This isn’t technically a must-win game, but each loss from here on out increases exponentially in weight. And after flushing the last five games against Colorado and Phoenix, the bathroom on the Cubs’ charter home put the Dave Matthews Band to shame. Let’s just hope they’re done playing like crap now that they’re back at Wrigley.
Whether or not the day off was enough to get them squared back up and heading in the right direction offensively, it did at least allow David Ross to shuffle his rotation. Javier Assad will open the series, then the Cubs will skip Taillon, who last pitched six days ago, in favor of Justin Steele and then Kyle Hendricks.