Pirates 8, Cubs 2: The Saturday night disaster

Photo by Joe Sargent/Getty ImagesIn case you missed last night’s game preview, it contained this fact about Zach Davies:

Zach Davies enters tonight’s outing having not allowed an earned run in his last 16\u2154 innings on the road dating to August 17, 2020 at Texas while with the Padres.. The righthander enters this evening having allowed three or fewer earned runs in a career\u2010high 19 straight outings since August 31, 2019.

Whoops. Both of those streaks came crashing to an end in the Cubs’ 8-2 loss to the Pirates.

You might not have watched much of this game, and I get it. If you did, congratulations, you have now seen the worst start of Davies’ career by Game Score (16, tying this 2016…