Andy Johnson

But when you're over 30, something had to change.

And unfortunately...

It wasn't quite as much as he goes, they go, the Cubs.

But it was an indication of how this team offensively has struggled.

So he ends up coming in in a pinch hit situation.

Matt Shaw was at first base.

And Bush comes through.

singles in the bottom of the eighth inning.

And also thanks to an error, you know, put your opposing team in a position to not succeed.

And that brings around, say, a Suzuki.

And it helps the Cubs get to that bottom of the ninth to walk it off and at least get one game.

from this series with the Pirates.

It's not two out of three, but your job on that day is to try to win that one.

And at least that's what happened.

You're in first place.

In the words of 2 Chainz, the philosopher of our time.

Credit to Scott Merkin, another great philosopher of our time, the White Sox writer for MLB.com, who at 240 yesterday pointed out that the Cubs and White Sox were a combined one for 40 with runners in scoring position over their respective weekend series.

That's rough.

It was bad.

Well, yeah, because good teams do that.