What You Need to Know: Jon Lester reprised Kyle Hendricks’s great performance from Friday night, and Willson Contreras and Anthony Rizzo added home runs to put the Cubs ahead early. A hung curveball and assist from the wind resulted in a five-spot for the Nationals in the eighth, however, and Washington evened the series at […]
Day: October 7, 2017
Second City October: NLDS Game Two, Cubs (1-0) at Nationals (0-1)
The Cubs and Kyle Hendricks stole Game One from a dominant Stephen Strasburg, which makes winning Game Two a bit less desperate. Strictly speaking, the Cubs already got their one required win in Washington, and this is not a must-win game. That’s a boring way of thinking, though, and today the Cubs are in position […]