After the Cubs were swept in New York in the “Agee game” and the “black cat game,” they moved on to Philadelphia, where an out-of-gas offense got shut down by the Phillies 6-2 on September 10. It was the Cubs’ seventh straight defeat.
Even so, they entered action on the night of September 11 in Philadelphia just one game behind the Mets (though two behind in the loss column) with 19 games remaining. There’s still enough time to come back, right? Right?
That might be true, but the Cubs were in disarray after losing seven games in a row.