Javier Baez flipped his bat and dropped his head late Friday night, as if he knew something that the 42,148 fans jammed into Wrigley Field didn’t. Johnny Cueto had an idea, leaning his body and recoiling on the mound as he watched the ball drift out toward the left-field bleachers.
The San Francisco Giant with dreadlocks spilling out of his black hat had kept the entire Cubs lineup off-balance with his array of rocker-step, hurry-up, pause-button looks. It got to the point – zero-zero with one out in the eighth inning – where Baez actually walked up to the plate thinking bunt.