2019 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 52

Photo by Tim Warner/Getty ImagesA while back, I noted the curiosity that was the Cubs and 6-5 games this year. I noted it because they won back to back games and three of five by that score. But now they’ve lost two of their last five games by that score. With that, fully nine games have been one side or the other of that final score. On the one hand, that’s a little bit of a statistical oddity. Some randomness in a season.

On the other hand, in 16 different games the Cubs have played in one of the teams finished with six runs. Four of those were losses. Going deeper, eight times this year the losing team in a Cubs game scored six or more runs. There are a whole lot of runs being scored in…