Home cooking wasn’t enough to stop the bleeding for the Cubs on Monday night. Zach Davies didn’t pitch all that badly. We often describe a start as just good enough to win. How to describe this one instead? He didn’t quite pitch well enough to keep them from losing. Five innings of two run ball. It’s not awful. But with the regression monster eating the Cubs bullpen alive, it really isn’t good enough.
The offense once again managed two runs before garbage time. They did add a third run, on a solo homer, after the game was pretty much out of reach.