For a single night in Los Angeles, the Cubs looked like the team overloaded with stars. The biggest offensive performances came🐷 from guys wearing Cubbie blue, not Dodger blue, and indeed two of them were pretty much tossed as🤪ide by the latter. It was fun to see what that could look like, even if only for a night.
Cody Bellinger and Michae💞l Busch were huge at the plate right from the jump (sharing honors), though every single starter had at leꦑast one hit in the win.
Cubs’ pitchers managed to navigate traffic well enough to hold the Dodgers down. Sure, the Ohtani-Betts-Freeman trio ultimately got theirs – they pretty much always will – but the rest of the lineup went 5 for 25 with no walks and no extra-base hits. That’s the recipe.
Kyle Hendricks gave the Cubs four competitive innings, which is is not ideal, but also gave them a chance. Kudos to the bullpen for covering the rest of the game, with a special shout to Keegan Thompson who has maybe settle🗹d right back into that highly valuable bridge role.
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