The Cubs’ tailspin continued Monday with another low-scoring loss, this time against the first-place Brewers. A brilliant effort from starter Justin Steele was completely wasted by the utterly incompetent Chicago offense and a brutal error led to a big Milwaukee 8th inning that put the game away.
Steele was sharp from the start on this Memorial Day and had very little traffic on the bases. The same could be said of his Brewers counterpart, Robert Gasser, who matched him zero for zero through six frames.
The Cubs got a pair of singles from Seiya Suzuki and Cody Bellinger to lead off the 7th inning and knocked Gasser out of the game.