Look at it this way.
The Cubs are in some pretty good company. The Cardinals, in sweeping a doubleheader from the Cubs Friday, 8-5 and 12-4, established a franchise record by winning their 13th and 14th consecutive games. During that streak they swept the Brewers, who are on the verge of winning the NL Central. The Brewers are a much better team than the Cubs.
Feel better now? No? Let’s review these two losses, played on a warm, windy early fall afternoon and evening.
In the first game, Justin Steele and the Cubs played the Cardinals to a draw for the first two innings.