Well that was better. It took til the seventh but the bats woke up. Five to one, baby.
“We needed the breakthrough,” Cubs manager Joe Maddon said. “Hopefully that’ll relax everybody.”
Hopefully. But we’ve heard that song. It is all about the base though. Al’s right!
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