The Cubs misplaced an ideal sport within the stupidest manner attainable

The Chicago Cubs have been round since 1903. Wrigley Area opened in 1914. One way or the other, no Cubs participant has ever thrown an ideal sport, and there has by no means been an ideal sport at Wrigley Area.

Each of these streaks have been nearly damaged on Friday afternoon, however an ideal sport bid by Cubs starter Drew Smyly was misplaced on simply in regards to the silliest play attainable. Smyly took an ideal sport into the highest of the eighth inning in opposition to the mighty Los Angeles Dodgers with the North Siders holding a 13-0 lead. David Peralta got here up as a pinch hitter to steer off the eighth, and hit a sluggish dribbler down the third bottom line.

This could have been a routine play for the primary out of the inning. As a substitute, Cubs catcher Yan Gomes collided with Smyly, flipped over his again, and knocked him to the bottom. The runner was protected at first. Watch a video of the play right here:

Cubs followers couldn’t consider it.

A minimum of Cubs supervisor David Ross saved his humorousness about it:

This is able to be a ridiculous manner for any workforce to lose an ideal extra. It’s much more ridiculous whenever you consider that each the Cubs and Wrigley Area have existed for greater than 100 years with out ever seeing an ideal sport. Baseball is stuffed with wild stats, and that is certainly one of them:

A minimum of Cubs followers can take solace of their workforce being one of many greater nice surprises in baseball to begin the season. The North Siders have received 5 of their final six video games, and at the moment are 12-7 on the season.

The look ahead to an ideal sport in Wrigley continues.