By now all good Chicago Cub baseball fans have heard about last night’s 4-3 marathon loss to Pittsburgh. And in accessing the loss it’s easy to point fingers at a number of plays or characters.
We could start with the three Cub fielding bungles, Michael Barrett’s throwing error in the 15th easily the costliest.
Or we could back up to the ninth inning where Ryan Dempster blew his first save of the season. Dempster surrendered a one-out walk to that feared batsman Nate McLouth, who’s one home run and .233 batting average is every reason in the world to nibble at the corners. McLouth went on to score the tying run.
And if we care to, we can even go further back and parcel some well-placed finger pointing at Cubs batsmen. For it was in the eighth Chicago had the opportunity to put some insurance runs on the board.
I can only believe the Cubs were beginning to feel the effects of a long day at that point. How else does one explain failing to advance runners from second and third and nobody out?
Bad luck? Bad breaks? Or just bad baseball? All three?
I have another theory. Tuesday.
Whatever miscues, misfires or missed opportunities that occurred during the game, it was nothing compared to what faced them when the clock struck midnight nearly 24 hours earlier.
Why Tuesday, you ask? Simple.
I’ve provided a handy chart showing the Cubs record on each day of the week:
| Chicago Cubs vs. The Days of the Week | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Mon | Tues | Wed | Thurs | Fri | Sat |
| 1-3 | 1-4 | 0-5 | 3-1 | 1-1 | 3-2 | 5-0 |
In six weeks of baseball the Cubs have yet to fly the “W” flag over Wrigley following a Tuesday game. While last week’s 8-6 win will go in the books as a “Tuesday win,” technically the game officially ended on Wednesday.
The numbers don’t lie. Tuesday is the latest curse, with Sunday and Monday not far behind.
It sure seemed a lot simpler when all Cub fans had to blame was the Curse of the Billy Goat.
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