It was certainly not an easy battle for the Chicago Cubs in their recent series win against the St. Louis Cardinals. Winning three of five games, they came away with an edge. But in the first four games of the series, Cubs starting pitchers tossed a combined 19 innings and surrendered 13 runs – that is a 6.16 ERA. Only Mike Montgomery went past the fifth inning, and nobody made it to the seventh. Bullpen pitchers had to really work hard.
On Sunday, Jose Quintana turned in arguably the biggest start of the series.