MILWAUKEE – The question was posed in the form of a Twitter poll as soon as Cole Hamels’ rough start against the Brewers on Friday night was in the books during a 7-1 loss at Miller Park:
Who is your Game 1 playoff starter for the Cubs?
The Cubs’ top four names of usual suspects were put forth in Jon Lester, Kyle Hendricks, Yu Darvish and Hamels.
Hamels, of course, had no chance if for no other reason than the recency bias associated with the five runs he gave up on nine hits, including a pair of long home runs by Christian Yelich and Yasmani Grandal.