Wednesday’s game at Wrigley Field reminded me why I love baseball so much.
Gorgeous weather. Meaningful baseball between two rivals for a playoff spot. Back-and-forth, great pitching, lousy pitching, good fielding, bad fielding and... well, of course, maybe I wouldn’t have liked this game so much if the Cubs had lost.
But they didn’t. After blowing an eighth-inning lead, they came back in the bottom of the inning and scored the lead run, then held on in the ninth for a hard-fought 3-2 win over the Brewers, their second straight one-run win over the N.L. Central leaders.