Take the baseball analysis on this one and stick it up your butt.
Cole Hamels got blasted right out of the gate in his return to Philadelphia, missing his spots, and yielding crushed shot after crushed shot. It was ugly, and it was the second straight start like that. Here’s hoping he’s still just a little rusty after missing time with the oblique injury (as opposed to still feeling its effects).
Almost immediately, it was yet another trash can game for the Cubs – the kind you ball up and throw away and forget about and all that jazz.