2018 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 114

I’d be the happiest guy in the world if I heard the Cubs had gone out after Tuesday night’s game to celebrate Anthony Rizzo’s birthday Wednesday (and Jason Heyward’s today). People get angry about stuff like that. Every game being sacred and all of that. But I tend to think they are human and that it’s pretty hard to dial it up to 11 for 162 games. The Cubs largely appear to have had it turned up to about 3 for the game against the Royals last night. It wasn’t pretty.

To be fair to Jose Quintana, for most of the first six innings he was very good. He was the latest guy in the Cubs rotation who I’ve seen trashed and have it suggested that he be left out of the playoff rotation. The collective…