This is not the way we had hoped this series would go.
After an uncharacteristic bad outing from Matthew Boyd Monday, there was at least hope that Colin Rea could put together a good one Tuesday.
Welp. Didn’t happen, and the Cubs also got poor relief work and some unusual bad defense from Pete Crow-Armstrong, Matt Shaw and Nico Hoerner. All of that added up to a 9-3 loss to the Brewers, dropping the Cubs two games out of first place in the NL Central. They hadn’t been this far out of the top spot since March 30, when they lost to the Diamondbacks and were 2½ games behind.