2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 51

Photo by Jeff Dean/Getty ImagesFor a minute there, you thought the stories would be the bad first inning for Matthew Boyd and the continuing implosion of Julian Merryweather. These aren’t those Cubs. This team has so much fight in it and so a 6-2 early deficit became a 13-6 win. Eleven unanswered runs over the game’s final three innings. I’ll mention the two early storylines in passing. Boyd has been great. He’s earned a clunker without us giving up on him. I’ll at least give him a nod for bouncing back and allowing one run over three after the disastrous first.

Julian Merryweather is not combat operational at this time. You never want to wish injury on anyone, but you have to hope there is…