Game Highlights: Pete Crow Armstrong's strong performance leads the Cubs to a win! | 9/9/24

We got a great pitching matchup. This game is going to be big in Japan shoe, Imana for the Cubs and Yamamoto who comes off of the injured list, head to head tonight and that's the beauty. But yes, we saw this in April but to have really four stars from Japan on the field tonight and a sight for sore eyes right here. Yoshinobu Yamamoto set to make his first start since mid June, a 292 a in 14 starts and a guy who strikes out about 28% of the batters that he faces. So the stuff is real fires on two working breaks off a curve. Oh, how we've missed you dirty. This thing bounced in front of the plate and got a swing and miss for me and hap the 12 back to back splitter dives under the swing. And now how about this battle? Saya Suzuki and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, here's the payoff strikes out the side in his first in quite the first impression. 12 and three with a two, 99. That's top five in the national league. He's made 26 starts. Cubs have won 20 of those right away. We get a match up between Japanese superstars and Imana and Shohei Otani first pitch swinging pops it up. Swanson wandering out as Horner gives way and Danby makes the catch one pitch and one out and now it's Mookie Betts high fly ball in the year. Left center field, Pete Cole Armstrong Freeman lifts that in the air. So it's a quick first inning for Imana. He threw just four pitches. Cody Bellinger belly with a couple of hits including a homer last night and back with a 22, he has struck out the first four. A devilish splitter. Carus waits that's laced into left field in a base hit for Peredes. Five strikeouts already goes to the splitter once again gets another k make it five first one to Nikko and that's a line drive and a base hit into center field and Nikko squaring it up to a board and two out and it's beer Armstrong coming to the plate two hits in his first game at Dodger Stadium. That's bounce for first. It eats up. Freeman takes in a foul ground. Here comes Isak Para and the Cubs have jumped in front one to nothing. An in between hop and the gold glover got eaten up one zip. The son of two teachers in Japan baseball, very cerebral game for the one they call pitching philosopher. His first one, Tommy Edmond is turned around to the left field corner and the home run in the game at one inside the foul. The Stanford guy takes the Tom first home run of the season. First time he's gone into the third here in the second stage of his season again, both minor league RHS for just two innings strikes out for the second time. It six punch outs for the pitch , fastball at the knees. Swanson walking back to the dugout before the home plate umpire signaled strike three struck out the side in the first against the top of the order. He's got a shot to do it again here, Suzuki got it. He knows he strikes out the side in the third just as he did in the first. The first two batters have reached for the Dodgers in the bottom of the third. Here comes the top of the order and shohei here's an area where would like to get going again. He's won for his last 20 with runners in scoring position on the ground. Bush grabs it goes to second for one return to first two. Wow, what a double play? That was gorgeous. Quickly, two down with a man at third. So it's up to Mookie with two away, 21 to third. Peredes grabs it. What a job by pumping the fist. Michael Bush runner at first one away. Dave Roberts before the game has said so two innings last time, I mean, does he get four? And dave said if he gets into the fourth, it's great. That's his spot. A first freeman will go to second for one back to first and Yoshinobu Yamamoto with four solid innings and here is the power source for the Dodgers. Here tonight. Tommy Edmon hits this spot hard left center field. It's carrying pretty well. Second. Tommy Edmon has done it again. Reaction from the Suffolks thought Peter Armstrong instead , tommy Edmons first two home runs in a Dodger uniform have come on the same night hit a 2 to 1 lead. Max Munsey will be the first batter in the bottom of the fifth up against the left hander Imana turns on the ball, bless it to right center field. Good sign Max Muncy with a home run against third Dodger home run of the game in a 31 lead. Thanks to Max Muncey's 13th of the season underneath the leather and that's going to be a base hit for close play has back in. I think he might have got him, got him on the shoulder. Yeah, they are going to look at it. How about that? It was just a good tag of at first base. The field. He overturned the runners out. Chicago will retain the challenge that one drilled out towards right center field, Pete Crow Armstrong racing and he made the catch what a play PC A on the move and he steals extra bases from #### hernandez. Evan Phillips down third appearance. This guy has been a super reliable member of their bullpen and that one dribbled third base side, Barnes pounces on it to first and it pulls freeman off the base. Everybody's safe. Dansby is aboard. It's an error on the catcher. This is what you want here in the eighth two aboard. Nobody out. And the Cubs with their big bat at the plate and that's a base hit up the middle p around third. He's in to score. Swanson dives into third, Gets away. It's into the camera. Well, Swanson comes in to score and it is 33. How do you like that? And the Cubs have come back to tie it and ran throw from center field from tommy Edmond and Chicago has tied the game at three to a board for Bush zero for three. Today, that one hit softly on the ground. Hernandez, it kicks away. Racing home is Suzuki and the Cubs have the lead hernandez tried to grab it and put the tag on the runner Bellinger before he actually had the ball one of the ugliest half innings of the year. And now the Cubs will try to get an insurance run. Niko Horner batting line drive, fair ball base hit, get to the corner. Here comes Bellinger and they'll hold the runner at third as Bush dives back in. It's a double for Nikko and RB I and knocks in a run. It's 53. So the Cubs lead it 5 to 3 still just one out 2nd and 3rd for Pete Co Armstrong bounced diving play, Hernandez is only play is at first run comes in and it's 63 and Otani with the bases empty and this place is gigantic. Otani hits that one out towards right center and Palco Armstrong. Holy cow extra style points. What in the world was that? Rar Graterol will take over? It's good to see him back high fly ball to center field, going back. He's got it in the top of the night. Good to see Bruce Dark all back on the mound. New pitcher will be Porter Hodge as he tries to collect the save and the numbers have been excellent for the right hander. That is a two round bases at third with two down. One for 31 hit was a big one to right center field. Pete Cole Armstrong at the wall jumps. Oh baby Heat Crow Armstrong steals a homer from Max Munsey and that is how this one comes to an end. What a comeback win for the Cubs tonight. This is as sparkling of an individual defensive performance you will ever see in a single game.