Give Cubs pitcher Yu Darvish credit for not playing the game.
No, not the game between the lines every fifth day.
But rather the excuses game. Or, if you prefer, the everything-is-just-fine-and-dandy game.
Darvish, making his team-high 16th start of the season, earned his 10th consecutive no-decision Friday in a 5-4 defeat against the Mets at Wrigley Field.
Ten straight “NDs” simply has to be the strangest, most kissing-your-sister-est stat in all of baseball this season. It is so unusual, it had never been done before in Cubs history. The last big-league pitcher to slog through 10 straight starts without a single decision?