This afternoon started out weirdly when Marcus Stroman barely got through three innings and the Cubs went behind and looked pretty weak sauce against Chris Flexen, a guy who came into the game with an ERA north of 7.
But the persistent Cubs scored single runs in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings and put some key insurance runs on the board in the eighth. That, and an outstanding four innings of work by Javier Assad, led to a 6-3 win over the Rockies on yet another gorgeous late September afternoon at Wrigley Field.
The Cubs got on the board first, after Stroman had an easy 1-2-3 top of the first inning.