The Cubs need to play near-flawless baseball to win. Once again Sunday, a couple of mistakes led to a defeat.

The Cubs played their worst game of the year Saturday night. That's about all you need to know; if you dare, the details are inside.

As has been typical of this year, the Cubs went behind early, then got back in the game. But the story of this one is some wacky baserunning.

Darwin Barney's sinking liner could have won the game for the Cubs. It didn't. You've heard this one before.

That was really awful. (Usually there are more words here, but I really don't have any.)

Dioner Navarro hit a pinch-homer for the second straight game, but it wasn't enough to help the Cubs overcome a deficit.

Anthony Rizzo sliced a two-run homer to the opposite field into a very heavy drizzle Thursday. That's good. It wasn't enough and the Cubs lost.

The Cubs did the right thing, with showers and storms ready to overtake the Chicago area, by postponing Wednesday night's game.

Stop me if you've heard this one before -- the Cubs got hits and defense and pitching when they needed them. (You probably haven't stopped me yet.)

Jack Brickhouse used to call rallies like the Cubs' ninth inning Monday "a day late and a dollar short." That was in the 1960s, when Cubs teams were as bad as this year's might be.