Bleed Cubbie Blue · May 17, 2025
2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 45
Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty ImagesThe Cubs continue to excel in the first game of each series, particularly at Wrigley Field. I still suspect most of this is random sequencing. It’s ironic, because the way the Cubs can make other pitching staffs work, I might expect them to do well at the end of a series. But that hasn’t been the way it’s gone so far in 2025. I don’t think it means anything. But it’s certainly something to keep an eye on. It harkens back a handful of years. The Cubs once talked about lacking the killer instinct to close out series, that they were leaving too many games behind.