Chicago Sports Guru Ticker<\/title>\n<style>\n * { box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; padding: 0; }\n body { background: transparent; }\n\n .ticker-wrap {\n width: 100%;\n background: #0a1628;\n border-top: 2px solid #c8102e;\n border-bottom: 2px solid #c8102e;\n overflow: hidden;\n position: relative;\n height: 40px;\n font-family: 'Arial Narrow', Arial, sans-serif;\n }\n\n .ticker-label {\n position: absolute;\n left: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\n background: #c8102e;\n color: #fff;\n font-size: 10px;\n font-weight: bold;\n letter-spacing: 1px;\n text-transform: uppercase;\n padding: 0 12px;\n display: flex;\n align-items: center;\n white-space: nowrap;\n z-index: 10;\n }\n\n .ticker-track {\n height: 40px;\n overflow: hidden;\n padding-left: 115px;\n }\n\n .ticker-inner {\n display: inline-flex;\n align-items: center;\n height: 40px;\n white-space: nowrap;\n animation: scroll 50s linear infinite;\n }\n\n .ticker-inner:hover { animation-play-state: paused; }\n\n @keyframes scroll {\n 0% { transform: translateX(0); }\n 100% { transform: translateX(-50%); }\n }\n\n .game {\n display: inline-flex;\n align-items: center;\n gap: 8px;\n padding: 0 22px;\n border-right: 1px solid #1e3a5f;\n height: 40px;\n font-size: 12px;\n }\n\n .badge {\n font-size: 9px;\n font-weight: bold;\n padding: 2px 5px;\n border-radius: 3px;\n text-transform: uppercase;\n letter-spacing: 0.5px;\n white-space: nowrap;\n }\n .nfl { background: #C83803; color: #fff; }\n .mlb { background: #003087; color: #fff; }\n .nba { background: #ce1141; color: #fff; }\n .nhl { background: #cf0a2c; color: #fff; }\n .wnba { background: #e87722; color: #fff; }\n .mls { background: #003087; color: #fff; }\n .nwsl { background: #0a5c36; color: #fff; }\n\n .teams { color: #e5e7eb; font-size: 12px; }\n .teams strong { color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; }\n .score { color: #C83803; font-weight: bold; font-size: 13px; }\n\n .live { color: #ef4444; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; animation: blink 1.2s infinite; }\n .final { color: #6b7280; font-size: 10px; }\n .upcoming { color: #87ceeb; font-size: 10px; }\n\n @keyframes blink {\n 0%,100% { opacity: 1; }\n 50% { opacity: 0.3; }\n }\n\n .no-games { color: #6b7280; font-size: 11px; padding: 0 20px; }\n .loading { color: #87ceeb; font-size: 11px; padding: 0 20px; animation: blink 1.5s infinite; }\n<\/style>\n<\/head>\n<body>\n\n<div class=\"ticker-wrap\">\n <div class=\"ticker-label\">\u26a1 CHI SCORES<\/div>\n <div class=\"ticker-track\">\n <div class=\"ticker-inner\" id=\"ticker\">\n <span class=\"loading\">Loading Chicago scores...<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<script>\n\/\/ All 8 Chicago teams\n\/\/ teamId matches ESPN's team abbreviation name so we avoid numeric ID mismatches\nconst ENDPOINTS = [\n { url: 'https:\/\/site.api.espn.com\/apis\/site\/v2\/sports\/football\/nfl\/scoreboard', abbr: 'CHI', badge: 'NFL', cls: 'nfl', name: 'Bears' },\n { url: 'https:\/\/site.api.espn.com\/apis\/site\/v2\/sports\/baseball\/mlb\/scoreboard', abbr: 'CHC', badge: 'MLB', cls: 'mlb', name: 'Cubs' },\n { url: 'https:\/\/site.api.espn.com\/apis\/site\/v2\/sports\/baseball\/mlb\/scoreboard', abbr: 'CWS', badge: 'MLB', cls: 'mlb', name: 'White Sox' },\n { url: 'https:\/\/site.api.espn.com\/apis\/site\/v2\/sports\/basketball\/nba\/scoreboard', abbr: 'CHI', badge: 'NBA', cls: 'nba', name: 'Bulls' },\n { url: 'https:\/\/site.api.espn.com\/apis\/site\/v2\/sports\/hockey\/nhl\/scoreboard', abbr: 'CHI', badge: 'NHL', cls: 'nhl', name: 'Blackhawks' },\n { url: 'https:\/\/site.api.espn.com\/apis\/site\/v2\/sports\/basketball\/wnba\/scoreboard', abbr: 'CHI', badge: 'WNBA', cls: 'wnba', name: 'Sky' },\n { url: 'https:\/\/site.api.espn.com\/apis\/site\/v2\/sports\/soccer\/usa.1\/scoreboard', abbr: 'CHI', badge: 'MLS', cls: 'mls', name: 'Fire' },\n { url: 'https:\/\/site.api.espn.com\/apis\/site\/v2\/sports\/soccer\/usa.nwsl\/scoreboard', abbr: 'CHI', badge: 'NWSL', cls: 'nwsl', name: 'Stars' },\n];\n\nasync function fetchTeamGame(ep) {\n try {\n const res = await fetch(ep.url);\n const data = await res.json();\n const events = data.events || [];\n\n \/\/ Match by team abbreviation \u2014 avoids numeric ID type mismatch\n const game = events.find(e =>\n e.competitions[0].competitors.some(c =>\n c.team.abbreviation === ep.abbr ||\n (c.team.displayName || '').toLowerCase().includes(ep.name.toLowerCase().split(' ')[0])\n )\n );\n return game ? { game, ...ep } : null;\n } catch(e) { return null; }\n}\n\nfunction formatTime(dateStr) {\n const d = new Date(dateStr);\n return d.toLocaleTimeString('en-US', {\n hour: 'numeric',\n minute: '2-digit',\n timeZone: 'America\/Chicago'\n }) + ' CT';\n}\n\nfunction buildGameHTML({ game, badge, cls, name, abbr }) {\n const comp = game.competitions[0];\n const home = comp.competitors.find(c => c.homeAway === 'home');\n const away = comp.competitors.find(c => c.homeAway === 'away');\n const status = game.status.type.name;\n\n const homeAbbr = home.team.abbreviation;\n const awayAbbr = away.team.abbreviation;\n\n \/\/ Bold the Chicago team name\n const isChiHome = homeAbbr === abbr ||\n (home.team.displayName || '').toLowerCase().includes(name.toLowerCase().split(' ')[0]);\n const homeLabel = isChiHome ? `<strong>${homeAbbr}<\/strong>` : homeAbbr;\n const awayLabel = !isChiHome ? `<strong>${awayAbbr}<\/strong>` : awayAbbr;\n\n const hs = home.score ?? '';\n const as = away.score ?? '';\n\n let scoreHTML = '';\n let statusHTML = '';\n\n if (status === 'STATUS_IN_PROGRESS') {\n const clock = game.status.displayClock || '';\n const period = game.status.period || '';\n if (hs !== '' && as !== '') scoreHTML = `<span class=\"score\">${as}\u2013${hs}<\/span>`;\n statusHTML = `<span class=\"live\">\u25cf LIVE ${period ? period : ''} ${clock}<\/span>`;\n\n } else if (\n status === 'STATUS_FINAL' ||\n status === 'STATUS_FULL_TIME' ||\n status === 'STATUS_FT'\n ) {\n if (hs !== '' && as !== '') scoreHTML = `<span class=\"score\">${as}\u2013${hs}<\/span>`;\n statusHTML = `<span class=\"final\">FINAL<\/span>`;\n\n } else {\n \/\/ Scheduled \u2014 show start time in CT\n statusHTML = `<span class=\"upcoming\">${formatTime(game.date)}<\/span>`;\n }\n\n return `<div class=\"game\">\n <span class=\"badge ${cls}\">${badge}<\/span>\n <span class=\"teams\">${awayLabel} @ ${homeLabel}<\/span>\n ${scoreHTML}\n ${statusHTML}\n <\/div>`;\n}\n\nasync function buildTicker() {\n const ticker = document.getElementById('ticker');\n const results = await Promise.all(ENDPOINTS.map(fetchTeamGame));\n const games = results.filter(Boolean).map(buildGameHTML);\n\n if (games.length === 0) {\n ticker.innerHTML = `\n <span class=\"no-games\">No Chicago games scheduled today \ud83d\udc3b \u2014 Bears \u00b7 Cubs \u00b7 Sox \u00b7 Bulls \u00b7 Hawks \u00b7 Sky \u00b7 Fire \u00b7 Stars<\/span>\n <span class=\"no-games\" style=\"padding-left:60px;\">No Chicago games scheduled today \ud83d\udc3b \u2014 Bears \u00b7 Cubs \u00b7 Sox \u00b7 Bulls \u00b7 Hawks \u00b7 Sky \u00b7 Fire \u00b7 Stars<\/span>`;\n return;\n }\n\n \/\/ Duplicate for seamless infinite scroll loop\n const html = games.join('');\n ticker.innerHTML = html + html;\n}\n\nbuildTicker();\nsetInterval(buildTicker, 60000); \/\/ Refresh every 60 seconds for live updates\n<\/script>\n\n<\/body>\n<\/html>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8c03064 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"8c03064\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{"background_background":"classic"}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b1f37fd e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"b1f37fd\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-54d6388 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"54d6388\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/chicagosportsguru.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/caleb-williams-1024x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-73\" alt=\"Chicago Bears caleb Williams\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chicagosportsguru.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/caleb-williams-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chicagosportsguru.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/caleb-williams-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chicagosportsguru.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/caleb-williams-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/chicagosportsguru.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/caleb-williams-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chicagosportsguru.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/caleb-williams-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/chicagosportsguru.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/caleb-williams.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-14e304a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"14e304a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\u26a1FEATURED<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9c7b0c3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"9c7b0c3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Chicago Sports Guru - We talk sports like you talk sports<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bae785e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bae785e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>A site made for Chicago sports fans by Chicago sports fans. 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LOUIS ALIVE**<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Well, we said goodbye to Busch Stadium the right way today. Cubs 4, Cardinals 2, in ten innings, and honestly? After that gut-punch walk-off loss on Wednesday, this is exactly the response a first-place club is supposed to have.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Javier Assad got the ball for the finale and battled \u2014 he punched out Jordan Walker to open the game, but the Cards scratched a run across in the 2nd when Bryan Torres slapped an RBI single. Cardinals up 1-0, and for a minute it felt like more of the same road-trip misery.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Then Alex Bregman did what Alex Bregman does \u2014 scored from third on a fly ball and a Cardinals error to tie it in the top of the 4th, 1-1. Andre Pallante and the Cubs bullpen traded zeroes for a while, Michael Conforto flashed the arm in the outfield, Masyn Winn made a diving play that should've been the play of the game \u2014 and then Michael Busch delivered the go-ahead single in the 7th to make it 2-1 Cubs.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Naturally, because this is the Cardinals and this is 2026 and nothing comes easy against St. Louis, JJ Wetherholt tied it right back up with a solo shot off Caleb Thielbar in the bottom of the 7th. 2-2. Here we go again, right?<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Not today. In the top of the 10th, Bregman doubled home the ghost runner to put Chicago up 3-2, and Ian Happ followed with another RBI to make it 4-2. This time the bullpen held. This time the Cubs walked out of St. Louis with the series and their dignity intact after Wednesday's Herrera walk-off nightmare.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Split the difference on this four-game set, take the finale in extras, and get on a plane knowing the Yankees are coming to the Friendly Confines. That's a good week even with the Wednesday scar tissue.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>---<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>**\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f UP NEXT: YANKEES INVADE WRIGLEY (July 31 \u2013 Aug 2)**<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Interleague play doesn't get much juicier than this. The Bronx Bombers roll into Clark and Addison for a three-game set \u2014 Friday 1:20 CT, Saturday 7:15 CT on FOX, Sunday 1:20 CT \u2014 and this is a genuine measuring-stick series for a Cubs club trying to prove it belongs with the AL's best.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>The Yankees bring the kind of thump that can turn a Wrigley day game with the wind blowing out into a track meet \u2014 this lineup doesn't need much help finding the bleachers. For the Cubs, it's about getting length from the rotation and not turning this into a bullpen war of attrition three days after they already taxed that unit in St. Louis.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Storylines to watch: does PCA keep hunting mistakes the way he's been hunting them all series? Does Bregman's hot stretch carry into the series that Wrigley Field faithful will actually pack the building for? And can the Cubs' pen \u2014 gassed after four games with the Cards \u2014 hold up against a lineup that doesn't miss many mistakes?<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Wind at our backs, ivy's green, and the Yankee<a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/115788078608424\">#GoCubsGo<\/a>k<a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/151270145036897\">#Cubs<\/a>n<a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/231258370332508\">#chicago<\/a>ouse. 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blame you, but you missed a gut-punch. Pete Crow-Armstrong did what PCA does \u2014 plated a run in the top of the 10th to give Chicago a 2-0 lead and looked like the hero of the night. Then Trent Thornton walked out for the bottom half, and it all came apart. Jordan Walker came around to score, and Iv\u00e1n Herrera \u2014 who's quietly been a Cubs killer all series \u2014 ripped a walk-off double to end it. Ballgame. Heartbreak. Same old song against these guys sometimes, even when Chicago is the better team on paper.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>And let's be real: this loss says less about the Cubs' offense (which has been an absolute machine \u2014 12+ hits in four straight games heading in) and more about a bullpen question that isn't going away on its own. Jacob Webb, Caleb Thielbar, then Thornton in extras \u2014 that's the depth chart thinning out fast. With Hunter Harvey and Daniel Palencia banged up and the trade deadline bearing down, Jed Hoyer doesn't just need a starter. He needs an arm for the eighth and ninth that doesn't make me hold my breath every time the phone rings to the bullpen.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Silver lining: the Cubs still take this series, 2-1, and still sit second in the NL Central with a real hold on that first wild card spot. One extra-inning gut-punch in St. Louis doesn't erase a hot stretch \u2014 Chicago's been outscoring opponents by 34 runs over their last 10.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>**Today's finale, 1:15pm CT at Busch:** Javier Assad (6-1, 3.86 ERA) gets the ball for the Cubs instead of the originally-planned Shota Imanaga \u2014 word is it's just extra rest for Shota with the Yankees looming, not an injury concern, and it keeps Assad on his normal turn. He's been quietly excellent all year. Cardinals counter with Andre Pallante (11-6, 3.77 ERA), who's had a strong season of his own, so this isn't a get-right game against a soft matchup \u2014 St. Louis is sending out a legit arm.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Vegas has the Cardinals as slight favorites at home, but I don't care. This team hasn't blinked all month. Time to go into Busch, take the series win, and remind<a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/115788078608424\">#GoCubsGo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/151270145036897\">#Cubs<\/a>n<a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/231258370332508\">#chicago<\/a>9;s actually built for October.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Let's finish this thing. 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LET THAT SINK IN.** \u26be\ud83d\udda4\ud83e\udd0d<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Twelve innings. Three hours and change of will-they-won't-they baseball, and when the dust settled at Rate Field tonight, it was your Chicago White Sox standing tall, 6-5, over the New York Yankees. On a Wednesday night, in front of our people.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>This one wasn't pretty early. Davis Martin battled through six, giving up four earned on 106 pitches \u2014 grinding, not dominant, but he kept us in it against a Yankees lineup that can turn a mistake into a souvenir in half a second. On the other side, Cam Schlittler was cruising, six-plus innings, eight strikeouts, and for a good stretch it looked like we were headed for another one of those nights where we play good enough to lose.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>But this team has shown you something lately \u2014 it doesn't quit. Munetaka Murakami got hold of one for his 22nd homer of the year, because of course he did, that kid's swing looks like it belongs on the South Side. And when it mattered late, Sam Antonacci went deep for his 7th, keeping this thing alive when a lesser team folds it up and goes home.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Twelve innings is where character shows up. Bullpens get stretched, decisions get made, and tonight the pen did its job when it counted most. Jordan Hicks picked up the win, and give credit to a bullpen that's had its ups and downs this year but found a way tonight against a Yankees team fighting for their own AL East life, just a game and a half back of Tampa. Beating a team with that much on the line means something. That's not garbage-time baseball. That's playing playoff atmosphere in July.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Here's the part I want you to sit with: this puts us at 56-51. We are still hanging around the top of the AL Central, still in this thing, still playing baseball that matters in the summer for the first time in what feels like forever. I'm not going to pretend the last few days have been smooth \u2014 we dropped two straight to these same Yankees before tonight, and this rebuild has taught every one of us not to get ahead of ourselves. But a win like this, a grind-it-out, extra-innings win where the offense had to answer a big early deficit and the bullpen had to hold the line \u2014 that's the identity I want from this team. Small ball, defense, pitching depth, and refusing to fold. That's Sox baseball. That's 2005 baseball, whether these kids know it or not.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Cleveland's still breathing down our necks in the Central, and this stretch against the Yankees was never going to be easy. But we found a way. Tonight we got it.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Go Sox. 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class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Anthony Kay battled. He gave us a chance. But Gerrit Cole did what Gerrit Cole does \u2014 six shutout innings, four hits allowed, and our lineup just couldn't find anything against him. That's the story of tonight in one sentence: we didn't lose because we played bad baseball, we lost because a former Cy Young winner made big league hitters look silly for six innings straight.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Max Schuemann's two-run double was the dagger. That's it. That's the difference in a 3-2 ballgame. One swing, and suddenly you're playing from behind against a bullpen that doesn't blink.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Give the guys credit for not going down easy \u2014 Braden Montgomery kept battling with two hits, and Chase Meidroth made David Bednar sweat with a two-run bomb in the ninth to cut it to one. For about thirty seconds, Guaranteed Rate had a pulse again. Then Bednar buckled down and struck out Everson Pereira to slam the door. Save number 22. Chicago's fourth loss in five.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Here's what stings the most: we're still the team atop the AL Central. We're still 1.5 games up on Cleveland. This isn't a last-place club playing out the string \u2014 this is a contender that just got beat by a better team on a given Tuesday night, and needs to answer for it tomorrow.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>That's the grind of a real season. No moral victories, no participation trophies. You tip your cap to Cole, you own the missed opportunities, and you show up tomorrow ready to play the game the right way \u2014 pitching, defense, situational hitting. That's Sox baseball. 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LOUIS UNDER .500 IN THEIR OWN BALLPARK \ud83d\udd35\ud83d\udc3b<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Some nights this rivalry gives you a nail-biter. Tonight it gave us a demolition, and honestly? I'll take it. Every single time.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>The Cubs didn't wait around. Two outs, first inning, Ian Happ works an 11-pitch at-bat and rips a two-run double to get it started. That's the kind of professional at-bat that sets a tone \u2014 grinding a starter down before he even settles in. By the time the second inning wrapped, McGreevy was toast: Pete Crow-Armstrong's sac fly, a Seiya Suzuki double, RBI singles from Michael Busch and Nico Hoerner \u2014 five more runs on five hits, and just like that it's 7-0 and McGreevy's night is over after 1\u2154 innings, 8 hits, 7 earned runs charged to his line. Brutal.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>And this wasn't a one-man show, it was the whole lineup taking turns. Alex Bregman finished with three hits. Suzuki went 3-for-with-2-RBI. Pedro Ramirez chipped in three hits of his own. Hoerner drove in two. This offense has now put up 12+ hits in four straight games and scored 35 runs over that stretch. That's not a hot streak, that's a buzzsaw.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Colin Rea was the real story on the mound, though. Six strong innings, just one run allowed \u2014 a sac fly in the fourth \u2014 on four hits with a cushion the size of the Gateway Arch behind him. He didn't need to be perfect, but he was genuinely good, and that's exactly what this rotation needs down the stretch. Rea moves to 8-7 and this Cubs staff has posted a 3.07 ERA as a group since July 4th, quietly one of the best marks in baseball. Nobody's talking about that enough.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>St. Louis' only other run came on a Masyn Winn double in the ninth, which is about as meaningful as it sounds in a game that was decided before most fans finished their first Busch Light.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Here's the number that matters most: Cardinals fall to 53-54. Under .500 for the first time all season. They've now lost nine of their last twelve since the break, and we're the team that put them there \u2014 again. Meanwhile, we move to 61-46, a season-high 15 games over .500, matching a mark we've only hit once before, back on May 8th. We're up 2-0 in this series with two more to play at Busch, and this team is playing like it knows exactly what October means.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>I've watched enough ugly losses in St. Louis to know<a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/146101128894246\">#CubsWin<\/a>d<a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/542168862470429\">#chicagocubs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/628628497192426\">#FlyTheW<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/393820094059484\">#cubsvscards<\/a>r<a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/115788078608424\">#GoCubsGo<\/a>i<a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/469937513080326\">#mlbnews<\/a>t the sweep started tomorrow.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>\u26be #CubsWin #ChicagoCubs #FlyTheW #CubsvsCards #GoCubsGo #mlbnews\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t<span class=\"cff-expand\">... <a href=\"#\" style=\"color: #\"><span class=\"cff-more\">See More<\/span><span class=\"cff-less\">See 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LOUIS ALIVE**<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Well, we said goodbye to Busch Stadium the right way today. Cubs 4, Cardinals 2, in ten innings, and honestly? After that gut-punch walk-off loss on Wednesday, this is exactly the response a first-place club is supposed to have.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Javier Assad got the ball for the finale and battled \u2014 he punched out Jordan Walker to open the game, but the Cards scratched a run across in the 2nd when Bryan Torres slapped an RBI single. Cardinals up 1-0, and for a minute it felt like more of the same road-trip misery.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Then Alex Bregman did what Alex Bregman does \u2014 scored from third on a fly ball and a Cardinals error to tie it in the top of the 4th, 1-1. Andre Pallante and the Cubs bullpen traded zeroes for a while, Michael Conforto flashed the arm in the outfield, Masyn Winn made a diving play that should've been the play of the game \u2014 and then Michael Busch delivered the go-ahead single in the 7th to make it 2-1 Cubs.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Naturally, because this is the Cardinals and this is 2026 and nothing comes easy against St. Louis, JJ Wetherholt tied it right back up with a solo shot off Caleb Thielbar in the bottom of the 7th. 2-2. Here we go again, right?<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Not today. In the top of the 10th, Bregman doubled home the ghost runner to put Chicago up 3-2, and Ian Happ followed with another RBI to make it 4-2. This time the bullpen held. This time the Cubs walked out of St. Louis with the series and their dignity intact after Wednesday's Herrera walk-off nightmare.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Split the difference on this four-game set, take the finale in extras, and get on a plane knowing the Yankees are coming to the Friendly Confines. That's a good week even with the Wednesday scar tissue.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>---<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>**\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f UP NEXT: YANKEES INVADE WRIGLEY (July 31 \u2013 Aug 2)**<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Interleague play doesn't get much juicier than this. The Bronx Bombers roll into Clark and Addison for a three-game set \u2014 Friday 1:20 CT, Saturday 7:15 CT on FOX, Sunday 1:20 CT \u2014 and this is a genuine measuring-stick series for a Cubs club trying to prove it belongs with the AL's best.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>The Yankees bring the kind of thump that can turn a Wrigley day game with the wind blowing out into a track meet \u2014 this lineup doesn't need much help finding the bleachers. For the Cubs, it's about getting length from the rotation and not turning this into a bullpen war of attrition three days after they already taxed that unit in St. Louis.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Storylines to watch: does PCA keep hunting mistakes the way he's been hunting them all series? Does Bregman's hot stretch carry into the series that Wrigley Field faithful will actually pack the building for? And can the Cubs' pen \u2014 gassed after four games with the Cards \u2014 hold up against a lineup that doesn't miss many mistakes?<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Wind at our backs, ivy's green, and the Yankee<a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/115788078608424\">#GoCubsGo<\/a>k<a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/151270145036897\">#Cubs<\/a>n<a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/231258370332508\">#chicago<\/a>ouse. 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blame you, but you missed a gut-punch. Pete Crow-Armstrong did what PCA does \u2014 plated a run in the top of the 10th to give Chicago a 2-0 lead and looked like the hero of the night. Then Trent Thornton walked out for the bottom half, and it all came apart. Jordan Walker came around to score, and Iv\u00e1n Herrera \u2014 who's quietly been a Cubs killer all series \u2014 ripped a walk-off double to end it. Ballgame. Heartbreak. Same old song against these guys sometimes, even when Chicago is the better team on paper.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>And let's be real: this loss says less about the Cubs' offense (which has been an absolute machine \u2014 12+ hits in four straight games heading in) and more about a bullpen question that isn't going away on its own. Jacob Webb, Caleb Thielbar, then Thornton in extras \u2014 that's the depth chart thinning out fast. With Hunter Harvey and Daniel Palencia banged up and the trade deadline bearing down, Jed Hoyer doesn't just need a starter. He needs an arm for the eighth and ninth that doesn't make me hold my breath every time the phone rings to the bullpen.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Silver lining: the Cubs still take this series, 2-1, and still sit second in the NL Central with a real hold on that first wild card spot. One extra-inning gut-punch in St. Louis doesn't erase a hot stretch \u2014 Chicago's been outscoring opponents by 34 runs over their last 10.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>**Today's finale, 1:15pm CT at Busch:** Javier Assad (6-1, 3.86 ERA) gets the ball for the Cubs instead of the originally-planned Shota Imanaga \u2014 word is it's just extra rest for Shota with the Yankees looming, not an injury concern, and it keeps Assad on his normal turn. He's been quietly excellent all year. Cardinals counter with Andre Pallante (11-6, 3.77 ERA), who's had a strong season of his own, so this isn't a get-right game against a soft matchup \u2014 St. Louis is sending out a legit arm.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Vegas has the Cardinals as slight favorites at home, but I don't care. This team hasn't blinked all month. Time to go into Busch, take the series win, and remind<a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/115788078608424\">#GoCubsGo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/151270145036897\">#Cubs<\/a>n<a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/231258370332508\">#chicago<\/a>9;s actually built for October.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Let's finish this thing. 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LET THAT SINK IN.** \u26be\ud83d\udda4\ud83e\udd0d<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Twelve innings. Three hours and change of will-they-won't-they baseball, and when the dust settled at Rate Field tonight, it was your Chicago White Sox standing tall, 6-5, over the New York Yankees. On a Wednesday night, in front of our people.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>This one wasn't pretty early. Davis Martin battled through six, giving up four earned on 106 pitches \u2014 grinding, not dominant, but he kept us in it against a Yankees lineup that can turn a mistake into a souvenir in half a second. On the other side, Cam Schlittler was cruising, six-plus innings, eight strikeouts, and for a good stretch it looked like we were headed for another one of those nights where we play good enough to lose.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>But this team has shown you something lately \u2014 it doesn't quit. Munetaka Murakami got hold of one for his 22nd homer of the year, because of course he did, that kid's swing looks like it belongs on the South Side. And when it mattered late, Sam Antonacci went deep for his 7th, keeping this thing alive when a lesser team folds it up and goes home.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Twelve innings is where character shows up. Bullpens get stretched, decisions get made, and tonight the pen did its job when it counted most. Jordan Hicks picked up the win, and give credit to a bullpen that's had its ups and downs this year but found a way tonight against a Yankees team fighting for their own AL East life, just a game and a half back of Tampa. Beating a team with that much on the line means something. That's not garbage-time baseball. That's playing playoff atmosphere in July.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Here's the part I want you to sit with: this puts us at 56-51. We are still hanging around the top of the AL Central, still in this thing, still playing baseball that matters in the summer for the first time in what feels like forever. I'm not going to pretend the last few days have been smooth \u2014 we dropped two straight to these same Yankees before tonight, and this rebuild has taught every one of us not to get ahead of ourselves. But a win like this, a grind-it-out, extra-innings win where the offense had to answer a big early deficit and the bullpen had to hold the line \u2014 that's the identity I want from this team. Small ball, defense, pitching depth, and refusing to fold. That's Sox baseball. That's 2005 baseball, whether these kids know it or not.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Cleveland's still breathing down our necks in the Central, and this stretch against the Yankees was never going to be easy. But we found a way. Tonight we got it.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Go Sox. 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class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Anthony Kay battled. He gave us a chance. But Gerrit Cole did what Gerrit Cole does \u2014 six shutout innings, four hits allowed, and our lineup just couldn't find anything against him. That's the story of tonight in one sentence: we didn't lose because we played bad baseball, we lost because a former Cy Young winner made big league hitters look silly for six innings straight.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Max Schuemann's two-run double was the dagger. That's it. That's the difference in a 3-2 ballgame. One swing, and suddenly you're playing from behind against a bullpen that doesn't blink.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Give the guys credit for not going down easy \u2014 Braden Montgomery kept battling with two hits, and Chase Meidroth made David Bednar sweat with a two-run bomb in the ninth to cut it to one. For about thirty seconds, Guaranteed Rate had a pulse again. Then Bednar buckled down and struck out Everson Pereira to slam the door. Save number 22. Chicago's fourth loss in five.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Here's what stings the most: we're still the team atop the AL Central. We're still 1.5 games up on Cleveland. This isn't a last-place club playing out the string \u2014 this is a contender that just got beat by a better team on a given Tuesday night, and needs to answer for it tomorrow.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>That's the grind of a real season. No moral victories, no participation trophies. You tip your cap to Cole, you own the missed opportunities, and you show up tomorrow ready to play the game the right way \u2014 pitching, defense, situational hitting. That's Sox baseball. 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LOUIS UNDER .500 IN THEIR OWN BALLPARK \ud83d\udd35\ud83d\udc3b<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Some nights this rivalry gives you a nail-biter. Tonight it gave us a demolition, and honestly? I'll take it. Every single time.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>The Cubs didn't wait around. Two outs, first inning, Ian Happ works an 11-pitch at-bat and rips a two-run double to get it started. That's the kind of professional at-bat that sets a tone \u2014 grinding a starter down before he even settles in. By the time the second inning wrapped, McGreevy was toast: Pete Crow-Armstrong's sac fly, a Seiya Suzuki double, RBI singles from Michael Busch and Nico Hoerner \u2014 five more runs on five hits, and just like that it's 7-0 and McGreevy's night is over after 1\u2154 innings, 8 hits, 7 earned runs charged to his line. Brutal.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>And this wasn't a one-man show, it was the whole lineup taking turns. Alex Bregman finished with three hits. Suzuki went 3-for-with-2-RBI. Pedro Ramirez chipped in three hits of his own. Hoerner drove in two. This offense has now put up 12+ hits in four straight games and scored 35 runs over that stretch. That's not a hot streak, that's a buzzsaw.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Colin Rea was the real story on the mound, though. Six strong innings, just one run allowed \u2014 a sac fly in the fourth \u2014 on four hits with a cushion the size of the Gateway Arch behind him. He didn't need to be perfect, but he was genuinely good, and that's exactly what this rotation needs down the stretch. Rea moves to 8-7 and this Cubs staff has posted a 3.07 ERA as a group since July 4th, quietly one of the best marks in baseball. Nobody's talking about that enough.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>St. Louis' only other run came on a Masyn Winn double in the ninth, which is about as meaningful as it sounds in a game that was decided before most fans finished their first Busch Light.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>Here's the number that matters most: Cardinals fall to 53-54. Under .500 for the first time all season. They've now lost nine of their last twelve since the break, and we're the team that put them there \u2014 again. Meanwhile, we move to 61-46, a season-high 15 games over .500, matching a mark we've only hit once before, back on May 8th. We're up 2-0 in this series with two more to play at Busch, and this team is playing like it knows exactly what October means.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>I've watched enough ugly losses in St. Louis to know<a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/146101128894246\">#CubsWin<\/a>d<a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/542168862470429\">#chicagocubs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/628628497192426\">#FlyTheW<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/393820094059484\">#cubsvscards<\/a>r<a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/115788078608424\">#GoCubsGo<\/a>i<a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/469937513080326\">#mlbnews<\/a>t the sweep started tomorrow.<img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/><img class=\"cff-linebreak\" \/>\u26be #CubsWin #ChicagoCubs #FlyTheW #CubsvsCards #GoCubsGo #mlbnews\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t<span class=\"cff-expand\">... <a href=\"#\" style=\"color: #\"><span class=\"cff-more\">See More<\/span><span class=\"cff-less\">See 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