Let’s be straight about this. The Cubs, as currently constituted, are clearly an inferior team to the White Sox. Thus, the Sox were — and ought to have been — prohibitive favorites in this series. I thought maybe, with Kyle Hendricks starting, the Cubs might have a shot at winning Friday’s game.
A 16-minute rain delay, four hours and 27 minutes of baseball and one spectacular blown save by former Cub Craig Kimbrel, the White Sox put together a four-run 10th inning and defeated the Cubs 8-6, though they needed three of the four runs once the Cubs scored in the last of the 10th.