2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 55

Photo by Griffin Quinn/Getty ImagesIf Monday’s night made part of Cubs fandom antsy, then a lot of skin was crawling Tuesday night in Chi-town. Always hear me clearly, I’m not throwing it back just because it may not have been a fully satisfying victory. There was a lot of good. No one gifted the Cubs a win. Certainly, over 162 games, there will be games when the Cubs do everything right and come up short anyway. I don’t know that these things even out, but they do cut both ways.

Let’s single out some of the good. Cade Horton pitched into the seventh. Unfortunately, the one batter he faced in the seventh homered to tie the game at two. Extra-inning runs are unearned. The Cubs bullpen did not…