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Well, that was unpleasant.
The eighth inning on Friday at Wrigley Field, that is.
The first-place Brewers rose up. The second-place Cubs fell apart. The home fans booed a reliever, Adbert Alzolay, who can’t get out of his own way. A gray, misty day turned nice and then, suddenly, not so nice at all.
It was the kind of game that keeps a manager up at night.
“It didn’t go well,” Craig Counsell said.
In the division rivals’ first meeting of the season, the Cubs took the field for the top of the frame with a 1-0 lead only to get so much sand kicked in their faces by the first-place Brewers, they ended up buried up to their eyeballs.