The Cubs lost today for any combination of reasons – the offense struggled, Starlin Castro made two errors (the first of which set off a chain of runs), Chris Volstad wasn’t overly great, Dale Sveum made some odd bench use choices, and so on and so on. Castro delivered the Cubs their only run of the day, so it’s hard to get too much on his case for the errors (and I keep telling myself: “He’s just 22, he’s just 22, he’s just 22.”).
As for the Cardinals, well, it keeps happening, despite the departure of Tony La Russa and Dave Duncan…