Angels 7, Cubs 0: Ten things I hated about this game

An apt metaphor for this game, from Colten BrewerIf the headline to the recap of the Cubs’ 7-0 loss to the Angels Saturday sounds vaguely familiar, it’s a takeoff of this 1999 movie title, and the movie was based on this Shakespeare play.

Neither of those things has much to do with this game, I just like the idea of framing it as “10 things I hated,” so here we go.

1. Kyle Hendricks got himself in trouble in the first inning with a walk, a couple of dinky hits, and eventually a HBP which produced an Angels run. It might have been more runs if not for this nifty double play turned by Seiya Suzuki [VIDEO].

Fact about the RBI HBP from BCB’s JohnW53:

In 1,511 career innings before today, Kyle…