2022 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 83

Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty ImagesI spent most of Thursday, day and night, driving a moving truck cross country. The net result was me following the game much less than I ordinarily do. But I did check in while pumping gas and saw it was 3-0 and the Cubs had just one hit against Tony Gonsolin who is trying his darnedest to nail down a Cy Young award before the All-Star break. You can say it doesn’t work that way and you are right. Players regularly have dominant halves of baseball, don’t finish what they started and come up short for awards. But don’t tell me that writers have progressed so much that if the season ended for some reason right now that they wouldn’t give the nod to 11-0. They might not value wins as much as they once did, but a guy without a loss and a chance to win 20? That’s a good story for an award winner. Let’s see if he finishes what he started.

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