Well, that was inconvenient.

The Cubs, on the cusp of clinching home field for the Wild Card series against the Padres, have not been able to take a single digit off the magic number for such things since Friday. It remains at 4 after the Cubs lost to the Reds 1-0 for the second time this weekend, and the Padres defeated the White Sox in Chicago Sunday afternoon.

The lack of offense ruined an outstanding outing from Jameson Taillon, who threw seven innings and allowed just that single run, in the third on a pair of Reds doubles, one by Matt McLain, the other by Gavin Lux. That’s the same way the Reds scored that single run in Thursday’s series opener, two doubles, only by different hitters.

There really aren’t any highlights to show you or play-by-play that’s worth talking about here, o

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