NEWSLETTER
WHAT A FREAKING GAME!!! HOW DO YOU TOP YESTERDAY’S WIN?!?! LIKE THAT!
The Cubs just kept battling back again and again, and finally, Willson Contreras – who’d given them their first lead of the day – hit the walk-off single in the 11th:
Before that, it was Patrick Wisdom with a game-tying double (he later left with an apparent hand injury):
Christian Yelich flubbed to let the Cubs tie it in the 10th:
Nick Madrigal played hero in the bottom of the 9th to send the game to extras in the first place:
I’m sweating. That was so freaking crazy.
Some other stuff to note …
Marcus Stroman was brilliant all day. One of his best performances with the Cubs. He made it as far as two outs in the 8th, and after a little mound conference, it was clear that Christian Yelich was going to be his final batter. Unfortunately, Yelich singled in the rain, and Stroman’s day was over.
… and then Rowan Wick grooved a two-run homer and the Cubs’ lead with it.
Wick has the pitches, but his rough outings – all in high leverage – have been far too frequent this year. It’s a bummer, because he was clearly being given a chance to lock in a back-end role for next year, if not the presumptive closer’s job. He still might get there and all that, but man, that was a bummer of an outing.
Both of Marcus Stroman’s earned runs today were funky, by the way. There was that one – all he gave up was a single – and then the other came on one of those “you can’t assume the double-play” type plays in the first inning, where it should’ve been two, and no run scored.
Nico Hoerner put on a show defensively, and these are just two of his many more nice plays today:
Cubs win another crazy one:
