It was. The schedule literally ended up designed to favor the Cubs in that 5 game series. It's disappointing to lose it, no doubt, but it's actually not bad outscoring the Cubs on the road over the course of the series and taking 2 of 5 from them given the absence of Chourio (and Hoskins I suppose?) and the way the staff had to be used given this brutal stretch of 19 games in 18 days.