It’s safe to say that this is one of the more frustrating losses for the Cardinals this year. You can point to a number of things, Jack Flaherty’s third inning collapse, missed opportunities, bad umpiring, and poor decision making. I’ll discuss what I think was the culprit for today’s loss later on in the story.
The Cards scored first on an RBI groundout by Andrew Knizner, but the Cubs quickly erased the deficit and took a 4-1 lead. Home runs by Miles Mastrobuoni and Cody Bellinger and double by Christopher Morel bit the Cardinals in the third.
Flaherty wasn’t great, but aside from that third inning, he wasn’t bad and still managed to give the Cardinals six innings.