Craig Counsell’s stump speech is well known to the media and anyone who has tuned into his news conferences on TV.

Forget everything you’ve known about baseball since you were born, the Chicago Cubs manager lectures, and get it into your mind that all pitchers are simply out-getters, no matter their titles.

“Roles are out the window, so get your head off of roles, is what I would say,” Counsell said on the final weekend of the regular season. “Those words are irrelevant.”

Counsell practices what he preaches, and he put his “OGs” to the test Tuesday in the Cubs’ 3-1 win over the San Diego Padres in Game 1 of the National League wild-card series at Wrigley Field.

Starter Matthew Boyd was needed for only 13 outs. Closer Daniel Palencia came in for five outs in the fifth and sixth, and

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