CHICAGO — It was first on the list of clichés that Crash Davis told Nuke LaLoosh to write down on the Durham Bulls’ fictional bus: “We gotta play it one day at a time.” Sadly for fans of great quotes, that cliché is becoming a mantra for the front-running Chicago Cubs. It almost has to be for a club with every reason to look ahead.
Everything was milk and honey on the scorecard at Wrigley Field as the Cubs beat the Angels 3-1 for their season-high ninth-straight win. There was a complication, which we'll get to in a bit.