Game Highlights: Late Game Knocks Push Cubs Over White Sox in Game One of Crosstown Series | 6/4/24

Back here at Wrigley White Sox and the Cubs Crosstown Series coming up game one here tonight with Shoka Ienaga on the mound. Oh two pitch swung on and missed a three pitch strikeout to begin. The game jolts is gone. Here's Andrew Vug. That one is a single into center field. So Vaughn after telling the manager I want to play tonight, first hit of the ball game for the White Sox. Welcome back, Luis Robert Jr. After missing 53 games with a hip flexor strain, he is back in a white Sox uniform and a miss right there and robert chasing and comes up empty two down, Paul Deo, the former Cardinal swinging knock of the strikeout is gone. He pitches around the single here. Come the Cubs up to go to the bottom of the chris Flexen going the mound and he got off to a great start this year. It's 11th start, 13th appearance looking for his third win with an er, a of 5.5 with a ground ball to short and making a nice play. One down here is sean Suzuki. This one is smashed to center field. Robert Junior at the warning track will make the catch for the second out of the inning. So two down, it's Cody Bellinger. He's playing right and he got the strikeout for a 123 1st inning. Nothing, nothing game. And that one popped up and Horner going out pulls that one down. Cory Lee, the batter and a swing and a miss got him on the splitter fourth strikeout for, I believe he's got all four on the splitter. Danny Mende, the batter on the ground. That's the third and pick it up quickly and throws him out in a 1 to 2 to 3 inning for Iman Christopher Mll. First up good pitch by Flexen. Blew away with the fastball four straight retired by chris Flexen to begin his night of work. Nothing, nothing game. Second inning, here's Ian happ pitch three strikeouts in a row for Flexen. So this time he cuts it, holds it a little off center trying to get some movement late as you can see Happ swings under the baseball. Here's Michael Bush grounder to the right side, one by one and the flip to flexing who has faced the minimum through two, no score. Soa Iman picks it up. He had time. He never touched the ball with his bare hand, thought he would shovel it glove to glove, to Busch and the ball stayed in the glove too long and it flipped up in the air way too high. Not in time at first that's an infield single. So here's Maldonado with a man on and nobody out line drive. Watson picks it up with a short hop. It starts at six 43. Gorgeous, a tip of the cap from Imana to Dansby Swanson. Thank you, my friend. Yeah, this is a 10 for difficulty on the catch on the back hand slide. Yeah, it's, yeah, I don't know how else to say. It's a 1010 that corey jokes his second at bat tonight swing and a miss struck him out on a splitter five strikeouts for Naga, the Cubs defense picking him up. Dans May made that fabulous defensive play in the top of the inning and sure enough, he leads it off here in the bottom half. 12 pitch reflects him and he has got his good stuff going tonight. That's his fourth strikeout. All the strikeouts have been swinging. Chris didn't get it up as high as corey Lee wanted it, but it's still very effective as he throws it by him. Now, Pete Crow Armstrong, a weak ground ball to the right side and Danny Mendi will make the play two down, miguel Amaya, there's a line drive base hit left center off the bat of miguel Amaya Cubs get their first hit and first base runner , even though there's two outs, see if Niko now can keep the, keep the line moving here a little bit swinging a ground ball right to the young at short he'll flip it over to Mendi Force play at second and that's it for the Cubs. Here's robert. He struck out in the first inning junior this one to right field and it will get down the throw to second as Vaughn had to wait gets in safely. That's a very tough play for a baserunner because you don't really know if Bellinger is going to make this catch, you see the pick on the back hand and also for Crow Armstrong in center field, that's a really good play because he's backing up. Bellinger. Bellinger misses it. It's not going all the way to the Ivy. So here's the chance two on nobody out for Paul De Young swings the first pitch grounds it to third and it's misplayed by rounding third. He will score. They say the ball is dead, it looked like it got out of play, it got trapped under the padding. And I think on that play, I do believe that he will score anyway. He scores, everybody moves up a bag and this is played poorly by Morell who is not the best third baseman around defensively. Andrew taking advantage of it. Vaughn saw that this far enough away and it gets stuck right there under the padding. Now, Craig Council is coming out and they're going to discuss the ground rules in his home park goes five, that's a for sure. Now he's going to explain to Craig Council that everybody is going to stay where they are currently including the run on the board. One run in two men in scoring position for gavin cheats. This one popped up and now Maya , and that's a big out one away. Got to keep focused right here if you're Corey Lee, ok, with a line drive to left and it's gonna what up the wall two runs will score Cory Lee in the second and it's 3 to 0 White Sox here in the fourth, second time through has been the charm runs batted in. Number 14 and 15. Sox have a three run lead and the Sox have taken advantage of an opening that the Cubs gave them with the play at third base. Danny Mendik, who we've seen play at third base this season and picks it up and that one dug out nicely by Busch Lee to third two away. So Lee advances to 90 ft now it's Sosa. This one had well done. Go Lane Sousa his first home run of the season and what a big time for it. A 50 White Sox lead here in the fourth just getting to Imanaka. Here comes the rain. They put the tarp down on the field. White Sox lead five to nothing. The rain delay lasted a little more than half an hour here at Wrigley Field, a man at second base and Corey CHS one away, Luis Robert jr at the plate. The count is one and two popped up. Right side horner on the dirt. Number two, the cleanup man pulled the young at the play reaching center field late start PC A charging in, he's got it one away bottom of the fifth innings. Ian happ at second base, Dansby Swanson at the plate drilled left center field that's gonna touch down and that'll bang up against the Ivy hat will cruise in and score. Swanson will trade places. It's an RB I double in. It's fine. One. The new right hand pitcher for the white Sox is Justin anderson inside. I believe it hit him in the foot but he got hit in the back foot with a breaking ball. He tried to lift the foot to avoid being hit but it got him right on the toes. He seems to be ok. He'll take his base two down. Here's where the Cubs could use a long ball right now from chris Morell in the air, left center field. Christopher Mll parks it into the bleachers. Look like a hanging breaking ball. There you go. That's what we're both talking about. You called for the long ball and Morell hits his 11th home run. This is a bomb to straight left field, no doubt home run. From the time it leaves the bath , it's now 5 to 3 white Sox Tanner banks, the new man on the mound of South Paw for the Sox lined into left field. That's a base hit. Yolks picks it up on a bounce half with the no, the inning continues. Let's see if there is a pinch batter coming up from Michael Bush. This might be Patrick Wisdom. Wisdom does have four career pinch hit home runs, swinging a fly ball left center and deep that goes Robert, the wall. That's a for the ball game is tied at five. Listen to this crowd they wanted points. They got points as Wisdom sits back on the fifth offspeed pitch of the at bat and hooks it into the basket in left center field. Big pinch hit two run. Bob for wisdom, good work Tyson Miller inning and two thirds one hit no runs. He walked the batter turns it over to Hayden Wisneski who's been very good two down. Here's robert. This one, a deep shot up to left love back on the prowl. Luis Robert junior in his first game back goes deep and the White Sox retake the lead third home run of the year. He's now driven in five white Sox fans ecstatic the Cub fans. They are giving him a standing two and one. The count on a Maya sends this one the other way to right field and the catch is made by gavin Sheets, just lay out it, get it. He said he's been working on his defense and sheets flashes the leather. Well, it's a wonderful play because it came off the bat from a right hand hitter, which means it's slicing away from it and if he doesn't get this, it's at least three and possibly even for a catcher, an inside the park home run takes ball, four tying run is on potential. Go ahead run at the plate. Christopher Morell the pitch ground ball to short a scrambling stop and the throw to second time De Young slid on his knees to glove that ball and I'm not sure that he had to, but it slowed down his transfer, shoveling the ball to men at second. A hustling Bellinger is called safe great play by belly and Morrell gets a hit. Listen to this crowd I and half the batter and he hits a drive to right field on the run sheets. It gets past him. Finger scores the slide. He scores hubs lead a two run double for Ian half. He will take over Duke Ellis. Now the potential tying run at second one away. Ninth inning, any chance at all , they're going to challenge this one. They are going to take a look at that little slim move. He's out certainly worth the challenger for the White Sox. This stage of the game will be confirmed. The field is confirmed. Part of now the Sox all of a sudden are down to their last strike popped in the air. Wisdom has it. And the Cubs come from behind to beat the White Sox by a score of 7 to 6.