It was a beautiful day for Game 1 of the wild-card series on Tuesday afternoon at Wrigley Field. The sun was out, the weather was perfect, the field was in fine condition and the local media was on hand to provide their takes.

“Believe me, we’ve spent way too much time trying to think about that question,” president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer said when asked what went wrong in his end-of-season news conference Tuesday. “Ultimately, we collectively fell into a slump in May and June that we couldn’t get out of.