Game Highlights: Cubs throw first no-hitter at Wrigley Field since 1972! | 9/4/24

Chicago Cubs taking on the Pittsburgh Pirates and guess what? It's show time. A lot of Imana Jerseys Cubs desperately need a victory here tonight to Imana on the mound. 19 and six are the Cubs. When he's a starting pitcher. He himself 11 and three with a 3.14. Er, a that's 11th best in MLB. He has seen the Pirates once it was back in May and he pitched to dandy seven innings of scoreless baseball allowing just four hits pop up. He goes one hour Reynolds bouncing ball deep third, Peredes a fine play and drop on the other end by Bush couldn't handle the hop an in between hop that Bush has to contend with it. Good work here by Peredes with the glove. Little hop short. Dansby Tanika. That's a double play and the inning quickly comes to an end. Domingo Herman delivers in the right. It's a base hit for Ian hat one pitch, one single. That's efficiency. It's amazing how much success he's had lately just going up there attacking that first pitch that's high for ball. Four Cubs have a great scoring chance right away. 1st and 2nd. Nobody out it's a little left field, it's a base hit, it stops at third and it's bobble hat comes in to score. Say it a second. It's one to nothing Cubs early and often it would be nice for the Cubs offensively here tonight. After a couple of lean nights should be a great matchup for Suzuki. He, you know, he's gonna get some pitches he can handle, he's gonna Hammer some baseballs today and he does this one by a rare mistake by Reynolds Bellinger swinging on a 30 pitch. De La Cruz has a very strong arm. Wonder at third is tagging and trying to score and it's going to be a bang bang play. He is out. Henry davis applies the tag on Michael Bush. What a perfect throw from the Pirates right fielder de La Cruz. I mean, perfectly placed right on the money. What a double play that was and bounce to third triolo backs up and throw on to first did that clean things up in a hurry. What a difference. One, nothing. So two outs, two on second inning and the batter will be Michael A Taylor Taylor drives one to left coming in. Ian hap on the run makes the catch at shoulder level, angling to the left field line and that ends the inning to left. That will start a new hitting streak with the singer leadoff single for Nikko. He had been one for eight in the first two games in left field for a base hit. Make that a 15 game on base streak just like the first inning. It's 1st and 2nd. Nobody out here for the Cubs spot here for Pete Crow Armstrong sitting 310 with an 867 OP Ss over his last 37 rounds it into the left center, into the gap, but he can get it bangs off the wall. Here's the throw home, it's late. It's an RB I double for Pete Crow Armstrong. What? Great at bat for Pete. You know, I always love it when he gets his pitch away and he goes with it. Great base running by Nikko and I just love the at bat by Pete Crow Armstrong. The 02 ground ball right side base hit one run is in Co Armstrong heading home. He'll score Cubs lead four to nothing. Ian hat against the Pittsburgh Pirates as success continues. Two run single here in the 2nd, 3rd up the Cubs two outs and here is Brian Reynolds. Ryan Reynolds hits a fly ball to right toward the line. Is Bellinger. Does he have a play? Yes over near the line and the side wall. And it's a 123 inning for shot. Here's Dansby Swanson Bellinger at second with two outs here tonight. This is his second start in his first one. He went six scoreless against Texas and as you said, struggled against the Cubs last week in Pittsburgh Cubs getting in tonight. In the air deep, left field, black bear meals to the wall. It's gone. Two run homer, Dansby Swanson, a hanging breaking ball and the Cubs take a commanding six to nothing lead boy that left the park in a hurry. Yeah, there's nothing wrong with that swing. This pitch is up in inner third and Dansby Hammers this ball into the well and left big swing in the bat. Big two run by, he lifts that ball to center like Taylor. He's got two back. Dansby swats it two run shot and PC A with the solo block seven to nothing. Here in the third PC A had a rough night last night swinging the bat four strikeouts in the game last night today. He's two for two in the first three innings. Last Pirate to reach was Jared Triolo. He drew a 10 pitch walk in the second and he's coming up, here's the pitch, a swing and a miss at a pitch in the dirt as Umaya applies the tag on Triolo strike 32 away swing and a miss strike three got him with a splitter and the Pirates are hitless through the first five innings. Now the Cubs have something brewing once again here in the last of the fifth men at 1st and 2nd with one away Dansby Swanson due up the third base line hits off of trio's glove and it's into left field Peredes scores Horner to third and Dansby Swanson brings in another run. It's 8 to 0 Cubs three for three single homer and that RB I double right now, Cambi is sitting at home watching going, hey, he's a triple shy of the cycle lines it in the right field. That's a base hit another run scores. It's nine to nothing Cubs and now PC A is three for three and now the seventh spot in the Cubs lineup in the eighth spot in the Cubs lineup are a triple away from the cycle. That's pretty good nine nothing Cubs as the Pirates come to bat in the sixth looking for hit number one against Shoda Imana three two pitch popped up. This ball is fouled, might be playable for a Maya. It is and that's out. Number one, I think he's gonna bounce out the way he, uh, oh, it's a base hit. That's gonna be a hit, huh? That's gonna be another error. Peredes charged with an error in the first inning on a ball hit by RNS strike three strike out for show up right on that four. Seamer putting in on the hands batching a very good hitter. Ok. Oh, my goodness. That's gonna be the third error on Peredes who wants to crawl in a hole right now. Tough night defensively for Isak , two outs, two on the inning should be over o'neill Cruz the batter zero for two. This strike three. So does that Shila Imana six scoreless. No hit frames What a feast Suzuki is on for cody Bellinger who is one out of three Os on to center like way Taylor back to the wall. It's George belly bomb 15th of the year. Dead center 11 to nothing Cubs Cubs on top 11 to nothing. Shotta Imanaka has not yet allowed a base hit as he works in the seventh inning sky to left Ian Hat. What a leg over to short dans two 11 to nothing Cubs, two outs in the seventh Pirates looking for their first hit against Shotta Imana of the Cubs. Here comes the crowd swing and a miss strike 30 Shoda seven scoreless. No hit innings. How about that? Top of the eighth inning, Theresa Iago getting a lot of hats on the back. Seven scoreless, no hit innings this night is finished. And you hear the booze as Nate came out of the bullpen and the fans realized that Imanaka Night was done a popular decision by the manager. It's not the manager's job to be popular swinging a high pop up right side playable for Bush and he'll make the catch run out number one to Imana seven innings. Nate Pearson third in of innings. Henry Davis makes the catch two away two outs and back to the top for Isaiah kiner FFA. Nope. It's going to be Alika Williams to pinch hit two pitch grounder to short Dansby ends the inning eight scoreless, no hit innings for the Cubs pitching staff buckle in. Go to the bottom of the eighth up. 11 to nothing. It's rowdy Telez again his third appearance in the past week on the mound. Perez trying to put up a zero in this 11 to nothing Cubs game left center. It's a base hit Bush rounds third and scores and Miles Mastro RB I single 12 to cuts. We go to the ninth inning Pirates without a hit. OTA Imana went seven. Nate Pearson went one and now Porter Hodge is on in the ninth inning. Grounder to short Pirates do not have a hit one out in the ninth inning trailing 12 to nothing to the Cubs by no hitter through eight and a third. Here's a bouncer to short gloving and his Dansby Swanson throws the first two down and the Pirates down to their last chance when I did not come out to pitch the eighth, but they have rallied here in support of the Cubs bullpen. Finish this off. Everybody on their Pirates down to their last strike. The pitch bouncer slowly towards Swanson. He's got it throws to first no hitter that combined no hitter for the Chicago Cubs, Shona Imana seven innings order Hodge gets the final three. Nate Pearson worked a scoreless and hitless eighth inning and the Cubs have combined on a no hit ball game here tonight at Wrigley first Cubs no hitter since 1972 here at the friendly cup fights for the Cubs