The Cubs crushed the Pirates 16-6 Sunday afternoon, another big blasting of an inferior pitching staff, for their fourth straight win. That’s great, of course, but the happiness about the three-game sweep must be tempered by worry over the ankle injury suffered by Anthony Rizzo, covered here in this article earlier this afternoon.
We don’t yet know exactly how serious this is, though it certainly didn’t look good (more on that later), and won’t until Rizzo has an MRI Monday. At the very it looks like least he could miss a week.