CHICAGO — All game Monday, the Chicago Cubs made silly mistakes against the Pirates. All game, the Pirates failed to take full advantage of it.
And then, poetically, it was a Pirates mistake that cost them the game.
With one out in the bottom of the eighth and the game tied at two apiece, right-hander Yerry De Los Santos got Cubs outfielder Seiya Suzuki to hit a weak grounder to short. Oneil Cruz scooped it and tossed it over to first, a little bit wide of first baseman Michael Chavis, but not horribly so. Chavis got his glove on it, but couldn’t squeeze it in, the ball nicking off the end of his mitt and rolling to the fence in front of the Pirates’ dugout. Suzuki stayed at first, but the mistake still came back to bite the Pirates.
