For three days in Sacramento to start the week, the Cubs battered the A’s. Against a lesser team, they basically made it look easy. But coming home to great the Padres, winners of seven straight to start the season, they were significantly stepping up in class. This wasn’t the first time this year that the Cubs played a game that had a lot of the feel of a playoff game. The atmosphere was electric and the two sides battled tooth and nail.
The old cliché is that baseball is a game of inches. When we say that, we are most often talking about a ball that just reaches the bleachers (or the basket in Wrigley Field).