It is, as has been noted here many times, difficult to sweep a series.
Still, though, the Cubs really should have won this game, of all the pitching matchups in the series.
Before I get into the meat of Friday's 5-3 Cubs loss to the Phillies, I have some advice for Jon Lester, not that he'd consider listening to me. Yes, Jon, you probably got screwed on a strike call to Cody Asche in the fourth inning, a strike-three call that would have ended the inning.
But you cannot let that stick in your craw and mess up your execution of pitches, and though I cannot say for sure, it sure seemed as if it did, because two pitches later Asche smacked a two-run double to deep center field that at the time gave the Phillies a 2-1 lead, with the Cubs having scored first on a Kris Bryant home run (his first in 20 days, incidentally, and to the opposite field, nicely done).