Cubs 3, Mets 1

(7-5, 1.5 games ahead of Philadelphia)

Notes: Full disclosure: Last night, I went to be in the middle of the seventh inning. (Had my first dose of the vaccine on Monday and I think it’s made me a bit fatigued. Or maybe I’m just tired. Or maybe I was just cold and tired watching a longer-than-expected game, which started at 7:30, on Tuesday night.) But I feel like throwing a few ideas down, so maybe this will be a thing where I do just notes the day after a late game if I don’t feel like staying up. Also, I was only half-watching the early parts of the game too…So that’s why my general impression of Taijuan Walker is that he beat himself. He got pinched by errors or by close pitch calls and it seemed like he let them get to him. I thought overall he pitched very well, especially considering the conditions. I feel good about Walker this year…J.D. Davis hit a bomb at the right time - his cleared the fence by a bunch. Pete Alonso had one early in the game that died at the wall. The conditions the Mets re playing in right now are less than ideal…What a great job by Robert Gsellman getting a strikeout to end the fourth inning with the bases loaded in relief of Walker…Two out of three in Chicago is still a possibility. With everything seeming to work against the Mets in the early going, I would take that….By the way, I still woke up fully expecting to see that the Mets had come back and won. That’s where I’m at confidence-level-wise…And congratulations to Matt Harvey for getting his first win with the Orioles Tuesday night. He’s been kind of a consistent 2-3 runs in 4 or 5 innings guy so far this year. Last night it was good enough. Good for him.