The Cubs head to Wrigley Field North or as The Brewers would call it, Miller Park. It actually is a great park to visit. Carlos Zambrabo threw his no-hitter there against the Astros.
The Cubs would be shut down perfectly through 4 by Brewers pitcher Chase Anderson. Kyle Hendricks on the other hand, would have a perfect 1st, but walks leadoff Jonathan Lucroy to start off the second but gets the next three out. He gets Braun to ground out to lead off the fourth but gives up a monster home run to Lucroy putting the Brew Crew up by 1.
The Cubs would continue to be shut down until afte the first batter in the top of the sixth, when Miguel Montero walks and steals second but that would be all the action. In the bottom half Kyle would set up Ryan Braun with two men on he smacks a single to right field adding another run to the Brewers scoreboard. He would get Lucroy to pop out to Montero but Chris Carter would send a line drive to right center for a double driving both men in. This would prompt Maddon to bring in Trevor Cahill to strike out the last two batters to end the inning. He would come back for a perfect seventh.
Chase Anderson would give up his first hit of the game a double to leadoff man Ben Zobrist but he’d shut them down again. Cahill comes back for the bottom half and it’s perfect again. Anderson would come back out to finish the game he started getting the first two outs. Jason Heyward on an 0-2 count gets a hold of one sending it to right center for his first home run of the season. On a 1-0 count Kris Bryant would get a hold of one and send it to left field for his 7th homer of the season. Jeremy Jeffres would come into the game with a save opportunity with two outs Rizzo comes to the plate looking to make it 3 home runs in a row but he goes down swinging. Cubs lose 4-2.
I know it’s another loss but Anderson was on tonight and there was absolutely nothing to be done about it. The silver lining of course was Cahill’s performance. Entering the game in the bottom half of the sixth pitching lights out baseball for 2 2/3 innings could have asked for more. Let’s get them tomorrow!
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