Pirates 4, Cubs 3: Matthew Boyd deserved better

Cubs left-hander Matthew Boyd has to be the MLB King of Having His Inherited Runners Scoring. (For lack of a better term.) This has been happening frequently to Boyd — in fact, that makes three starts in a row where he left with the lead and runners on base and a Cubs reliever let those runners score and in two of the three, the Cubs thus coughed up the lead. That’s what happened Sunday at a rainy Wrigley Field that, for the first time, really felt like September. The Cubs and Boyd entered the s

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