Don't forget who you are

Cubs 9, Giants 2

What are you really good at? What can you do better than almost everyone you know?

Maybe it's something boring, like taxes. Or maybe it's something exciting, like skiing backwards across moguls with your eyes closed. More likely it's something in between.

But what happens when your best skill becomes your worst? When you can't do that one thing as well as you know you can?

It’s equal parts surprising and disappointing. Not unlike these past few days watching Matt Chapman.

He can field a baseball better than almost every human on this planet. Yet he's made five errors in the last five games, including two on Monday. One of them came on a ball that left the bat at 27 mph. Instead of making the play to end the inning, the Cubs rallied to go up for good.

I'm not here to make anything more of this stretch than what it is.

Chapman plays a spectacular third base. He's also made more errors (six) than almost any other player. It's been hard to see him botch easy plays, and harder to hear repeatedly that "you almost never see that."

We are, in fact, seeing it. And just like anyone else, when your best skill abandons you, it never looks good.

Up next: Justin Verlander (0-2, 4.38 ERA) will pull the slot machine again and hope that Win No. 1 rolls out. He'll face Colin Rea (2-0, 1.46 ERA) later this afternoon at 4:40 pm.