by Boutros Boutros Ghali

Once again, the Cubs show up without offense or defense in a game against the Mets. The Handsome Youngsters went deep twice, but that was the extent of any sort of offense in the game. On defense, they committed 1 error, but I feel like there should have been at least two more. 

In the first inning, the first batter, hit the second pitch right to short stop for an easy out by Javy Baez. Unfortunately, Joan Baez was wearing his uniform and she is an advocate of passive resistance which allowed the ball to slide right past putting Granderson on base instead of getting the first out. 

Luckily, the Grandy Man got caught trying to steal some candy before David Wright hit a single out to left field. With only one down, Kyle Hendricks went right after sudden superstar Daniel Murphy to get him on three straight pitches. 

Cespedes came on with two outs and hit a double to the gap in left field. Wright is definitely feeling better since his back injury and got on his horse to score from first base on the double. Cubs 0-Mets 1. 

The wild strike zone was in effect yet again in this game as Fowler went up against deGrom. The home plate ump was all over the place early in the game. He was somewhat consistent with the calling the shoetop strike, but there's nothing anyone can really do with that pitch even if they did swing at it so he was basically screwing everybody with it all night. 

Even with a crazy strike zone, Kyle Schwarber, The Great Schwarbino, The Schwarbeast, The SchWARbhammer, The Schwarbear, The Schwarboard Buster was not going to be denied. He swung at a pitch 10.5 inches off the plate and put the thing in the left field bleachers. It was the furthest away from the strike zone anyone had hit a homer this year. 

Rizzo and Castro both singled as well, but the Cubs were unable to capitalize with any more runs in the first inning. Cubs 1/Mets 1. 

Hendricks made it through the second inning with spit and duct tape. After giving up a single and a walk to start the inning, Baez was able to get the lead runner going to third base. deGrom, which in Spanish translates to "of the 80's hair" hit into a double play to end the threat.

 deGrom and his frilly locks of love went through the Cubs in 1-2-3 fashion in the second inning. The Cubs were struggling with the amoeba strike zone and could not get anything going. 

These are all strikes. 

Hendricks looked like he was going to cruise through the second inning by striking out the first two batters with a little help from the cataracts behind the plate. Then Murphy came to the plate and tied a major league record. 

Murphy took a sinker that did not sink all the way over the center field wall for a home run. With two outs and nobody on, they should have walked him. Cespedes popped out to end the inning, but it was Cubs 2-Mets 1. 

deGrom learned his lesson and walked Schwarber in the third inning, but he got everyone else out so it didn't matter. 

Duda hit through the shift in the fourth inning for a leadoff single, but Hendricks was able to handle the next three hitters with no real issues. 

With one out and down by one run, Jorge Soler went deep to center field to tie the game. It was so beautiful that even TBS could not ruin it. (although they did try.)

Unfortunately, the rest of the Cubs could not add to it. Maddon even went to the bench very early for Coghlan but it did not help. It was a weird place to try to pinch hit with nobody on and deGrom up first for the Mets in the fifth. But that's what Joe did and it did not work out. Cubs 2-Mets 2. 

Clayton Richard came on for the Cubs and surprisingly got to throw against more than one batter. Usually Richard induces a ground out in one or two pitches and leaves the game, but this time he got to face four batters. He got a groundout, gave up a walk and a single, and then got a double play ball in 10 pitches. 

deGrom continued to rock out against the Cubs with another 1-2-3 inning. 

Trevor Cahill replaced Richard in the sixth inning and just when it looked like everything was going to be okay, it sucked. With two outs, Cahill struck out Michael Conforto (translations "with forties"), but the ball bounced away from Montero and Cespedes was able to score on the past ball for what would turn out to be the game winning run

The Mets would have scored more in this inning on a terrible play by Jorge Soler in right field. I know these are not considered errors, but goat damn it was so stupid it deserved an error. Soler dove for a ball that did not need to be caught and the ball went past him all the way to the wall allowing another run to score. 

Luckily for Soler, Wrigley Field sucked that ball up into her ivy, which is a ground rule double. This made Conforto return to third base and took the run off the board. Terry Collins almost blew a vein in his forehead arguing, but the play stood as called. 

Wrigley Field had saved the Cubs. deGrom was up next and hit into a pop fly out and the Cubs were only down by one run despite the idiocy of Soler. I honestly thought it was going to change the game right then, but the heart of the Cubs lineup went down in order to move to the seventh inning with the Cubs 2-Mets 7. 

Travis Wood and Justin Grimm combined for the seventh inning and two runs scored by the Mets. Wood put them on and Grimm let them in to open a three run lead. 

Ron Santo was on the big board singing the stretch, but if he had been alive he'd be cussing the Cubs out up in the booth.

Schwarber dropped a line drive out to left field that went in and then out of his glove for the first run of the inning. Then Duda grounded out to Rizzo who got the out at first and fired home to Montero who was not really in the proper position to get the out. Murphy scores on the late tag. Cubs 2-Mets 3. 

The Cubs did nothing with the rest of their at bats. Only Fowler was able to hit a double but he got stranded on second base in the 8th inning. 

That was the game. The Mets basically scored two and then the Cubs defense gave up three runs. Now the Cubs are down 0-3 to the Mets going into game 4 tomorrow night. 

Before you get all shitty and light your house on fire, remember, it isn't over yet. The Red Sox did it in order to win their first World Series this century and the Cubs could possibly do it too. The last two times the Cubs lost three straight, they came back to win 6 and 8 games respectively. 

If they do either one of those, they are in the World Series still battling for a title. If not, they won 101 games this season and shocked the world.

That's the Reckless Recap. Go Cubs! Four straight's not that hard, right?