Cubs 6, Reds 5: The Most Unlikely Star

David Kohl-USA TODAY SportsI've written what you are about to read on many previous occasions, but it bears repeating this morning: Watch baseball long enough and you'll wind up seeing things you have never seen before.

I'm repeating this because Wednesday night's 6-5 Cubs win over the Reds, giving them a split of the split doubleheader, had enough "never seen before" to last an entire season, if not an entire lifetime.

I hardly know where to begin, so how about the beginning. Going into the second inning, I thought, "Well -- we're ahead of Game 1, anyway, since the Reds didn't score four runs in the first inning."

Whoops. The Reds had decided to wait a bit to spring their multi-run rally,…