Cubs 5, Rockies 0: Jameson Taillon scratched with a back issue

MESA, Arizona — Seven Cubs pitchers shut out the Rockies 5-0 at Sloan Park Saturday, allowing just three hits and striking out nine.

That should be good news. Unfortunately, one of those pitchers was not the scheduled starter Jameson Taillon.

Occasionally over the last few seasons, I’ve walked over to the Cubs bullpen to do a Facebook Live stream of the starting pitcher warming up. I hadn’t done it this year until Sh\u014dta Imanaga’s start Friday, and I decided to do it today for Jameson Taillon.

Thus I have this video for you which shows the moment Taillon had to be scratched from his start due to a back problem that happened while he was warming up:

You can see Taillon struggle with the last…