The Chicago Cubs have gotten themselves into position to make some noise in October. But they have to prove they can close it out in September.
Cubs center fielder Mike Tauchman celebrates after scoring in the eighth inning on Aug. 30, 2023, at Wrigley Field.
On a cool and crisp Wednesday afternoon at Wrigley Field, the Cubs overcame a lack of hitting and two unforced errors to eke out a 3-2 win against the Milwaukee Brewers, their 17th victory in their last 23 one-run games.That bodes well for the postseason — if the Cubs make it — because every game potentially can be won or lost on one play.
Bellinger’s game-winning infield hit that deflected off the right ankle of reliever Joel Payamps in the eighth inning was the kind of luck the Cubs have been running into of late. Instead, everyone went home happy, and three hits were all the Cubs needed to pull out the series win.In the first two months of the season the Cubs were 2-10 in one-run games. Who knows what might have happened had a couple of bounces gone their way in some of those losses?Veteran Kyle Hendricks, who allowed one unearned run in six innings Wednesday, knows what it’s like to compete in a pennant race against the Brewers in a ballpark overflowing with history.
The Brewers’ two aces, Corbin Burnes and Brandon Woodruff, held the Cubs to three runs on 11 hits over a combined 13 innings the last two days, but Justin Steele and Hendricks one-upped them. If the Cubs do make the postseason and meet the Brewers in the wild-card round, we’re likely to see those four starters again, perhaps in the same matchups.
Would they be better off losing a game or two and falling to No. 6 to play the Brewers in Milwaukee in the first round instead of traveling to Philadelphia to take on the streaking Phillies? We all know how much Cubs fans like to travel up I-94 to visit the ballpark they call Wrigley North and what lengths the Brewers go to to keep tickets out of their hands.Manager David Ross watches the Cubs-Brewers game from the dugout Wednesday at Wrigley Field.
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