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Before a 4-3 home loss to the lowly Royals on Friday, Cubs manager David Ross warned against looking at this current stretch of 12 consecutive games against sub-.500 teams as a cakewalk.
“We were the team last year that made it hard on a lot of other teams that thought we weren’t that good,” Ross said.
Other than the Royals’ defense sputtering during a three-run Cubs fourth, the rest of the afternoon was a demonstration of how thin the margins are in the majors, even against the dregs of MLB.