The big news this morning is, of course, the trade of Mike Montgomery to the Royals for Martin Maldonado. You can read all about that here.
But the baseball schedule does not wait for transactions, and so the Cubs continued play Monday evening. If that sounds like strange wording, I don’t have many good things to say about the Cubs’ 6-3 loss to the Reds, which was marred by sloppy defense and questionable managerial decisions after six pretty good innings.
Kyle Hendricks allowed a two-out homer to Eugenio Suarez in the first inning, then settled down and allowed no further runs through the fifth.