You know how sometimes you can watch a game where the Cubs lose and say, “Well, that was a good game anyway.”
Friends, I am here to tell you that the Cubs’ 5-4 loss to the Reds was not a good game. Even if the Cubs had come back and won, which would have been nice, this was not a good baseball game. Not at all, not even close, this was a poorly-played game with way too many walks, bad fielding, bad relief pitching. wild pitches and... well, let’s start at the beginning.
Javier Assad threw two pretty good innings, helped out by a double play in the second, and then after Christopher Morel led off the bottom of the second with a single, Ian Happ smacked a baseball into the left-field bleachers [VIDEO].