{"id":199097,"date":"2025-10-09T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T01:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/199097\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T01:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T01:00:07","slug":"cubs-use-4-run-1st-inning-to-stay-alive-vs-brewers-in-nlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/199097\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs use 4-run 1st inning to stay alive vs. Brewers in NLDS"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHICAGO — Pete Crow-Armstrong<\/a> hit a tiebreaking two-run single and the Chicago Cubs<\/a> avoided a sweep by holding off the Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> for a 4-3 victory in Game 3 of their NL Division Series on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Crow-Armstrong’s two-out swing was part of a four-run first inning for Chicago, continuing a wild trend. Michael Busch<\/a> kicked off the rally by becoming the first player in major league history with multiple leadoff homers in a single postseason series.<\/p>\n

The matchup of NL Central rivals is the first postseason series in which both teams scored in the first in each of the first three games.<\/p>\n

Jake Bauers<\/a> rallied Milwaukee with an RBI single in the fourth and a leadoff drive in the seventh. He started at first base in place of Andrew Vaughn<\/a>, who hit a three-run homer in the Brewers’ 7-3 victory in Game 2 on Monday night.<\/p>\n

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Milwaukee loaded the bases in the eighth, but Brad Keller<\/a> escaped the jam when he struck out Bauers swinging. Keller then retired the side in order in the ninth for the save.<\/p>\n

Game 4 of the best-of-five series is Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Looking to sweep their way to the franchise’s first trip to the NL Championship Series since 2018, Milwaukee jumped in front in the first.<\/p>\n

With runners on first and second with one out, William Contreras<\/a> hit a mile-high popup that Busch lost in the sun before it landed in the infield for a single. Sal Frelick<\/a> followed with a sacrifice fly off Jameson Taillon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chicago got the run right back when Busch drove a full-count cutter from Quinn Priester<\/a> deep to right-center, delighting the crowd of 40,737 at Wrigley Field. It was the first baseman’s team-high third homer of the postseason.<\/p>\n

A single by Nico Hoerner<\/a> and walks for Kyle Tucker<\/a> and Ian Happ<\/a> loaded the bases for Crow-Armstrong, who chased Priester with a liner to right. Happ made it 4-1 when he scampered home on a wild pitch from Nick Mears<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO — Pete Crow-Armstrong hit a tiebreaking two-run single and the Chicago Cubs avoided a sweep by holding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-199097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}