I would say it's annoying that Dansby didn't pinch-hit there under the 'day off means a day off' corollary that drives me so insane, but the way he's been going I wouldn't have trusted him much more than Wisdom, so whatever I guess
Obviously the earlier starts to seasons are a factor in this, but the Cubs Twitter account posted last night that the 18 wins broke the team record for wins prior to May 1.
I texted my friends last night that now that Taillon apparently doesn't suck anymore and Madrigal has graduated from completely useless to still bad but occasionally helpful, Neris is in the pole position to be the Cub I take out all my baseball anxieties on.
By the letter of the rule it should definitely have been called dead. I recall there being a bit of a stink about that not getting called in the bananas NLDS game 5 when Javy's bat did the same thing.