The Cubs’ loss to the Brewers in Game One was pretty ugly, but hey, it was closer than the Yankees-Blue Jays game, which the latter won by nine runs. So that’s something! The Yankees must be much closer to losing their series than the Cubs!
In all seriousness, there is no argument that yesterday’s game was good or even fine. Upon reflection, yes, I can talk around the loss a bit more than I was able in the moment, but even that doesn’t matter when it comes to the rest of this short, five-game series.
Concerns you had about Matthew Boyd existed before that start, and aren’t fundamentally shifted in one direction or the other because of a horrible inning.
Hopefulness you had about the Cubs’ ability to out-homer the Brewers in this series existed before the game, and isn’t fundamentally shifted in one direction or the other because they hit three more than the Brewers yesterday.
Confidence in the Cubs’ defense was sky high before the game, and isn’t fundamentally shifted in one direction or the other because a stud defender like Nico Hoerner made a completely unpredictable goof that preceded a torrent of unearned runs.
These are simply things that happened in the process of the Cubs losing the game. You cannot find meaning in them in the way you might at other times of the year. I’ve heard it said that baseball is a game enjoyed in a single day, but best understood over an entire season. I think about that most often during the regular season when I’m trying to sort my way through a bad week, digging for “true” signal underneath the noise of small sample results. I try to remember that it also implies that, in the small-sample world of the postseason, that day’s game is available to enjoy (or not), but there’s a lot less big picture available.
For example: really it was just one disastrous inning that sunk the Cubs, and how much does that mean for the long-term effectiveness of … ope, wait, that kind of thinking might be useful in April or May when you’re trying to think through what a team really is. But in October, that simply does not matter. A disastrous inning sunk the Cubs yesterday, and that is COMPLETELY MEANINGLESS for BOTH the purposes of the series (it’s 0-1, period) or projecting the rest of the games (there might be only two of them left, and they’re gonna go how they were gonna go, one disastrous inning in Game One or not).
The samples are simply too small in a series like this for bigger picture analysis and projection to matter whatsoever. What matters about yesterday’s Cubs game is that they lost. Incredibly simple? Yes. But also correct.
Nothing that happened in that first game tells us anything about what might happen in the remaining NLDS games, outside of the fact that now the Cubs can lose the whole thing with just two more losses.
You can choose to find that horrifying, or you can choose to find it comforting. I’m not sure you’re wrong either way.
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