Include it up, and it was an extremely irksome loss for the Cubs, in a stretch of far a lot of those.
A couple solo homers in the very first made it appear like the Cubs were going to knock around Tyler Mahle … who thereafter continued to offer up absolutely nothing and strike out 55 Cubs. Of course, the Cubs burned us up with a two-homer teaser rally in the 9th, leaving us to wonder what may have been if one of their other cautioning track shots had gone out or if Freddy Galviss BS homer had actually remained in … sigh.
Another outlining for Kyle Hendricks in Cincinnati, where he simply can not keep the ball down.
Full box rating.
It may just be recency bias based on his last 2 starts (this year) in Cincinnati, but it simply appears like Hendricks has a helluva difficult time keeping the ball down in this ballpark. This is not him: pic.twitter.com/9SPKJNP6Zp
— Bleacher Nation (@BleacherNation) August 29, 2020
Its not quite a perfect parallel for the season so far, however that video game sure looked fantastic early for the Cubs, and after that was a whole lotta agonizing.
