Game highlights: Cubs win Game Two of The Series vs. STL! | 8/2/24

He drove in the first of two go ahead runs in the top of the 10th inning in Game 7 of the 2016 World Series and was named the most valuable player. Please welcome back your 2016 World Series MVP Ben Zubrin. Javier Assad going today Sunday in Kansas City his first quality start since the game against Atlanta back on May 15th. He got a 220 era at nine home starts this year. Also he enjoys his time here at Wrigley Field and as always part of the narrative with Assad so tough he has been in his career with men on base just a buck eighty four batting average against Harvey when he's got traffic three homers for Mason since the All-Star game was tapped in front of the plate. Bethencourt takes two and that cost him an infield hit. He called off the pitcher and very casually went to feel that ball in front of home plate one and one in a year right field Suzuki drifting back. He's got a beat on it makes the catch as he steps onto the warning track. Wilson Gutierrez here the former Cobb there he goes to run swinging a miss throw to second tag out in second. Wow. Nico Horner did a great job letting that ball travel. Bethencourt has a bazooka back there and they cut down win at the second swing and a miss struck him out. The Cardinals do not score strikeout by Assad. Yes the Cardinals will have a debut today. Eric Fetty who was picked up in a three way trade with the White Sox to bolster the card starting rotation. He will be making his Cardinals debut today. This is Seah Suzuki. He's the hottest of all the Cubs hitters line drive curling down the left side fair ball. That's going to get into the corner. More slug from Seah around second. He's thinking about third on his way to third. That's good hustle by Seah. The play right in front of him Ron. He did not rely on any base coaching from Willie Harris. He saw that he could make it and he did Suzuki with a three backer. Now Cody Bellinger a rifle towards center. But Seah he's going to gather that in. Nice comeback for Fetty. Welcome to the Cardinals. He's got his first scoreless ending under his belt. He socked Paredes the former Tampa Bay Ray. That one is caught on and missed it hit the glove of Contreras pop straight in the air and he caught it with a bare hand. Nico Horner the batter slice the other way. That's a fair ball to base hit. Picks it up. Cubs get their second hit of the game scoreless ballgame second inning. It'd be the one guy in the Cubs lineup that has seen a decent amount of Fetty came into play today eight out of twenty two three to. That's tap towards third. And Arenado charges. Throw to first safe Swanson beats it out to a board with one out. Pete Crow Armstrong now that he's got four outs and this pitch. Fifty hit hard base hit right field. Here comes Nico around third and he's in the score Swanson stays put. Pete Armstrong start to swing it better. That was a bullet into right one nothing Cubs. Well you're one pitch away from getting out of the inning if Christian Bethencourt can't hit and do a double play. First batting one seventy eight in the year out towards right center field. That's pretty well hit. New York back some more opposite field three run homer for Christian Bethencourt and the Cubs have opened up a four nothing lead. So we've got our hands full here in game two Chicago with four runs in the second inning four straight hits after the Parady strikeout as we go to Michael Bosch. That's crushed right field. New bar going back. Let's go. That's the cardinal debut that Eric said he was hoping for as the Cubs have jumped all over. So now the Cardinals are one swing from getting right back into the game with Paul Goldschmidt coming up bases full of Redbirds. And Miss Lowe to bases loaded walk Goldschmidt is passed for the second time his forty third RBI makes it a five one game and with two outs the dangerous Arenado stepping in in the year and Assad gets out of the jam. One down Pete Crowe Armstrong the batter on ball one strike. Another high fly ball new bar into the corner when pushing that toward the stands and we lost sight of new but he makes the catch up against the wall. Good play. That's not fun down there at all. Reminds me of what my grandfather used to say all the time here. I used to look at the sun through a pair of binoculars all the time. You ever try that doctor with the top of the order facing Eric Petty marks the third time in the lineup to center Ciani on the run right at the four hundred sign. He's got that at Hamp is retired. Fetty sat down eight in a row and right to Mason when he's got that and the first is in time nine up nine down for Fetty two way here in the fifth is lifted toward center Ciani back toward the infield now recovers and makes the play and Fetty gets the Cardinals through five innings in his St. Louis debut. He retires the last ten in order and trails five to one Miller on the mound for his second inning. Good start to this inning when you get through Goldschmidt and now you got Aaron Otto in the year line left beaming and sliding making the catch his hat. He came in never took his eye off the ball slid on his knee and made a backhanded catch two down. That was going to be bang bang either way but a drop gives Newport and the Cardinals some hope in the six. So Tommy Pham was up right. He makes the catch. I'll say a nice play backhand reaching high over his head going away. Very nice play by Segar Suzuki. So two strikeouts and three walks in the inning Tommy Pham up in a huge spot for the Cardinals. He's over three today. It's high. Another bases loaded walk four walks in the inning. Both Cardinals runs have come on bases loaded walks and now Brendan Donovan a left hand batter could put the Cardinals in front with a slam of his own Neris has been awesome for Chicago this year. Eight wins fourteen saves has only allowed three inherited runners to score for the fifth walk of the inning. It's a five three game Cardinals walking themselves right back into this game. There has not been a ball in play in this inning winning. And this is the eighth batter for the Cardinals. It is there for the taking. Can we take it in game two. Struck him out. Neris strikes out Crawford. There's the biggest out of the game recorded by the Cubs pitching staff. Say one for three. Drilled out towards left center field and a touchdown for him. Say Suzuki is locked in right now. It's a two base hit for Segar Suzuki his two hits today. A double and a triple and now Suzuki is going to be picked up and the ball goes in the center field. Suzuki is going to score. Cubs get a huge break. Cubs lead six three. Suzuki was picked off second base comes in out away from making it three in a row. Bush has it. Neris and the home stand off to a good start. Sing this song.