, and that was enough for the Brewers to defeat the Cubs 3-1.