CHICAGO – What Jordan Montgomery’s excellence overshadowed Monday night at Wrigley Field was clear to see under the sunlight of Tuesday afternoon.
The Cardinals’ offense, storming out of a monsoon season sweep in Arizona over the weekend, has so far had the wind knocked out of it by a calm, cool Wrigley Field.
Held to one run on Albert Pujols’ solo homer in the first game of the series, the Cardinals ran their drought without a crooked number to 18 innings with a 2-0 loss in Game 1 of Tuesday’s doubleheader against the Cubs. As starter Adam Wainwright bebopped around four walks and several baserunners, the Cardinals were not lacking for opportunities – they had 11 stranded batters in the first eight innings – just the hits put together a run. Led by rookie right-hander Javier Assad in his major-league debut, the Cubs got a shutout from five different pitchers.
