One minute, the Cubs are riding high and making the Cardinals look like Clark the Cub, which is to say they beat the pants off them. But no sooner had they moved into a virtual tie atop the division with a Brewers loss than the Cubs promptly went out and laid an egg in their series finale in St. Louis.
And that’s pretty much the way things have gone over the course of the season, particularly the last few weeks. Even though the Cubs are 15-7 since dropping consecutive games to the Indians at Wrigley in late May, they’ve scored more than one run in only a single one of those losses.