Despite forcing Cardinals ace Jack Flaherty out of the game in the 2nd inning, the Cubs offense could never get anything going in the first game of the doubleheader at Wrigley and dropped it by a score of 9-3.
If you had told Cubs fans that Flaherty would have been out of the game in the 2nd, you would not have thought the score to be 5-1 bad guys at the time. Yet, that’s exactly what it was as Ian Happ’s leadoff home run against Flaherty served as the Cubs’ sole run until Josh Phegley blasted a two-run bomb in the bottom of the 7th when the game was out of reach.