Enhanced Box Score: Cubs 6, Brewers 3 – May 28, 2024 – Bleacher Nation

THANK. GOD.

I gotta tell you, friends, I did NOT have it in me to watch the Brewers walk it off tonight. I really didn’t. Not after five straight losses. Not after Ben Brown was removed from the game after SEVEN no-hit innings. Not after the Cubs squandered multiple bases loaded opportunities tonight. Not after a Cubs closer blew another save.

Fortunately, I didn’t have to.

After a night (series? week? month?) of barely scoring any runs at all, the Cubs absolutely poured it on in the 10th, putting up a 5-spot and icing the game before the Brewers even took a swing in the bottom half of the inning (of course, they needed almost all of those runs, as the Brewers wound up scoring a couple more before the final out was recorded … because of course).

That 10th inning started (and the first run scored) on some extremely heads up base running by Luis Vázquez, who was the ghost runner on second base. Mike Tauchman lined one off the Brewers pitcher, who just completely gave up on the play as he was in clear pain and left the field immediately. But it continued on Seiya Suzuki’s blooper, kept going on Cody Bellinger’s RBI single, and was eventually broken wide open on Ian Happ’s 2 RBI double.

Speaking of Happ, he not only blew the game open with that double, but he also arguably saved the entire game with yet another outfield assist at second base to end the threat in the 9th. Huge finish to the game from him, after some frustrating at-bats/strikeouts earlier.

There were actually a TON of key performances in this game, from Michael Busch’s homer, to Cody Bellinger’s home run robbery, to Mark Leiter Jr.’s big inning-ending strikeout, to Luis Vazquez’s heads up base-running, to Mike Tauchman’s liner and hard-nosed hustle, to Ian Happ’s heroics on both sides.

But only one man can be the Ankin Law “Making It Personal” Player of the Game, and you already know who that is … BIG BEN MF BROWN.

We’ll talk about his 7.0 no-hit innings (and the decision to pull him) tomorrow. For tonight, just exhale and enjoy the win. the Cubs needed this one. Desperately. The losing streak is over and tomorrow is Shota Imanaga Day.

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