Game two features 1-0 Jason Hammel vs Jamie Garcia who is also 1-0. Jamie would open the game with a walk to Dexter Fowler who would be forced out on a ground ball to Ruben Tejada. He would the. Give up a single to Kris Bryant but would get out of the inning. Hammel would start with a 1-2-3 inning but would give up a lead off single to Matt Adams to start the second and one to Randal Grichuk. Adams would be caught stealing third with Yadier Molina at bat. He would end up launching what would appear to be a home run to Soler, who would run into the wall missing the catch, giving Molina a triple, scoring Grichuk. Both men would have easy third innings.
Top of the fourth, Garcia would load the bases, walking Soler and giving singles to Ben Zobrist and Miguel Montero. With two outs and bases loaded, Hammel would get to the plate, smacking a ground ball in between short and third, scoring two runs but he’d get Jason Heyward out on a called third strike. Seung Hwan Oh would come into the sixth getting a 1-2-3 inning. Hammel would have a perfect bottom half of the sixth.
Kevin Siegrist would come into the seventh hitting Javier Baez but would be overturned after managers review. He would then strike out. Dexter Fowler would double but both Heyward and Kris Bryant would fly out. Adam Warren would come into the botaztom half of the seventh
Former Red, Jonathan Broxton would get into a littl trouble but would get out of the inning. Travis Wood would give up a lead off single in the bottom of the eighth and that would be all she wrote and Pedro Strop would face Jeremy Hazelbaker and the next two batters to get out of the eighth.
#67 Matt Bowman would come into the top of the ninth and get the Cubbies out 1-2-3. Hector Rondon would come into the bottom of the ninth for his possible to third save of the season. He would give up a lead off single to Yadier Molina and would get th next two batters to fly out and then get a huge strikeout to close out the series and make this a 1-1 series.
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