The Cubs lost to the Brewers 6-5 in 10 innings Saturday, the first time this year they’ve lost consecutive games.
Almost everything about this game was, as the headline says, irritating, and so the complaint department is wide open.
The Cubs went out to an early 3-0 lead that included this home run by Anthony Rizzo [VIDEO].
Rizzo later had an RBI double and so did Ian Happ and things were looking pretty good.
But the Cubs frittered that lead away largely due to some poor defensive play — that’s something that’s fortunately been rare this year, but the bad defense (including a ball not stopped by Javier Baez and a ball that glanced off Jason Kipnis’ glove, neither of which resulted in an error being charged) reminds us of how important solid defense is.