WASHINGTON – The Cubs appeared to lose 5-2 to the Nationals Saturday night in Washington, but it might take a day or so to be certain.
If the Cubs weren’t sure what they were seeing at times with Washington’s Stephen Strasburg doing the lights-out thing on their lineup for eight innings, that would account for much of the result.
But the story of the game unfolded in the ninth, when the Cubs – in a flashback to Carl Edwards Jr. in Texas – watched Nationals closer Sean Doolittle touch the ground with a mid-delivery toe-tap as he pitched to Albert Almora Jr.