ATLANTA — How does this even happen?
I’ve seen a lot of Cubs baseball, good and bad. This might be the worst loss in franchise history, and that’s saying something. The Cubs lost 7-6 to the Braves after taking a 6-0 lead into the bottom of the sixth.
The Braves had mounted a comeback, but the Cubs were one out, one play away from going to the ninth inning with the lead.
And then Seiya Suzuki dropped the routiniest of routine fly balls, calling off Cody Bellinger in the process. And yes, David Ross contributed to this by pulling Pete Crow-Armstrong for pinch-hitter Patrick Wisdom in the eighth.