Welcome to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped in writers’ tears, and then cold-brewed overnight for maximum flavor.
Pitchers’ duel in the Friendly Confines., the Professor versus former simCub Max Fried. It proceeded as advertised, 18 up, 18 down. Until. Then the Braves went way crooked and it became incumbent upon the Cubs to mount a serious comeback.