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Cubs lefty Justin Steele shook his head as he turned back toward the mound.
He’d just located a second-pitch fastball up and in, half a ball off the plate. And somehow the Pirates’ Nick Gonzales had put the barrel of his bat on it and sent it some five rows up in the left-field bleachers.
“That’s kind of the love-hate relationship with Wrigley,” Steele said after the Cubs’ 5-4 loss to the Pirates on Thursday. “Sometimes the wind’s just howling out, and you can get in one of them jet streams and it can get out.