NEWSLETTER
Come on. It wouldn’t be a Hector Neris save opportunity if the tying run didn’t reach base. You didn’t expect otherwise, did you?
In a game that could’ve slipped away a couple times, the Cubs actually showed some life and pulled it out late. I was impressed more than once. Wasn’t sure that could still happen.
The Cubs got out to an early lead thanks to a Michael Busch dinger, but then allowed the Brewers to tie it up with an absolute clown shoes of a half-inning.
Justin Steele was APPROPRIATELY fired up:
Wake up? They actually did!
The Cubs scored a run immediately after, and although that lead also slipped away, the Cubs held it from there. Then, right after the Cubs forced the Brewers into their own embarrassing moment (of the inning and threat-ending TOOTBLAN variety in the bottom of the 7th), Ian Happ sent one out to give the Cubs a two-run lead. Then they played great defense in the 8th, and Hector Neris found a way to wriggle out of the 9th (a couple strikeouts to finish it off with the tying run on base).
Ian Happ has to be the Ankin Law “Making It Personal” Player of the Game because his blast won it, but Michael Busch had a great day at the plate and in the field, and I loved the emotion from Luke Little and Porter Hodge.
I’m just glad the Cubs woke up.
