So let’s say you hadn’t watched this game, hadn’t heard anything about it, had a news blackout this afternoon.
And then I told you that Kyle Hendricks would have the shortest and worst start of his career, that Paul Skenes was on the mound for the Pirates, and the Cubs would be down by seven runs after five innings.
You’d have sighed and chalked up another loss and maybe been a bit happy that the Cubs took two of three.
And then I tell you about the most incredible Cubs comeback of the 2024 season, perhaps the best comeback for the team since that ice-cold 2018 win over the Braves by the same score as today’s.