News broke early in the day that Anthony Rizzo was going to be batting leadoff on Tuesday. The move smelled like a bit of desperation to me. Luckily, it wasn’t the only thing I had wrong on the night. Rizzo hit the second pitch of the game to dead center, over 450 feet by my estimation, to get the Cubs on the board early.
Unfortunately, Cubs pitchers in the first inning are like the kids game, Mad Libs.
__(last name)__ pitched very __(verb)__ and gave __(name of city)__ an early run(s).
Jon Lester escaped the first giving up only one run.