CINCINNATI — When Yasiel Puig’s drive to right-center banged off the wall to beat the Cubs in the 10th inning Wednesday night at Great American Ball Park, the Cubs trudged off the field with the body language of a group that might as well have been battling through the dog days of August.
Who could blame them if it felt that way?
For all the success during a thrill-ride streak of baseball they’ve been on for the last month, they’d just experienced the fourth walk-off finish in their last eight games, their 12th one-run nail-biter of the season and the seventh game in which the bullpen blew a save.