Brenden Schaeffer discusses the Cardinals walk-off loss to the Cubs from Thursday night at Wrigley as Ryan Helsley picked a bad day to have a bad day.

Instead of riding into the rest of the weekend on a nice winning streak, the Cardinals were knocked down a peg by the rival Cubs who scored three in the ninth to come back from a multi-run deficit.

Down to their final strike, the Cubbies found a way.

Rather than set the tone for the weekend like we thought the Cardinals were doing with their right-handed-heavy start to the batting order (which ended up largely working out for Oli Marmol from those players performance in the game), we see the Cardinals have a real tough one slip away from their grasp.

We spend some time talking about who to blame and why the suggestions of Oli Marmol letting anyone other than Helsley ride the storm out in the ninth are just foolish.

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