NEW YORK – Four years in the past, Cubs supervisor Joe Maddon resorted to hiring a magician on the primary day of a sequence in New York to distract and shake up a slumping group – and what adopted was a Cubs sweep of the Mets. On Tuesday evening a Cubs group at an much more dire crossroads stumbled into the identical place and skilled a second that appeared extra mystical and paranormal than something Simon the Magician might pull out of a hat. What the circumstances of a 5-2 Cubs victory may imply within the bigger image, “We’re going to find out tomorrow,” mentioned Maddon, referring to Noah Syndergaard and Jacob deGrom beginning for