Pirates 12, Cubs 1: The complaint department is OPEN

I thought about a lot of ways to recap the Cubs’ 12-1 loss to the Pirates Monday evening.

Once again, there was the “The Cubs lost and that’s it!” idea, considering that this was the third time in the team’s last nine games that they have lost by double digits. But you come here for a game recap and so you shall have one. (Don’t think I’m not getting tempted to do that one-sentence recap, though.)

Or perhaps a do-it-yourself recap, but I just did one of those last month and... definitely too soon.

So, here goes.

I knew this game was in trouble in the first inning when, with Rafael Ortega on first base and two out, Ian Happ hit a ball to deep center field. At first, it looked like it might leave…