Two pitches. Two home runs.
BACK-TO-BACK TO START THE 9TH! pic.twitter.com/MAsA4M07hH
— St. Louis Cardinals (@Cardinals) September 21, 2019
That’s five straight losses for a team that probably needed to go at least 4-1 in that span and do no worse than grabbing wins in three of those games. Now the Cubs are facing three enemies in their quest to make the playoffs for the fifth consecutive season: the Nationals, the Brewers, and time. Each day that Chicago doesn’t make up any ground on either of those two teams puts them closer to what I will assume is the reckoning we were promised last October.