Often, we hear about a sports contest’s game result being “closer than the score indicated.”
That was certainly the case for the Cubs’ 8-2 loss to the Tigers Wednesday evening at Wrigley Field, where the game was a two-run deficit for most of the late innings until a disastrous ninth.
Let’s go back to the beginning, though.
Jameson Taillon allowed some first-inning traffic but got out of the inning scoreless. The Cubs, as has seemed traditional for most of this year, didn’t score in that inning either.
Then Taillon made two bad pitches in the second, both after putting a man on base.