With Dramatic Birthday Loss Cubs Reduce Their Magic Number To 87

• AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast
• Fans outside Wrigley Field yesterday before the inevitable

As they say at Wrigley Field, you lose some, you lose some. But yesterday’s collapse really took the cake.

But with yesterday’s failure the Cubs are 7-13, which keeps them on pace to sink to the occasion. The loss reduced their magic number to 87. Any combination of blown leads, walk-off losses, nail-biters, cliff-hangers, heartbreakers, and garden-variety defeats totalling 100 will make this a real “Party of the Century”, as the Cubs owners call it.