Cubs Beat Mets 9-6 as Edward Cabrera Exits Injured and Pete Crow-Armstrong Stays Hot
Been waiting to play some baseball since Saturday. The Cubs had quite a game in the opener of a four-game series with the Mets at Citi Field.
The Cubs won the game 9-6 (although the game wasn’t actually that close), but now seem to have lost starting Edward Cabrera for a long length of time with a leg injury sustained covering first base.
That I will get to, but let’s start at the beginning.
The Cubs went quietly in the first but scored five in the second.Suzuki walked, Happ singled and Shaw was hit by a pitch. No outs, bases loaded. Now I know what you are thinking here. “How will they fail to score in this soul-crushing yet hilarious fashion?
Friends, the Cubs accomplished much better than that in this inning. Nico Hoerner struck out, and Carson Kelly walked with the bases loaded to make it 1-0.
Then came Pete Crow-Armstrong. Boom! It’s 5-0.
If you’re keeping track, that’s five runs in a span of seven pitches. Efficient!
For PCA that was his 17th home run of the year, sixth in his past eight games and 10th in June (eight games remaining).
Edward Cabrera had a difficult second inning, throwing 40 (!) pitches and giving up two of the five runs to the Mets. It could’ve been worse, as the Mets had the bases loaded with two out and Bo Bichette at the dish. Cabrera fanned Bichette to end the inning.
The Cubs grabbed those two runs right back in the fourth. Kelly walked and Swanson blasted his tenth home run of the season
Swanson is showing signs of breaking out of his horrid slump. Last four games:.429/.500/1.000 (6-for-14) with two doubles, two homers — and NO strikeouts. Hopefully this will persist.
It was still 7-2 Cubs going into the bottom of the fifth. Cabrera clearly was going to be lifted after five innings having thrown more than 90 pitchesThis happened with two outs and two on
That was Cabrera’s 99th pitch of the game. He reached out and took Nico’s toss and this is what happened:
I think we all knew that about the pitching staff. That injury looked fairly nasty — I’d guess this will put Cabrera out at least a month, maybe more. So when Matthew Boyd returns to the rotation, Colin Rea will have to step up again. And this makes Jed Hoyer’s search to find a starter by trade all the more crucial.
But that’s a story for another day. Back to the game: The Mets scored a run off Phil Maton in the seventh, but the Cubs added two more in the eighth. Matt Shaw singled with one out, but was picked off (after review). Then Hoerner doubled and a Kelly double made it 8-3.
Swanson followed with his second extra-base hit of the game, a double that pushed it to 9-3
In a six-run game in the ninth, Craig Counsell went to newcomer Jaylen Murray and it didn’t go well. Murray gave up three runs in 26 pitches, including a two-run home run by Bichette.Mark Vientos hit out to end the game at last
Before I finish with this one, I wanted to mention an unusual play with PCA. He opened the top of the seventh with a walk.
When Michael Busch was walking he went to second on the next one out.Then this happened
The call is not wrong here. Even on a walk with a runner, the runner does not automatically get second base. He’s gotta hold the base. It would seem the ruling was that PCA was tagged when he was not in communication with second. The problem is I don’t really see that in the clip.
You may recall an almost identical play 19 years ago with Ronny Cedeno. If not, scroll until 3:29:25. This video should be cued to the proper place:
That was a far bigger play in the circumstances. The Cubs trailed the Cardinals 2-1 in the ninth inning. Cedeno came off the base clearly and was tagged out. Instead, the Cubs had the tying run in scoring position with one out and lost the game 2-1 with one on and two out. It didn’t really change anything in the game with the Cubs up by five at the time of the play Tuesday night in New York. The call Tuesday was probably right, albeit not as unambiguous as the one in 2007.
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