It’s a broken record, but not the good kind: Jeff Samardzija was great today, but winds up with the loss thanks to a completely ineffectual offense, headed up by Joe Mather in the leadoff spot (.250 OBP has leadoff written all over it). Samardzija is up to 165.2 innings on the year, by the way, and it’s getting close to the time to Strasburg him.
And the Cubs were kind enough to tease us today …