Boy, the Cubs sure know how to ride the pendulum. Their last three games have been shutouts, it’s just that they’ve only been on the winning end in one of them. And it was a no-hitter in which they scored 12 runs. Forming the moldy buns of this latest poop sandwich are absent offensive efforts against the Pirates and Yankees. To make matters worse, both the Braves and Mets won last night to push the Cubs five games back in the Wild Card.
Though they haven’t been mathematically eliminated just yet, their odds are now at 0.9% and will likely fall lower with two more against the Yanks and three against the Dodgers in LA.