Chicago Cubs 2025 Best Moments

A little more bite to it perhaps it's off the club a dryer and Matt Shaw that's his first big league hit save that baseball. You don't think so. I don't know. That might be anyone looking up on the scoreboard. There are no errors listed. There it is. Congratulations on your first big league knock Matt. To to hit well right field Kyle Tucker first homer as a cub and they have the lead. It is three one no doubter to the right for number 30. You know it's just a matter of time and we talk about the irrelevance of spring training statistics and performance and he really scuffled throughout spring training. But the lights are on. It's time to go and he's going a new pitcher into the game is Jalen Beeks the lefty. So Craig Council summons the right hand hitter and Shaw puts a charge into one left field back. First big league homer for Matt Shaw off the bench he jumps on the first pitch as he circles the bases. Big smile and it is for one. That has to feel great. Yeah. Come off that bench swinging big big smile. The one to bounce Swanson will pick it up and now racing at Garrett Hampson. He's got a lot of play. Unbelievable Gadsby Swanson with a heads up play and a Cubs finish it off. Just spectacular. There is no chance to get Carroll at first base eyes immediately go to the runner who takes the aggressive turnaround third and just spectacular work from Gadsby Swanson. Oh my goodness. What a way to end a ball game. Carson Kelly this is his last chance you would think of getting a cycle center field going back. Liddy it's off the wall racing towards. Go go go go go go go go go. We got a cycle. Take that for grace. You're running like a river cat and they want the ball and dugout is going bonkers. Oh brother that was awesome. First cycle since Mark Grace comes from the catcher Carson Kelly. That's a home run from Kyle Tucker his fourth straight game. He's never done that before in his career. The Cubs have a four to lead and there was no doubt about it. Wow. J.D. I could get used to watching this guy. Yeah boy it's fun. You talk about the guy that's absolutely locked in. He did not do much at all in spring training. In the year right field Butler back back some more. Oh it's gone into the bullpen the opposite way. Say Suzuki his second of the day. And the Cubs now lead it six to two. It's an equal opportunity to say Suzuki he's hitting home runs to all parts of the ballpark. He goes Oppo and something you rarely see from Suzuki really rare. Playing in his one thousand career game. Glenn Fielder number eight. Ian. This guy's put together a really fine career you might say slightly underrated but a thousand career games is no small thing a little better than ninety eight miles per hour. Slice the other way towards the wall. What a can't leave a ball. That's how you win three straight gold gloves. I mean the full way out towards the wall and steals extra bases right there from sheets. Yeah this is just spectacular. Highlight real stuff. We seem to make a lot of great plays out there. So this might be the best. Why not get it into the bullpen line drive base hit right field and gauge Workman with his first major league hit. No apologies necessary at all. Hopefully a long story career for gauge Tater Workman gets into another one since Edman back. He's watching it land in the stands. What a night for Pete Crowe Armstrong. And his family on the about face from the witch who was bewitched by Pete Crowe Armstrong second of the night. How about that. Bob standing right now applauding. Don't blame him one bit. Great opportunity for Ian Hatt Cubs lead it to one but the bases are loaded in one hour. Ian Hatt turns around the floor receiver and unloads them and just like that the Cubs have a six one lead right down the middle of the plate. Ian Hatt jumped all over it and Ian obviously up to the challenge. His fifth career Grand Slam. Here we go. Carson Kelly have a day a towering homer to left the three run Jack. He goes deep for the second time and they're within one. We thought we'd have a high scoring game today but there's five six in this game. Pitchers were in control but it has gotten chaotic here towards the end. Here's Tucker. Twelve eleven. Bedlam the crowd that was booing moments ago and losing their minds. Anybody want to pitch today. And get skip. I'll take the day off. And no doubt from Tucker. That's it. What did one. It's a ten nine game to expect the player to come through every single time he comes up. That's the sense you get with Tucker comes down to their final up to Miguel Amaya. Ten nine Cubs trail bottom nine two outs a swing and a drive left center field and deep back Poseidon. It's got a chance. It's gone. It's a home run. The ball game is tied. Miguel Amaya has Homer to the basket and left center. Listen to this place. Pop up Miguel Amaya. It's ten to ten. Ten ten bottom ten. Brouhaha at second represents a potential game winning run at ground ball into right field for a base hit Brouhaha routes third throw home it's late. Cubs win Cubs win Cubs win the ball game in half a game winning single. Well we saw an unbelievable game against Arizona last Friday in its own way. This one was just as remarkable one for the memory books. What a great win for the Cubs tonight. Something this Cubs team has taken hold of as he swings and misses and with that strikeout Jamison Tyon joins the one thousand strikeout club in his career and very consistent to who Jamison Tyon has been this year. Early on he throws the ball. Say drills it left fielded deep it is back in it is gone. Say it says see you for the second time today. This one a two run blast say a red hot. So are the Cubs are up five to two and the last time he got a three oh fastball this time it's a little slide ball look like stayed up a little bit on the inner half and a big time response from say I hear today. As Bush lives. It's poured on Cade Horton is a lively fastball as you've seen ninety five plus little cut on it slider curve balls next secondary pitches he's got to attack. He does on the outside edge to strike out Nimmo and a big family contingent is here cheering on Horton who has his first major league strikeout. And now the birthday boy goes has been sensational in these spots. He's headed to center field. He's coming in to score Bruins sprinting for third. Nico Horner and his twenty eighth birthday RBI single and the Cubs are in a one. Who pinch hit in the seven delivered a tough at bat and was able to coach the walk. Here comes to turn the two to. Moisei by a sterile first major league knock and it produces a run. That's what I'm talking about right there. Yeah Mom that is awesome. A liner to right center. And it's twelve three. I love it. The Cubs have rallied to take it up one lead. Center field P.C.A. drifting back to make the catch. Holy cow Rick Wall and I mean that's number one everybody. And he is special. Take a look not an easy play. Pitch Pete skies it right field Benson at the track the wall. If it's fair it's good. It is. Grand Slam Pete Crow Armstrong and P.C.A. playing like MVP. What a beast. Second of the game he's driven in six it is eight to six Cubs. What a performance by P.C.A. Yet again my goodness. So Reese McGuire today first at bat with the Cubs a home run in the second if you're a hitter and you're looking away that's a tough pitch to do anything with McGuire out to right Benson back. He did it again kidding me. It's the Reese McGuire game first game with the Cubs two homers brand new ballgame. We're tied at eight Cubs eight Reds eight in the eighth. Nobody out. If the Cubs come all the way back and win this one it will be their biggest comeback win of the year. Seah smokes it left field it's gone. Ron Seah Suzuki fourteenth of the year cardiac Cubs come all the way back there alone and Levin eight birdies the guy that matters. The celebration. And we sing this song to to center field Pete Armstrong Armstrong. How about that play diving catch by P.C.A. and left center. Well you wanted to know what the catch of the game was. There it is right there. That is a great play by Pete Armstrong on a line drive that had base hit written all over it. Suzuki second of the day and the Cubs have opened up a six one lead a no doubter from Seah. And I'm playing homerun Derby here today and I'm not lying. No days it'd be a jeopardy running out of baseball's five home runs ties the Cubs season high at Suzuki now it's 16 of them. For three with a pair of strikeouts you have my permission to hit a homerun if you want high fly ball left field. There it goes in half has tied it up on no doubter to left and half takes Strum out to two here in the eight. What a huge swing in the bat for Ian Hatt power numbers are down. So Hatt with the homer the Cubs have drawn even four hundred twenty four feet homerun number five high fly ball right field this one back it's got a chance and that one is gone. Nice piece of hitting in half a two run blast and it's five for his second of the night. You're talking earlier about Ian Hatt the low league average in terms of OPS but that won't be the case for long if he keeps this up. So good to see him doing damage from this side of the plate and he gets those hands pulled in and lifts that one out of here. It comes a three to. Be Swanson halfway up bleachers Dansby Swanson gives the Cubs the lead two to one over the pirates here in the sixth inning now the Cubs are in need of a big swing in the bat and Dansby comes up with a big one here with two outs out of three to pitch and he crunches one. Here it comes line drive base hit to right Cubs win the ball game. Bruheim scores Ian Hatt walks it off as the Cubs beat the pirates three to two in ten big swing in the bat for the Cubs Bettner ahead in the count oh and two and then hangs a split finger in the zone about mid thigh and it hits a bolt past the drawn in infield on the right side Cubs win Cubs win. Lying towards left center field he collapsed. Look where he finishes up he's in straight away in left field. As spectacular a play as you will see. Look out like a fly trap. Oh oh we're going to do it. Don't do it. No God. Oh God. Oh and I'm in khakis. Wow. I will not give it up. Somebody's got some explaining to do. Freely. Oh they brought him back. He's back the hero. He's comes back a hero. That's a good move. Can't kick him out. Get it today. I say again somebody might get three here today and have well on his way. Say again. Sam says. Sia second of the day 20th of the year. Cubs are right back in this one. It's a five four game. And now Matt Shaw has a chance to be a hero. Back some more reaches out and he makes the catch. Porter will tag Hubs with Shaw Winsley and the Cubs continue to roll. Nico Horner moved up Michael Bush and then Shaw put a charge into that one. He knew it. Yeah he did. You're the Cubs to put contact in four pitches or less. Here's some contact from Mason went out to the. But I tell you when can he not go get it. The jump off the bat the speed the timing of the dive. Absolutely excellent. He's fun to watch. This is impacting the joy that he played with his father. You hope to get World Star break. Wayne his kids a star. He called it. I'm a man I can make when I was wrong not saying he wasn't going to be a star but you called it last year man. Wow. You're going to see this more. There's a. Left center field pretty deep. Back for his new ball in the history of the Chicago Cubs. That today was a historic one. An eight homer game for the Cubs for a franchise that dates back all the way to the beginning of the National League in 1876. They have broken their all time single game home run record and Michael Bush has hit three of them. I fly ball towards the left field corner that one back in and it's gone. Justin Turner a touch of all milestone career number two hundred to give the Cubs fans something to cheer about as they rise to celebrate J.T. Congrats to J.T. The Savage fires swing and a high fly ball well struck right field that's back and it's gone. He's done it again. Pete Cole Armstrong his second at the end of the day and it is all comes here in Minneapolis seven one at the P.C.A. chance here in Minnesota pitch in for a strike to Cody Bellinger who's homered not once but twice. Drilled the right field Tucker back back some more jumps. And he caught it a little pay back. So it wasn't P.C.A. It was Kyle Tucker and he robs Bellinger of what would have been his third homer. It would have been his first three homer game of his career. Great grab by Tucker and they get the lefty Matthew Boyd third best earned run average a major league baseball one to swing and a miss struck him out and a good time for the punch out career strikeout number one thousand and Boyd gets Cheery Cheerio Cheerio congratulations Matthew Boyd a nice milestone and there is a ball being authenticated. Turner to center Adams back at the wall it's good. What a moment for Justin Turner first pitch he sees he delivers the game winner. It started with a Sunday fun day on the north side and it ends with a walk off winner at Wrigley. Sing it. Tick Rich takes over Austin Hayes the D.H. at the plate righty righty matchup and the first pitch is called strike and here's the 0 1 big swing and a foul at the plate swing and a miss and Kittredge gets Hayes well done there by Carson Kelly presenting that last pitch swing and a miss struck him out Kittredge back to back strikeouts and there's two away there's Stevenson and that one in for a strike. So Kittredge has come in and he's just pouring it over swing and a miss. J.D. is a pitch from an immaculate inning you to strike him out. He strikes out the side Kittredge bounces back from last night outstanding work the immaculate inning so they'll keep that baseball and some history for the kid from left center field it's back Casey first major league homer out to left center field and the Cubs lead at six four mighty Casey has delivered man what a smooth swing that was big strong kid a little flick of the wrist looking for a spark in one case he has delivered. Pete out to right Joe Adel back to the welcome home P.C.A. Go ahead solo shot in the ninth P.C.A. for him and he unloads at the most opportune time and no doubter hired to right center Joe Adel back Sam Mateo Del Cielo who jumps and it hits off the scoreboard and gone. Grant slam Reese McGuire touch them all seventh of the year it is six to nothing Cubs. Big swing in the bat here from Reese McGuire to open this thing up in this home run. What Oh Tucker again deep right field Adel to the wall. It is good. Tuck multi home run game to run home run in the third and now a three run shot in the six it is ten to nothing Cubs. Oh baby fly ball center field Doyle back back some more near the wall. Dansby Swanson is second to the night and it's ten three. Oh boy. They might have locked up that toast to the game right there. Swing and a high fly ball drill center field Doyle going back at the track at the wall. Jeff has tied it up with one swing of the bat five and had many chances from the right side here lately and he unloads first pitch one hundred and six point seven miles per hour off the bat and the Cubs faithful here are loving it. By a drive left field Carson Kelly to run homer we're tied six six that has to feel great. He had the homer since the 21st of July and his last extra base hit was the twenty third July Carson Kelly the home run and six six. So Kelly with the huge to run homer ready a fire swing and a lighter down the left side of all. Cubs win Carson Kelly one again Cubs walk it off a celebrate. What a win Carson Franklin Kelly Carson Kelly second in the day. Some insurance in the eight and the Cubs lead three one. Carson Kelly. Fifteen and sixteen here this afternoon. Give it a look at the back. Enjoy a leisurely Sunday afternoon jog in half getting loose in the outfield. And when he was done he takes the baseball and he throws it to Tony. He is out there and hanging out with friends saying what's up to people and just you know mixing and mingling out there in the bleachers. So amazing up here today for the Cubs and Asteros his first big league home run. What a moment out one strike away from the postseason. Eight four Cubs lead the Pirates bottom of the ninth two outs in the air left field. There's half. He's got it. Ball game. The Cubs are headed to the postseason for the first time since twenty twenty. The Cubs are going to the playoffs and fittingly enough it ends in the hands of Ian Hatt. The kid from Pittsburgh the longest tenured Chicago athlete with a huge day and the Cubs back in the playoffs. The Cubs are going to be a postseason team here in twenty twenty five and the celebration will begin. It's kind of subdued at the moment. Players on the field congratulating one another. The other Cubs kind of respectful of the guys in the game right now. But now the Cubs start coming out of the dugout manager Craig Council and his staff and all of the ballplayers congratulating one another. This is always the goal run when you start the year way back in spring training to be successful enough to extend your season beyond game one one sixty two. And it's not even. Drill to learn just like that it's eight five second of the night for Sam to go on so long without going deep he gets two here tonight. First one on change up this time that breaking ball ultimately betrays McClain. This is hammered right for the July took him deep twice and PCA goes yard off Michaelis for the fifth time in his career. Wow. PCA will go through the gauntlet of love down there in the Cubs dugout and welcome to the 30 thirty club. Say awaits Roy Croft. Say Suzuki's got the hot two homers last night a grand slam here today and it is all Cubs number thirty for say a number four today for the Cubs come with the bases loaded a grand slam for say Suzuki. They're looking for some positive signs as we head to the postseason. The last two games for him. Michael Bush drives that one out towards left center field. Second of the day Bush whacked again. My goodness. Ten total bases for Michael here. We're in the fifth inning home run double home run this time it goes the other way with it as he did with his double last time. Michael Bush treating the Cardinals like he can have treats the Cincinnati Reds and this one nothing game Padres lead the Cubs game one bested three in the wild card. Rips it through. Sunshine and Suzuki ties the score in game one of the wild card series. One of the few mistakes Nick Pivetta has made today. And this is what the Cubs do man. Fifty four more home runs this year than what they hit last year. The center field Merrill is back sheets at the wall. This one's gone. The Cubs smash out of their slumber with back to back home runs in the fifth Suzuki and Kelly put Chicago in the lead. A postseason roar we haven't heard in Wrigley for a long time now as Carson Kelly puts the Cubs on top. Leighton since the second for that swing thing Chicago at thirty four in the regular season. But by the way two strikes see you later. First pitch swinging. In the center. Pete Armstrong on a three hit day. The Chicago Cubs are the National League Division Series Cubs and Brewers on Saturday. The script writes itself. And Bush with a fly ball deep to right field way back there that ball is gone. Bush continues his late season assault a lead off homer for the Cubs in Game 1. He had thirty four home runs during the regular season and he got the count in his favor to one saw another four seam fastball and was able to get on top of it a bomb the right field to start this series. Bush with a drive right field Freelich goes back to the track to the wall to Bush a lead off bomb once again in a postseason where Chicago has not seen reliable offense Michael Bush delivers. There have been fireworks early in every game of this series. Happ with a drive right field way back there more first inning fireworks. Ian Happ takes Freddy Peralta deep for the second time in the series and the Cubs lead three nothing. The most senior of the Cubbies comes through in a big moment. That four seam fastball floated right in the middle of the plate. I said the ball had to be crushed to right field that's crushed saying Suzuki will lead off the second inning. The right center from Sears Suzuki way back and not punch counter punch. Chicago has tied it with one swing to say Suzuki is the National League player of the week and the last week of the season. He has taken that red hot and brought it right to the postseason second pitch. He sees the Miserowski the home run third homer of the postseason.