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Remember when I wrote these words in the recap to Friday’s game?

Friends, the Chicago Cubs are a very good baseball team

I’m not going back on those words but oh my goodness, the Cubs did not look like a very good baseball team in a blowout 17-0 loss to the Red Sox Saturday afternoon at Fenway Park.

The Red Sox scored a pair off Ben Brown in the first inning and really, everyone could have gone home right then, because the Cubs managed just five hits off five Red Sox pitchers, just one for extra bases.

The game was still fairly close at 3-0 Boston heading into the bottom of the fifth when the Cubs played what might have been their worst inning of the year, and yes worse than that seven-run mess…