Survival of the Strangest

I can’t even with this game. I swear.

We’re talking about a game where Jon Lester pitched well enough to win, but gave up a solo homer to Billy Hamilton (not the Hall of Famer), and then Hector Rondon blew a save, and the Chicago Cubs couldn’t buy a hit for something like nine innings. Then in extras, Joe Maddon ran out of bench guys, so we had this:

I can’t even.One night after Kris Bryant went nuts, the Cubs were held scoreless through most of the extra innings until the top of the 15th, when Bryant himself punched through the go-ahead run before Javier Baez killed a baseball to put the game away. But before then, the bullpen had to hold the Cincinnati Reds in check, and they did, with…