2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 68

Photo by Mitchell Leff/Getty ImagesFor the first seven games of this road trip, the Cubs were pretty good at not getting behind on pitching. Last night, going after the win in the eighth game, they got behind. So we knew going into this game that if Ben Brown didn’t start strong, they might have some trouble. He didn’t start strong and despite not pitching well, there he was into the sixth inning. This was exactly the scenario you didn’t want to develop.

On the other side, I saw some talk that perhaps Jesús Luzardo had been tipping pitches in his last two starts. It feels to me that both the Blue Jays and the Brewers who lit him up in his last two starts have been the kind of teams who have…