The No. 4 Chicago Cubs evened the series with a 6-0 home win over the No. 1 Milwaukee Brewers in the National League Division Series, forcing a decisive Game 5 after falling behind 0-2.<\/p>\n
The winner of the Cubs and Brewers series will advance to face the Los Angeles Dodgers, who defeated the Philadelphia Phillies on Thursday 3-1, in the National League Championship Series.<\/p>\n
Cubs ace Matthew Boyd had a standout performance, pitching 4 2\/3 innings with six strikeouts while allowing just two hits and no earned runs.<\/p>\n
Ian Happ had a big Game 4, with three RBI while carrying a .115 batting average. Kyle Tucker went 2-for-3 with an RBI, Matt Shaw added an RBI on 2-for-3 hitting and Michael Busch launched a home run on his only at-bat of the night.<\/p>\n
Boyd and the Cubs thrilled MLB fans by forcing a Game 5 against the top team in the National League.<\/p>\n
The Cubs started strong in the bottom of the first, as Happ launched a two-run home run, driving in Nico Hoerner and Tucker to take a quick 3-0 lead over Milwaukee.<\/p>\n
In the bottom of the sixth, Shaw singled in Carson Kelly for another RBI, extending Chicago’s lead to 4-0.<\/p>\n
Tucker crossed home plate for the second time of the night with a 414-foot solo home run in the bottom of the seventh, pushing the Cubs’ lead to 5-0.<\/p>\n
Adding insult to injury, Busch launched his fourth postseason home run, a 401-foot solo shot in the eighth inning, extending the Cubs’ lead to 6-0.<\/p>\n
The series will return to Milwaukee for Game 5 on Saturday, with first pitch set for 8:08 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The No. 4 Chicago Cubs evened the series with a 6-0 home win over the No. 1 Milwaukee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-201924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}