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Cubs vow to learn from game-deciding miscue
- Updated: August 29, 2016
LOS ANGELES — Ben Zobrist took responsibility, but it was Javier Baez who misread a play, and the miscue cost the Cubs in a 1-0 loss to the Dodgers on Sunday. Manager Joe Maddon doesn’t anticipate the same thing to happen in October.
The Cubs and Dodgers were scoreless with one out in the eighth, and Los Angeles loaded the bases as reliever Trevor Cahill hit a batter, then fielded Howie Kendrick’s grounder and overthrew first for an error. Corey Seager was intentionally walked, and Maddon called on rookie Carl Edwards Jr. , who struck out Justin Turner on a 97 mph fastball.
Adrian Gonzalez was up, and Zobrist, playing second, had shifted back. Gonzalez then hit a grounder to Baez at third, and he threw to second. But Zobrist was late to the bag, and everyone was safe. A run scored, and that’s all the Dodgers needed to take the series.
“We blinked, and they win,” Maddon said.
The Cubs did challenge the ruling at second, but after review, the call stood. That didn’t make Baez or Zobrist feel any better.
“He made a mistake,” Maddon said of Baez. “I’ve made mistakes when I was that age. He made a mistake today.”
Because Gonzalez is a slow runner, Baez had a much better chance of throwing him out at first, which would’ve ended the inning. But Baez said he was thinking about throwing the second as soon as he got the …
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