The outfielder lost a ball in the lights, turning the Cubs' one-run lead into a one-run deficit in the eighth inning.
trying to make a diving catch in right field — gave the Cubs a 4-0 lead in the third inning. Steele, though, couldn’t finish the sixth inning, and Ross took the ball from his ace after 90 pitches, leaving a shaky bullpen exposed against Atlanta’s high-powered offense. If it happened earlier in the night — or if the Cubs made a few more plays around him — Suzuki’s error could have been an afterthought.
“There’s multiple things that happen in a game that could go a different way and the result of the game could end up being different,” Steele said. “Everybody’s on his side. We’re picking him up. We wouldn’t be here without him. He’s just a great ballplayer, and we need him.”Suzuki, through an interpreter, acknowledged the stadium lights were a factor but said he did not want to use that as an excuse.
“I was actually seeing it pretty well until the very last second,” Suzuki said. “I honestly thought it went into my glove. It was just that split second where it blurred my vision.” These are moments that can shape legacies and either strengthen or weaken partnerships among the manager, the front office and the ownership group. Getting a taste of winning in 2015 changed the Cubs organization. Those three playoff rounds boosted the budget for baseball operations in 2016, accelerated the growth of young players and sharpened the focus for a World Series campaign. Momentum can also shift in the opposite direction if there is a late-season collapse.
The 1998 Cubs made the playoffs as a wild card by winning Game 163, a tiebreaker that no longer exists in Major League Baseball’s format. These Cubs don’t hold the head-to-head tiebreaker over the
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