The English language strains with great effort in an attempt to adequately describe just how much fun this baseball game was. I’d like to tell you I am up to the task, but we all know I’m not.
Aristides Aquino hit three home runs in a row. He now has seven in his first nine games this year. In his fourth AB, the Cubs were so shaken that they threw four-straight breaking balls away from the plate. They Barry Bondsed him. Aristides Aquino, in his tenth game as a major-league baseball player, got the Barry Bonds treatment.
Sonny Gray pitched an emblematic Sonny Gray game, throwing six scoreless and allowing only two hits.