What an odd little game this was, the Cubs’ 2-0 loss to the Astros Sunday afternoon.
Of course, you’re not going to win many games when you have just six hits and go 1-for-9 with RISP.
But what I also want to talk about is Jameson Taillon’s outing. He threw a ridiculous number of pitches in the first inning alone, 30 in all. Seventeen of those pitches were foul balls, eight of those by Isaac Paredes, who really made Taillon work in a 12-pitch at-bat that ended with a single.
Taillon managed to get out of that inning scoreless, as he did in the second, third and fourth, but the pitch count continued to rise.