In case you were wondering, only one team in the history of baseball has dropped the first two games of a best-of-five series AT HOME and come back to win the series — Joe Torre’s 2001 Yankees, who did it against Oakland. Still, the Cubs aren’t dead yet. But they are at least on life support. And they are playing like a team that BELIEVES it is cursed. The Dodgers, meanwhile, continue to play loose and brash and to take advantage of whatever opportunities the Cubs give them — and the Cubs gave them a bunch of them tonight, committing four errors that led to five unearned runs. … The legion of Japanese reporters covering this series probably won’t get to see Kosuke Fukudome face Hiroki Kuroda in Game 3 on Saturday night. This Lou Piniella after the game when he was asked about Fukudome, who is 0 for 8 with four strikeouts in the first two games: “From now on, I don’t want to hear about Fukudome anymore as far as whether he is going to play or not. I’m going to play (Mike) Fontenot and Reed Johnson or somebody else, and that’s the end of the story. The kid is struggling, and there is no sense sending him out there anymore.”
