{"id":412426,"date":"2026-09-28T01:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T01:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/412426\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T01:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T01:52:13","slug":"alex-bregmans-huge-day-at-the-plate-in-relocated-season-finale-powers-cubs-to-6-2-win-over-red-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/412426\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Bregman&#8217;s huge day at the plate in relocated season finale powers Cubs to 6-2 win over Red Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            http:\/\/www.bozemandailychronicle.com offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced.\n        <\/p>\n<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Alex Bregman went 4 for 4 with two home runs and four RBIs in his second game back from a frightening injury, and the Chicago Cubs beat the Boston Red Sox 6-2 on Sunday in a regular-season finale that was relocated to Tropicana Field.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago is the No. 5 seed in the National League playoffs and will play a best-of-three Wild Card Series at fourth-seeded San Diego beginning Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Boston is the No. 5 seed in the American League playoffs and will travel to New York to open its Wild Card Series the same night against the rival Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>Major League Baseball moved the Cubs-Red Sox season finale to Florida because of a weekend nor\u2019easter that was expected to batter the Boston area into Monday. Ahead of the storm, the Red Sox swept a doubleheader from the Cubs on Friday at Fenway Park.<\/p>\n<p>Bregman went 0 for 4 with a strikeout at designated hitter in the opener \u2014 five days after sustaining facial fractures when he was struck in the face by a foul ball while standing in the on-deck circle.<\/p>\n<p>The three-time All-Star third baseman, who played for Boston last year, was the DH again Sunday and fared much better at the plate in his final postseason tuneup. In addition to finishing a triple shy of the cycle, he drew a walk and scored three times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See AP\u2019s full MLB coverage here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bozemandailychronicle.com offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[3816,163440,3823,163001,121011,110,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-412426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-baseball","tag-cubs-red-sox-score-bregman","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-mlb-world-series","tag-sports","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}