Mired in first place by a half-game at the outset, the Cubs lurched into the re-opening of the regular season at home against the Pirates, who have a lot of Hurdle themselves. Yu Darvish rang in with quite an effort as he had some good stuff early, still good stuff in the middle, and didn’t stay late as he had thrown a lot of pitches. Chris Archer fired every arrow in his quiver and stayed a little longer as he was tossing a Maddux into the seventh. Consequently the game was tied at the beginning, stayed that way for quite a while until a deep fly escaped from the yard, and then the Cubs remembered how to be offensive and so did the Pirates and things got interesting.
Cub Tracks, deep flies and won ton, boys
