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The Margin Ep. 9 | ONE BAD INNING: The Cubs’ Biggest October Problem
What if the Cubs’ pitching problem isn’t nine innings long? What if it’s just one? All season, we’ve watched the same scene play out.
Leadoff walk. Single. Bad pitch. Blooper. Home run. Suddenly a manageable game becomes a crooked number — and the Cubs are trying to dig themselves out of a hole.
So this week on The Margin, we went through all 145 Cubs games through September 7 to find out just how much damage one bad inning has actually done.
The difference is staggering.
When Cubs pitching has allowed 3+ runs in a single inning, Chicago is 22–44. When they avoid that inning? 59–20. And 44 of…
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