Holy cow! The Cubs shut out the Bucs 11-0 on Saturday behind a quality start from Shota Imanaga, a three-inning save from Javier Assad (3 IP, 3 K), and a 4-for-5, 3 RBI night from Pete Crow-Armstrong!
The Men in Blue broke a scoreless tie in the top of the 5th with an RBI double from PCA and a two-run single from Seiya Suzuki. They scored five more in the 6th, three more in the 7th, and one more in the 8th to make it a laugher.
PCA is now hitting .291 on the season with a .934 OPS. His OPS for the month of July is 1.041 after posting a ridiculous 1.252 in June. He now leads MLB in both bWAR and fWAR (yes, even ahead of Ohtani) and it's not particularly close.
Congrats to James Triantos for tallying his first MLB hit and run scored (1.000 BA!).
The series wraps up Sunday in Pittsburgh before the North Siders head to Busch Stadium to kick off a four-game set against the third place Cardinals.
104 games down, 58 to go.
Go Cubs go!
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