There’s a good reason you’re getting a photo of a sign at Sloan Park as the lead photo to this recap of the Cubs’ 5-0 loss to the Rangers on the warmest day of the spring so far (it hit 85 degrees).
That’s because there really were no good Cubs things at all in this game, at least not offensively. They had three hits and drew five walks, but just three Cubs got past first base, none past second.
A lot of this happened because Yu Darvish, who was supposed to start this game, was scratched due to a cough, which sent him to a local hospital:
In tweets from the hospital Thursday morning, Darvish said in Japanese that he had been coughing since Wednesday and didn’t want to be in the clubhouse because he couldn’t be certain he didn’t have the coronavirus.