There’s a word, there are words for what happened to the Cincinnati Reds during their series in Wrigley Field against the Chicago Cubs, but I’m still having a hard time picking the right ones.
In 4 games, the Reds surrendered 46 total runs, the most in any single 4-game series they have played since films had no sound. In 4 games, the Cubs scored 46 total runs, the most in any 4-game series they have played since the days where wind and horse were still preferred methods of travel.
The thing is, the Reds did manage to win a game within it all before the Cubs brontosaurused their way past them for the final three, and a funny thing happened between those two tide-turns: Major League Baseball’s trade deadline came, and went, with the two teams taking very divergent paths.