Of course, the Cubs won with apparent ease as soon as they returned home Friday from another nightmarish road trip.
“It’s our fans,” shortstop Javy Baez said after powering the 6-2 victory over the Brewers – before suddenly realizing the Cubs have the best road following in the National League. “So it should be the same.”
In fact, the Cubs’ home-and-road difference so spectacular in what manager Joe Maddon calls a “bipolar” sense that fixing the road problem has become an organizational focus for the final two months.
“We’re all embarrassed by not having won a road series since May [19].