MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. -- Michael Broadway pulled up his blue baseball socks, the kind with no heel and no toe. He admired the way they looped under his instep, revealing the half-moons of the white ...

Through the first seven innings, the Cubs looked as helpless as the high stirrup socks that pitcher Jake Arrieta wore. “Socks were awful,” Arrieta said of his faux stirrups. “The worst socks ...