A Red Sox-like miracle for the Cubs? Why it’s highly doubtful

Jacob deGromCHICAGO — Theo Epstein has experience running baseball operations for a club that rallied from 0-3 down in an LCS to beat a New York team and end a curse.

But the 2004 Yankees ran out of starting pitching to blow that ALCS. The 2015 Mets never seem to run out of starting pitching. It is like expecting an octopus to run out of tentacles.

So, you know, good luck to the Cubs trying to construct a four-game winning streak against Steve Matz, Matt Harvey, Noah Syndergaard and Jacob deGrom. It is not impossible. But Kevin Brown and Javier Vazquez are not going to be choices for Terry Collins.

The Yankees only had 1 ¹/\u2082 trustworthy starters in 2004 — Mike Mussina and Jon Lieber —…