I really try to keep my emotions out of these recaps but damn this one is difficult to contain because well spoiler alert, CUBS WIN, CUBS WIN!!! Now they’ve one on opening day in Anahiem and won 3 out of 4 in Arizona but there’s nothing like a win for the Cubs at Wrigley. Now I wasn’t there but the excitement deep within my gut was still there watching them get their first win at home today!
So let’s go! John Lester opens up the season at home with a single to leadoff man Zack Cozart who would advance to third on a Joey Votto single to left field. He would then score the first run on a ground out by Brandon Phillips. He would make it through the second but would give up a home run to Billy Hamilton putting the Reds up 2-0. Brandon Phillips would lead off in the fourth with a single and would reach 2 on Devin Mesoraco’s ground out that was scored 1-6-3, which means Lester touched it, Addison Russell picked it up and threw it to Anthony Rizzo. Phillips would then steal third and score on Brandon Finnegans single to center. But that would be all she wrote for the Reds as Lester would allow one base runner in the fifth and sixth. Trevor Cahill would start the seventh off with a double to Adam Duvall but would stop him from advancing and would close out the inning.
Reds starter Brandon Finnegan would coast through six only allowing base runners on walks with out any real damage until the seventh, which he would get through two but would give up a line drive single to center by David Ross. After a visit to the mound, he would walk Matt Szczur and get pulled for Caleb Cotham, only to walk Fowler and get replaced himself by Chicago area native Tony Cingrani. Jason Heyward would send a line drive to right scoring Ross & Szczur. He would get out of the inning to come back in the eighth. The top of the eighth would see former Yankee Adam Warren come into the game giving up a single to Joey Votto but finishing the inning out strong.
Cingrani would get Rizzo to ground out but would walk Zobrist then hit Soler. Jumbo Diaz would come into the game and all but almost immediately give up a two-run home run to left center, putting the Cubs up 5-3. Ross would ground out and the guy that would take Starlin Castro’s crowd exciting, player clapping, mascot dancing walk up music, Munenori Kawasaki would line out to right.
But the excitement doesn’t stop there!!! Hector Rondon would come into the ninth getting Jay Bruce, Adam Duvall & Scott Schebler to not only strikeout but would recieve three backwards K’s to get his second save of the season, giving Adam Warren his first win in front of 40,882 people all singing “Go Cubs Go, Go Cubs Go, Hey Chicago, Whattaya Say, The Cubs Are Gonna Win Today!”
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