Joe Maddon recently helped cost the Cubs a game by not attempting to squeeze in a squeeze situation, and did the same thing in today’s game. The Cubs and Brewers were tied 1-1 in the top of the 8th inning, and the Cubs had a man on third with one out. The Cubs had one run the entire game (on a homerun) and only 5 hits. Their odds of scoring were better with an attempted squeeze, since they weren’t hitting or scoring. The Cubs didn’t squeeze and didn’t score. When a team doesn’t score and strands a runner on third with less than 2 outs, the momentum change increases the chance of the other team scoring their next at-bat, and the Brewers did score to take a 2-1 lead into the 9th inning. The Cubs did rally in the 9th to win, thanks to help from the Brewers’ bad fielding, but Maddon’s failure to squeeze could have cost the Cubs the game.