If you knew going in this week’s series against the Pirates at PNC Park that the Cubs were going to drop three of four and that they would drop the first three by a combined score of 29-11 and that Craig Kimbrel would suffer his first blown save, I suspect that you wouldn’t have had many happy feelings.
And now that that’s precisely what happened, you’re still entitled to have those unhappy feelings. But in a turn of fate befitting an NL Central that has been either expectedly competitive or unexpectedly bad depending on the generosity of your prose, the Cubs managed to gain a game and pull into a first place tie by virtue of their series loss.