MD, being a numbers guy, I have to disagree with that! Being up by 25 points midway thru the 3rd quarter of a football game is far worse. I looked at my ESPN app at that time, and Atlanta was a 99.2% favorite to win. While it is a "choke" to lose a 3-1 lead, the odds are much higher that the team ahead will lose. There are 3 games left and, even if you say the team ahead has a 60% chance to win each game (which is on the high side for baseball), the odds of losing all 3 are 40% x 40% x 40% which equals 6.4%. I would definitely argue that in the case of the Indians, where the odds are so much predicated on the pitching, that a depleted started pitching staff (Carrasco out, Salazar all but out, and Bauer with his drone-damaged hand) is what did in the Indians. And lets face it, the Cubs had a stronger hitting lineup. At best, their odds of winning each of those games was closer to 50% which equates to a 12.5% chance to lose all 3 ... way bigger than 0.8%. I read that there has only ever been 4 times in NFL history where a team came back from a 25 point second half deficit, and there are over 250 games per year in the NFL these days.