My first impression of the first runner-on-second game in Cubs history is that I didn’t hate it as much as I thought I would.
The seemingly obvious “bunt the runner along and hope for a sacrifice fly” strategy isn’t what happened in any of the four half innings. Instead, we got a crunching collision play at the plate, the Cubs failing to score when they had two runners in scoring position and one out, and finally the Cubs eking out a 2-1 win over the Pirates with the “ghost runner” (David Bote) advancing on a fly ball and scoring on a single by Javier Baez.