Saturday afternoon’s 11-2 Cubs loss to the Reds was, without question, the worst, most dispiriting defeat of the season so far.
I’m a little bit sanguine about this one. These things are going to happen even to the best of teams. Remember the 2016 Cubs, the 103-win World Series champions? They lost 15 of 20 at one point in June and early July, and during that stretch got swept by the Mets and were outscored 34-11 in that series. Last year the Cubs got swept by the awful Padres and scored only five runs in three games, and later on in the season lost two of three to the 96-loss Phillies, who were on a run winning nine of 12.