2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 89

David Banks-Imagn ImagesEvery time your bullpen falters late and costs you a game, it is unfortunate. This one feels a little more unfortunate. Obviously, you hate to ever yield the Cardinals even an inch. But more so, this weekend has been Michael Busch’s explosion weekend. Four homers in two days. Seven hits. Six runs driven in. Four runs scored. There are some really great players who never do that over two consecutive games in their career. A couple of homers against lefties. What a weekend for the Cubs first baseman.

A 5-3 lead wasn’t any kind of gimme. But it was easy to feel that with that lead heading to the eighth and then turning the ball over to Brad Keller to be followed by…