Cardinals 2, Cubs 1: Groundhog Day, yet again

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty ImagesWhen Patrick Wisdom came to bat for Miguel Amaya with the tying and winning runs on base in the bottom of the ninth, I felt like this was kind of an inflection point for the entire 2024 season.

Wisdom, of course, has the power to smack one out of the yard. If he’d have done that, the Cubs win the game. And the wind was blowing out all day, not that it helped any Cubs fly balls.

And in a play that seemed to epitomize this Cubs season so far, Wisdom hit a ball 353 feet, which was... not quite far enough. Cardinals left fielder Brendan Donovan ran it down just in front of the ivy in left-center field, and that was that, another one-run loss, this time 2-1 to…