There was 1 out, 1st and 3rd. Then DeRo booted an easy double play that would have ended the inning, allowing a run to score, 1-0 LA, runners at 1st and 2nd.

Then Lee booted a ground ball (granted, a trickier double play) that ALSO would have ended the inning, bases are now loaded.

Statistically, both of those errors caused the Cubs Win expectancy to drop by 6%.

Then a Z strikeout, 2 outs, bases still loaded.

Then, of all things, a 2-out suicide squeeze that catches the Cubs completely off guard. Bases STILL loaded, another run scores. 2-0 LA.

Then the Russell Martin bomb, 5-0 LA, and the rout was on.

I know that the DeRosa boot was the worst error in the inning, but the Cubs get out relatively unscathed if Lee doesn’t make HIS error, or if the team isn’t caught napping on Furcal’s 2-out bunt.

What I’m getting at is that it’s not fair to say that the “floodgates opened” on DeRo’s error when that only made it 1-0, an error was committed on a doubleplay ball by the very next batter, and the team proceeded to totally botch bunt coverage three batters later. Even if Lee can’t turn that DP, the inning ends 1-0 if he gets just one out. The floodgates didn’t open until 4 batters later, at which point 2 equally compelling additional defensive lapses had happened.

It was generally a knuckleheaded inning, and there is lots and lots of blame to go around, (primarily shared by DeRo and Lee), but also by the team getting caught flat-footed on an unexpected 2-out bunt.