Who knew that all the Cubs needed to turn those frowns upside down was a little playtime in Williamsport, PA?
The Cubbies looked like anything but the road-weary ragtag team that struggled so mightily through their 10-game sleepwalk across Cincinnati, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh when they handed the Pirates a 7-1 loss in baseball’s annual Little League Classic.
Anthony Rizzo even bounced a home run off the scoreboard in left-center field, and he did it while being wired for sound the whole game.
And though the Cubs bats were alive and well in central Pennsylvania, it was another solid start by José Quintana that carried the team.