5 On It: Did the Cubs or White Sox have a worse loss Tuesday?
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It's time for Five On It. Rahimi Harris and Brody bring you five topics on their minds today. On 104.3 The Score. I got five on it.
Number one. Who had the worst loss last night, the Cubs or the White Sox?
For me, it was without a doubt the Cubs losing 2-1 to the A's. As much as I love a hard-fought 2-1 ballgame when you win, I'm equally as angry when you lose one. Because it's only 2-1 and you're at home. And as we said, you made a new prospect look like all-world gauge jump. Looked like he just went out there and absolutely handed it to the Cubs. That was... He wasn't the only one.
Who had the worst loss, the Cubs or the White Sox?
Then we see the Cubs go several innings without even getting a single hit. And speaking of singles, that's what they had to deal with. And as usual, they had issues with runners in scoring position. It came down to Alex Bregman, just looked at a breaking ball in the ninth inning. Yeah, it was same song, different verse, 2-1, bleh.
I think it was the White Sox, actually. Because I think anytime you're facing a division opponent and you have your ace on the mound and you spot said ace, a 3-0 lead, you got to find a way to win that game. And I know a lot of it was on Davis Martin because he gave up a season-high six runs on 10 hits. And they were right there. They were within striking distance. They lose in the eighth inning. They put the tying run on base with Chase Meidroth at the plate, but he strikes out. But they're right there. The reason why I think this one is worse than the Cubs' loss is because the Cubs, I've seen that so many times, I kind of come to not be shocked or surprised by it.
But you're always close to a win at 2-1.
There's always a chance. Doesn't get closer than that, right? They had the tying and the go-ahead run on base with two outs. I'm sorry. They had the tying and go-ahead run on base with nobody out.
There's that. Yes. Yeah.
That's bad.
Infinite chances.
That's bad. But also, I've seen that too many times. I saw it the game before against St. Louis in the series finale. I saw it in the first inning of this game, although they were able to at least make contact and get a run home. But for the Cubs, this has become the norm. When you bat .222 with runners in scoring position over the course of a third of a season... I can't say, oh, that's too small of a sample size. No, that's just who you are. That's just who you are. With the White Sox, who they have been is a team that when Davis Martin gets on the hill, they went over 90% of the time heading into last night. And he had a 3-0 lead. It'd be different if it was like a 0-0 game and he gives up four runs.
Then I would probably say the Cubs' worst was lost. But you can't squander. And this is the difference between being... uh an okay team and a team that has aspirations of being a playoff team is you gotta win when you spot your ace a three-run lead yeah so we're both disappointed is what i just heard yeah i'm disappointed in both teams i'm just a little bit more disappointed in the white socks because it was the twins and now the twins are just three and a half games behind you in the standings number two here's some more disappointing stuff what was the most disappointing factor of the cubs two to one loss in game one against the ace
Okay, so after giving this some thought, you know, because we talked about this backstage, if you will, I'm not going to be mad at a guy for utilizing his time to shine and gauge jump. Okay, so that takes that out of the equation, even though I hate that it was against the Cubs. Then I'm going to think about the fact that the Cubs went several innings without having a single hit to speak of. So... That was equally as frustrating when you think about the third, the fourth, the fifth, the sixth, the seventh, and the eighth innings. Not having that, that was not great. But I think it was the fact that you had a great start from Jamison Tyo, where he seemed to right his ship, giving up the one solo home run, gave up both earned runs of the game, but only the one solo shot, and only had one walk and had six strikeouts.
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