Boring Cubs Game Results in Loss to Mets

A word of advice to those of you who love watching the Cubs score runs.  Don't show up in the second inning if you want to actually see any runs scored.  Well, at least when Matt Harvey of the Mets is pitching.  Harvey looked shaky in the first inning and then cruised to victory with 6.1 more innings of scoreless baseball.  The Cubs did nothing for the other 8 innings, while Edwin Jackson pitched well enough, giving up 3 runs, two of them on solo homers.  Struck out 4, walked one....blah blah bored.  The only actual play worth mentioning is when with one out in the 8th and Darwin Barney on second,  David DeJesus singled sharply, ostensibly driving in the winning run, but David Bell, our fearless third base coach, waved Barney around third, which was in hindsite a terrible move, because ex Cub Marlon Byrd threw him out by about 10 feet!  It looked bad.  So, instead of 1st and 3rd, one out, we had two outs and a man on second.  Cub Rally Fail!

Dale Sveum, when asked about the Barney play said "these things happen".  Duh!  Of course they happen.  But Barney was rounding 3rd when Byrd got the ball.  He shouldn't have been sent.  Period.  I don't know if we score that run anyway, but we certainly weren't going to score it this way.  Ugh.  Just lame.  Boring.

The Cubs also committed two errors, but neither resulted in a run, so whatevs....We now have 33, but luckily the Nationals still stink at fielding too, and have consistently had two more than us.  I really do hope the fielding can improve.  It's going to cost us a lot more games if they can't get their act together.

All in all, it was a boring boring game.  Almost as boring as this blog post.  So I'll just stick to my main tenants.  Fire Sveum.  Spend money on good players.  No scoreboard.  No Wave at Wrigley.
So what's happening today you ask?

Well, the lovable Lou Sears and I will be attending todays early game 12:05 start.  It'll be Jeremy "Hugh" Hefner 0-4 with a 4.61 ERA vs. Scott "formerly known as Chinstrap" Feldman 3-3 with a 2.53.  Hoping for a better result to this one, or at least a game that's not as boring as yesterdays.

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