The Cubs scored two early, the starter didn’t allow any runs and they breezed to a 3-1 win. Right? Oh, is that not the game y’all watched? Instant classic gets thrown around a lot, but this one felt like it. It was tense right from the first pitch. As it turned out, the Padres apparently didn’t have Mason Miller available, but it’s hard to imagine how it would have changed the game.

This one was a chess match between the two managers from the start. I correctly had it on my prediction that Yu Darvish would never see a Cub hitter twice. There was no way the Padres were going to see their season go down in flames with Yu on the mound. This isn’t the Yu we knew and loved here in Chicago. To be fair, he was the losing pitcher after getting into all kinds of trouble quickly. Two of his runners

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