Cardinals vs. Cubs Game Highlights (9/28/25) | MLB Highlights

Javier Assad will get the start his seventh and his eighth overall appearance of the year two up two down and here's Gorman the pitch on the way a swing and a miss after a half inning the Cardinals fail to gain a baserunner the Cubs are coming to bat at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Signing day for Kyle Lea has been a pretty good early career for Kyle Lea. Ninety seven appearances all have been out of the pen. A unique opportunity here getting a chance to start his first major league game two two outs is he in half again to left and Church Hartley had to move. It's a one two three inning for Kyle Lea in his first major league start. Way to go. One pitch one out in the second inning for Javier Assad. Jordan Walker was a home run in this series due to Walker's swing and a miss struck him out like out number two Jimmy Crooks the Cardinals catcher is next line into center PC Amos plays that that's behind him that'll roll to the Ivy Brooks around second. He's on his way to third and Popwater will stop him there. Pico Armstrong with a rare mistake in center and Crooks takes advantage. He stands at third with two outs of first career triple here for Jimmy Crooks. I don't know if it ended up just sitting down before Pico Armstrong thought it was going to tail back on him. Let's see if the Cardinals now can take advantage of this. So first baseman Joel Pozo. Pop fly into shallow right going out his corner he'll make the call and the catch no runs for St. Louis third inning in Chicago. We are scoreless Victor looking for his first hit of the series batting to 13 overall. That one headed for the gap in right center for Armstrong a nice job to cut that off. That's what you want to see Victor do more of line drives to the alleys lead off single Nathan Church who's got a home or eight RBI swing and a miss Church comes up in the third strikeout for a side there's one away as the runner goes pitch high and dropped in a belly flop steal for Victor Scott is thirty-fourth and it's three and one for for me and out ball for two aboard for Yvonne Herrera who chased half to the Ivy his first time up and see if Assad can throw one of those sinkers and induce a ground ball right about now there it is bounced a second fielded by Horner steps on the bag throws the first double play just what the doctor was in order and at the end of two and a half no score. Pete Armstrong gets his first look at Kyle Lea. I drive Rick right field by Walker and there is your first out Castro switch hitter batting from the left side on the ground Mike it to there's one there's two. How about Kyle Lea he he works three innings in his first big league start leading off the top of the fourth inning for St. Louis. Gorman who chased down and away his first time up it's nine and a swing and a miss. That was a change up. Javier Assad fourth strikeout of the day. Mr. J.C. J.C. caught looking strikeout number five for Javier Assad and quickly two outs for the Redbirds in the fourth inning. Jordan Walker the 0 2 Paul on the ground a third glove by Castro on a good bounce and he shows a very strong arm running it across the diamond in time three up three down good pitching by Assad for shutout inning so far we go to the bottom of the fourth. John King now is on in release the left. He has the bottom of the fourth inning and his first assignment Michael Bush as he ties up Michael Bush three pitches retires him. Bush is all for to Nico Hornu flied out to left his first time I drive and a base hit for Nico what else is new have pops it up might be playable third base inside shallow left and the third baseman now moving into foul territory is Gorman making the catch in the shadows over near the Cubs third base dugout two down Tucker drives one to left it's going to be caught by Church and he makes the catch no runs for the Cubs. We go to the fifth inning game one sixty two Cubs and Cardinals scoreless says Suzuki at the plate. That is a straight games for San Suzuki with a homer. And just like that the Cubs have a one nothing lead. Number thirty two wacky wacky game this is struggling for so long in terms of the long ball and hits one every day. Coming at a good time. Talk about timing with say getting hot Pete Armstrong getting hot Michael Bush extremely hot and now you get Tucker back in the lineup and you hope talking find his way back to his best form. The Cubs offense starts clicking. Look out. Suzuki goes the five homers in the last four games. Javier Assad back to work out there's a fair mean first up here in the Cardinals sixth inning. Tapper back to the mound the side being retired the pitching change Javier Assad done for the day. Good work. Covey had Swanson deals Willie Castro's which hitter batting left handed and a swing and a miss Swanson is home and that's two strikeouts for him he's faced two batters with them both one away Bush came into this game six out of seven in the series on the ground left side Cardinals had him played perfectly and a strike to first that is out. Number two Nicko Horner has a hit today he's one for two high fly ball hit to left church is back but the wind will take that one away from Horner. We go to the seventh on the season's final day. Cubs won Cardinals nothing. Oh Matt's great year ends in Chicago. Ryan Fernandez looking for a redeemer. Start with Kevin Alcantara on the ground hard hit base hit up the middle. It's a lead off single here in the seventh inning for Kevin Alcantara and the Cubs have a man on. That one off the glove of Brooks down the second goes Alcantara. So after a leadoff base hit a couple of punch outs and Moises Ballesteros who's playing first base now he began as the catcher. Drive slicing out towards left center and it'll fall for a hit Alcantara comes in to score by a sterile scenario single it's to nothing. Team up to bring home run number two. Surprised to see Ballesteros get a big at bat late game situation. Riley O'Brien comes out to work the bottom of the eighth inning one out. Willie Castro is coming up and a swing and a miss nice pitch by O'Brien for out number two. So it's Reese McGuire's turn to squeeze the handle he digs in Reese McGuire with a base hit over the leaping fair mean Warner one for three is caught on and missed and O'Brien a nice eighth inning. Well we go to a do or die top of the ninth for the Cardinals one down here in the ninth inning. Thomas said J.C. there's a bullet to left. So J.C. keeps on hitting two more hits for him. That's Pabaldon left and J.C. gets an extra 90 feet. So we're not done yet. And now Walker who can tame any wind could tie it up to swing and a miss. He went upstairs and beat him looking to sing that song for the 50th time this year. Forty nine and thirty one on the Cubs here at Wrigley. It's the Crooks playoff baseball comes your way from Wrigley on Tuesday. Cubs in the win column. Ninety two wins of the year and number 50 at home.