Baseball’s stranger-than-truth regular season ends Sunday without any major crises having occurred in Chicago.
A few early Craig Kimbrel meltdowns, an in-game Kyle Schwarber benching and the worst-hitting team in franchise history haven’t kept David Ross’s Chicago Cubs from their goal of making it back to the postseason.
On the South Side, Rick Renteria’s Chicago White Sox turned the corner in the rebuild, going from nowhere to the postseason in spite of injuries, Yoan Moncada’s early COVID-19 bout, only two consistent starters and an ulcer-inducing, final-week losing streak.
No matter what happens from here, the Cubs and Sox did what they needed to do during this pandemic-shortened season.