Marlins 3, Cubs 0: A tip o’ the cap to the other guy

This was basically the only Cubs highlight of the afternoonI looked this up because it’s relevant to today’s Cubs game, a 3-0 loss to the Marlins.

I wondered, “How do teams do, in general, when they have a starter go six innings and allow six hits and three runs, all earned?”

That counts as a quality start, for whatever that flawed stat is worth, and apart from three hard-hit balls in the fifth inning that accounted for all of the Miami runs, Adrian Sampson threw pretty well in this one, I thought.

So I went back to 2018 to have a fairly large sample size. Since 2018, 147 starting pitchers have had that precise stat line.

Of those 147 games, those pitchers’ teams won 68 times, or 46.3 percent…