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The Cubs get another strong pitching effort and beat the Mets 4-1

The Cubs win the opener in New York, 5-2

2021 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 18 Share this story Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Many days looking at Heroes and Goats is a bit of a novelty. There isn’t anything too riveting about this series when the game result is 13-4 or 16-4. The graph gets lopsided fast and many plays are exactly .000 WPA. That isn’t true for a game that spent the vast majority of time tied or within a single run. This game had all kinds of momentum swings and key WPA plays. But before we get to the meat of this one, let’s pull back and look at the bigger picture. Three games is three games. Even if we ...

2021 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 17 Share this story David Banks-USA TODAY Sports Baseball can really make you look and/or sound silly. Certainly, I got right in line with most of the critics and was burying the Cubs for an abysmal start to the season. It wasn’t just that they were losing games to the expected to be terrible Pirates that was alarming. The offense was all but dead in the water, failing to score more than five runs in a game at any point in the first two weeks. The pitching was starting to look pretty rough over the last week, particularly the starters.

2021 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 16 Share this story Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports Tuesday night’s game was a breath of fresh air after the struggles of the early season for the Cubs. Jake Arrieta had a solid outing on a cold night, allowing only one run over five innings of work. The bullpen wasn’t particularly dominant, dealing with traffic all night long, but held the Mets scoreless over the game’s final four innings. The offense wasn’t explosive, but it was effective. It clawed out three runs, something we haven’t seen a lot of this season or in recent seasons. The ability...