Tuesday’s ugly loss in Detroit was one of those throwaway games, the kind you just crumple up and throw in the trash. The only problem for David Ross and the Cubs is that their wastebasket is already getting a little full as they prepare to close out the first half of the season. Adding to the disappointment of the lopsided outcome was that it provided little clarity in terms of the rotation, which should ostensibly be at full strength now.
Not that anyone expected either Tyler Chatwood or José Quintana to be anything more than reasonable facsimiles of themselves, but the blurry ditto-machine duplicates on display in Detroit looked and smelled off.