Two days ago, if you had told me the Cubs would get both Wednesday’s and Thursday’s games in and play nine full innings in both, I might not have believed you.
Helped out by pushing up the start time of Thursday’s game by 30 minutes and by a stellar pitching performance by Jose Quintana, the Cubs posted their first shutout of the year, 2-0 over the Pirates. They also had their first sub-three hour game of 2019, two hours, 38 minutes, though by the time a rain delay was added in the eighth inning Thursday evening, the game ended around 10:15 p.