I’m going to start out this edition of “Three up, three down” a bit differently.
The Cubs are 16 games under .500 at 32-48. There’s one game remaining — tonight at Milwaukee — before the team hits the halfway point of the 2022 season. If the Cubs win tonight, that’d be 33 wins in half a season, on pace for a 66-96 season.
I’m here to tell you that I don’t think the Cubs are that far from being at least the .500 club I thought they’d be at the beginning of this year.
One of the things the Cubs have not been good at is winning close games.