Cubs Season is Over

Well, to say I'm disappointed would be an understatement. Devastated might be a better word for my feelings towards the Cubs losing the NL wildcard game to the Colorado Rockies in 13 innings 2-1. It hurts right now just because I have been watching this team day in and day out since February and there won't be anymore Cubs games this year.  This is something no one saw coming, on Sunday the Cubs were tied for the best record in the NL and 48 hours later they are done for the season. They lost game 163 to the Brewers which hurt but the season wasn't over after that loss. They came into a do or die game last night winner goes and plays the Brewers in the NLDS and loser goes home. Jon Lester took the hill for the Cubs and he was terrific. He might be one of the greatest big-game pitchers of our generation. Lester was lights out last night after struggling to find his fastball command in the first he was looked in, striking out 9 in his six innings of work. He did everything he could to keep the Cubs in that game but as it has been most of the second half of the year the offense was nowhere to be found. Scoring one run in both of the last two games is just unacceptable. The two biggest games of the year and that is what they show, just cant happen. The Cubs showed life in the 8th with a two-out hit by the Captain, Anthony Rizzo, he was then lifted for a pinch runner, the speedster Terrance Gore. He did what he did best and stole 2nd base. Then on a two-strike two out, Javy Baez shot a ball into the left-center gap for a double bringing home Gore and tying the game and sent Wrigley into a frenzy. The Cubs showed life and Cubs fans were feeling good. But after that point, the Cubs did not have another hit the rest of the game and the game went into the 13 innings. The pitching was phenomenal all night last night. Lester, Chavez, Ciesek, Strop, Hamels, Hendricks, and De la Rosa all pitched in the all hands on deck game. But the offense just couldn't find their groove at all.

   With all that being said there have to be changes coming to this offseason. Theo, Jed,  Jason, and the front office will not stand for this performance, it just will not happen.  With this free agent class this offseason they will make a splash. Bryce Harper is number one on my list and most other Cubs fans list.  The Cubs need to add more offense of firepower because it obviously was not enough this season.  Chili Davis, the Cubs hitting coach also needs to be fired the Chicago Cubs can not look like that the plate. His philosophy of hitting is just not what this Cubs team needs. They have so much power and I feel like he almost neutralizes the hitter hitting for power.
Things will get better with time but it does really hurt today knowing the Cubs won't play again till next year but I'm already excited about what is in store for next season