Tuesday night was a bad night to be a Chicago Cubs batting helmet. Star outfielders Kyle Tucker and Pete Crow-Armstrong slammed them with more force than they put on the baseballs pitched to them.
In a frustrating 5-1 loss in Toronto, the Cubs fell 7 1/2 games back of the history-making Milwaukee Brewers (who destroyed Paul Skenes). It was another familiar tale; a lack of offense with Tucker, Crow-Armstrong and Seiya Suzuki remaining ice-cold at the plate. We have seen the young PCA get frustrated with himself plenty of times, even when things were going well, but the usually mellow Tucker slamming his helmet in the dugout in the seventh raised some eyebrows.