However, the San Francisco Giants helped the Cubs clinch their division when the Giants defeated the Cubs’ division rivals, the St. Louis Cardinals, by a score of 6-2.
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Milwaukee Brewers center fielder Keon Broxton suffered an apparent right wrist fracture during the third inning of Friday’s game with the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. The sell-out crowd then started to sing the Go Cubs Go song to celebrate the club’s division title, wrapped up last night when the Cardinals lost. Gag.
The Philadelphia Phillies secured a 4-3 win over the Miami Marlins, with pinch-hitter Jimmy Paredes singling home the winning run with one out in the 13th, the Chicago White Sox defeated the Kansas City Royals 7-4 and the Boston Red Sox saw off the New York Yankees by the same scoreline. Reliever Tyler Thornburg faced the top of the Cubs’ order and got the final four outs for his 10th save. Andrew Susac led off the inning with a single, and while Lackey induced consecutive groundballs to get the first two outs of the inning, he grooved a two-seamer to Scooter Gennett, who parked the ball in the right-field bleachers (-.318). The Cubs had to wait until September 25 to clinch their 2015 postseason spot, and that also was via a loss by another contender.
“I went with Jameson”, he said. “I’m just going to watch the game and enjoy it”. 23-year old Robert Gsellman has three starts (plus an appearance where he came in during the first inning) with an ERA of 3.08 and an ERA+ of 132.
Jorge Soler hit a two-run homer for the Cubs. Broxton suffered the injury colliding with the wall in left-center in the third inning.
The Brewers also lost two outfielders to injuries. The 30-year-old has just two quality starts over his last six outings, including a rocky start against Milwaukee on August 18 in which he earned the win despite allowing five runs in 5 2/3 frames.
A day later, they put a stylish finish on their summer-long dominance of the Central.
“It’s very disappointing”, Broxton said. If the Cardinals don’t at least split the four-game series, their done, although their schedule isn’t too hard in the final two weeks (Rockies, Cubs, Reds and Pirates).
It was another rough day in a long season.
The Chicago Cubs season is not quite over, there are still a couple of weeks of baseball left.
Collectively, these nine teams, more or less the best teams of the three-division era, went 13-7 in postseason series. Santiago (12-8) shut out the Tigers on four hits through five innings before James McCann’s two-out RBI double in the sixth provided Detroit’s run.
“So, yeah, look, those are good conversations to have, because it means we’re getting ready to play a playoff series”.
“Today was one of those days were he had both (pitches) working and he wasn’t missing over the middle and he was even throwing some curveballs and changeups to keep you off of everything”, Moss said.
Pinch hitter Addison Russell forced the 4-4 tie by beating out an infield hit that scored Coghlan.
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Most of Chicago’s regulars were out of the lineup for the Friday afternoon start, and Maddon said he planned to wait until Saturday for more in-depth discussions with his coaching staff about their plans for the rest of the regular season.
