What you need to know: Early home runs from Willson Contreras and Randal Grichuk along with an RBI double from old friend Dexter Fowler had things knotted up through four and a half innings. That’s when Anthony Rizzo stepped to the plate and drove in a run to give the Cubs the lead. That is, until […]
Day: July 21, 2017
Gauging Willson Contreras’s Excellence
The 2017 season opened with a walk-off loss to the Cardinals, on national television, at the hands of the Actually Bad Randal Grichuk. Coming off a World Series win, it was difficult to feel down about the loss—but then they kept coming. Until recently, it seemed impossible for the Cubs to snap off a winning […]