Addison Russell’s Failure to Acknowledge Ill-Advised Throw Symptom of Bigger Issues

You don’t need the deductive reasoning skills of Sherlock Holmes, or even the sixth sense possessed by most parents, to understand what’s going on with the Cubs. Heck, in cases like Tuesday night, when mental errors and sloppy baseball bit them in the rear yet again, one of the guilty parties unwittingly told you what he’d done. Then he doubled down on it.

The Cubs had already fought through the utterly predictable plot twist of Yu Darvish giving up an early lead and then allowing a home run to Josh Bell to break a tie a couple innings later. But when Victor Caratini came up with a go-ahead homer of his own, it actually seemed for a moment as though someone may have rewritten the script.

And…