In another fun subplot, St. Louis is now in second place and holds the third wild card. I'm completely blaming FanGraphs for waking Satan up and making him see his favorite team was struggling.
When your strategy is hope the other team screws up - which is the only time the contact play is ever the difference between scoring or not scoring - your odds are bad.
Wesneski gives up a homer to the first batter a lot, it feels like.
And of course it's a basket shot after like 3 Cubs balls were hit just as hard with no results.
You know, this is a good comparison because Edwin Jackson is probably the Cub that most consistently pissed me off during his career and this team has consistently pissed me off a lot.
I said last week or so, this is far from the worst Cubs team I've followed, but they've probably been the most adept at consistently pissing me off. Just day after day of completely wasting a great run of starting pitching.
This is a fair point; we shouldn't be crapping on the entire bullpen when most of it has been OK.
We should be saying, "Well, Hector Neris is obviously going to blow this one, or at least try his damnedest to."