Cubs vs. Cardinals Game Highlights (7/30/26) | MLB Highlights

A beautiful day for a series split as the Cardinals host the Cubs. It's game four and baseball's greatest rivalry and all the fun about to start here at Busch Stadium. What a difference one swing of the bat can make the Cardinals a walk off winner in game three. Andre Pallante you want to talk about somebody that has taken advantage of twenty twenty six across the board. The numbers have been so much better for Andre Pallante. Really good command with the slider and the knuckle curve last time out against the Reds big bro Armstrong just one hit in the series and he made it count in the 10th inning a two run homer up Luis Gastelum and P.C.A. strikes out again. Good start for Pallante one up and one down. That's a seven strikeout for P.C.A. in 13 trips to the plate in the series. Here's Seah Suzuki and swing and a miss that went in the dirt and the flip to first is on target to up to down be a strikeout for Andre Pallante. And it brings up Michael Bush Bush Wax one and to write his first seven at bats against Pallante he was seven for seven and then he made a couple outs. So he's now what eight percent of the fourth Alex Bregman Bregman for the series is eight for 14. He has four doubles four runs scored a homer four runs batted in. The Cardinals have struck him out twice long on O'Day jammed him in a ground ball weekly hit to short when flips the weather hole to take care of Bush coming down six four on the first play. It's Javier Assad Brad off to a great start and now the Jamison Tyone has been DFA. It's Assad who gets a turn in the rotation kind of a valuable piece. Javier Assad has been one of those swing guys here for the last couple of seasons for the Cubbies Assad an interesting pitcher John. Seventy eight percent fastball. When I say fastballs I mean for Seamore sinker and cutter but really just a low number of change ups and breaking pitches by comparison to most pitchers in the game today. Assad on his birthday has a one two three opening inning on a beautiful day at Busch Stadium and Palante get this game through six. That would be nice to see. He's been pretty consistent in that regard. What a turnaround from last season. Now he was certainly lights out in his last start seven scoreless against Sensi two hits one walk. He told me the curveball was the difference maker. He said landing that curveball with two strikes or to get a heading counts. It's something he's been working on for the last month putting the curveball in better location three ground ball outs for Andre Palante in the second the Cardinals come up no score ball for back to back walks and Assad wasn't happy with his command in the first inning. Might not be happy so far today. He's thrown twenty nine now 30 pitches and 15 strikes 15 out of the zone and that's going to bring a visit from Tommy out of the Cardinals have two on with one out and Brian Torres Torres is five for his last 10 but four runs batted in. The base hit the other way. Here comes Newport around third. They're going to wave him home. The throw is late. Torres does scoop something to left field and opposite field single and after the visit the Cardinals break through first. Chip how about this. How about a little two strike approach right here. Take a look at the pitch. It's a decent one here from Javier Assad on his birthday. But the present goes the way of Torres short in the stroke easy down to it right through the wide open left side being aggressive early. You like that. Put a little pressure on the Cubbies. That's the way to do it right there. That's going to be caught by Conforto win tags and advances to third base first and third with two outs. And now Nathan Church Batch gets a swing and miss right there at a heater at ninety five. But the Cardinals do take the lead with a run on one hit and a lead off single. That's the second hit for the Cubs so far here this afternoon. Dansby Swanson's next Swanson at two eighteen. He has 16 homers and sixty one runs batted in. He's been racking up ground ball outs. He's got four of them so he can get two for the price of one here from Swanson ground ball left side. Blaze has it asking you to see it's double play five four three. Well this is a vintage Andre Pallante right now. Everything has been very difficult to square up in a nice turn right there by this young man. That was really fun to watch. That was kind of an old fashioned turn at second base line drive fair ball right field line kicks off the sidewall. PCA cruises into second and he's got a two out double. No need to steal second base and you get there with one swing of the bat. Ninety nine point three miles per hour down the right field line Suzuki. I don't think he picked the ball up very well against Pallante and at first at Bat-Patton see he has a little better luck this at bat and that's grounded up the middle. He's come in covering some ground. He's got it and he throws him out. Nice play by Mason and another ground ball induced by Andre Pallante ends the top of the third weather hole. Gone looking at that one big swing and then kind of went into the tank mode and it's just a perfect pitch there. And this one poked into center field back to back hits on back to back pitches Burleson and the Cardinals back in action in the third inning to a board with one man out. And it brings up Yvonne Herrera Fragment to second one and Gordon Horner the turn in time for a double play. So double plays and both threats for the Cubs and Cardinals in the third one out in the fourth inning. Here is Bregman batting Bregman hit into a fielder's choice his first time up the middle of the base hit and Bregman out towards left center. He's going to head for second. Here's the throw and Alex has a double. We'll take that double play out of play and watch him get out of the box here. Solid shot through the infield headed towards the gap in left center busted it down the line realizing he had a shot at two with one away Ian Hap will try to drive in the tying run fly ball right field going back his new bar near the wall and he makes the catch and just missed it. Bregman on the throw gets away here comes Alex. Great base running he tags on the fly ball the throw into the infield gets away. And the Cubs steal a run. Just great hustle all the way around the hustle double to get things started. Newport I think thought this was the third out of the inning after he makes the catch. There's no urgency to get this ball back in and then it's a little high mishandled in the middle of the diamond. Bregman never takes his eye off the ball and steals a run. Torres is two for two and he looks over to the Cardinals bench as he heads over to first base wind down the second and plays Jordan with another opportunity to do some damage. He flied out his first time to pitch out of jams with that sinker or good downward slider and get a ground ball see if he can get one here. Here's a bouncer slowly hit to a charging Swanson gloves it quick throw to first to get him. Nice play by Dansby. He knew he only had one and made the play to first runners advanced the second and third however and now two down and Nathan Church for the big at bat coming up swing and a miss strike three off speed pitch got him no runs for the Redbirds. We go to the fifth inning right right over Niko's head at second. So Weatherholt will lead off the fifth to the base in his first hit of the ball game being tied at one runner goes pitch low dugout and ball dropped. They had him beat. JJ gets a break. Warner couldn't hang on. He's still perfect. Twelve for twelve and stolen bases strike three called on the outside corner. No challenge from Walker. It was kind of a delayed call by Tyler Jones but that to Seymour clips the corner. He's an I six strikeouts for Assad. Ninety six pitching change we'll see. Can the Cardinals get to this bullpen of the Cubbies. Rolison we saw him in game one of the series two thirds of an inning struck out a pair and that's high for a ball for first and second one out for Yvonne Herrera. Fly ball left field at right there to left handed batting Newt Barre coming up. Let's see if Rolison can retire him and get out of this jam swinging and a miss strike three and Rolison gets the Cubs out of this fifth inning. Good pitch right on the outside corner. Game is tied at one through five two down. Nobody on Blaise Jordan the batter Blaise has flied out to right. He's grounded out to short fly ball right field. That's pretty well hit. There's the second tag Swanson to quit. Can Fordo a gorgeous throw what a play by Can Fordo and a great decoy move by Dansby Swanson at shortstop covering second base Pallante saw twenty seven batters in this game Brad. Thirteen of them retired on the ground. Another outstanding performance for Andre in his twenty first start of the year. This is a crazy tough lineup. He was able to navigate it. What a job by Andre Pallante. That's back to back fantastic starts for him. Responsible for Dansby Swanson at first base but he turns things over to George Soriano. Gardner's right hander has also had a breakout season from the St. Louis bullpen. As we resume action running and stealing second base is Dansby Swanson. He had a very big jump. He stole it much more on the pitcher than he did on the throw by the catcher Herrera. Swing and a miss. It was the fastball ninety seven and P.C.A. was not looking for the express. He was not. And this is a great one at the top of the zone. And that's what makes Soriano so effective. You know how good the changeup is especially the lefty. And that's ball for gets to the backstop Swanson will advance 90 feet and the runners are at first to third and it will bring up Michael Bush and he has a chance to give the Cubs the lead right now. You know he's been very aggressive today swinging at the first pitch line drive base hit left Swanson is in Suzuki will stop at second Michael Bush punches an RBI single to left and it's two one to hit Dave for Michael Bush and a huge one here as he goes the other way to deliver the go ahead run. And that's ball for they are loaded. The Cubs do wait you out and having kind of a rough series two for thirteen before this is a big spot if he can drive in a couple right here is grounded to the right side. Weatherholtz got it. He throws him out and Soriano does limit the damage. Cubs do get one run on the RBI single by Michael Bush one up one down back to the top to go and J.J. Weatherholtz J.J. one for three today. There's some slug J.J. Weatherholtz lefty lefty hits it to the concourse. We are tied at two. Chip the kid just keeps racking up big time moments. This one the home run is 16 of the season to tie it up against the Cubbies. What a moment right there for J.J. Now Walker comes up with the winning run Weatherholtz at first base. Walker scored the winning run in the game last night a swing and he gets into one high and deep the left but it's going to stay in the park and on the track half puts it away. And we're going to the tip and it's an extra inning situation for the second consecutive day. I've say a Suzuki as the automatic runner the Manfred man Michael Bush at the plate. Michael you got to look to drive the run in but also hook this ball to at least get Suzuki to third base on the ground. Burleson will take it himself. Suzuki to third one away tie game top of the 10th inning. The batter is Bregman. Now if you're Bregman you just got to pay this off. Bush he does his job and if you're Bregman you know you're going to try to drive this ball out of the ballpark or hit a gapper line drive base hit right field. Barebone a kick off the sidewall Bregman for second and he's in RBI double and the Cubs in the 10th with a three to lead Bregman's had a really nice series. Has he ever indeed and another big swing here. Now let's see if they can get that all important insurance talent in half the batter line drive base hit right field score replaces him at second RBI double it's for two here in the 10. Don't stop now after each double the one by Bregman and now the one by half and they almost landed in the exact same spot down the right field line. But Newport had him played perfectly for out number two Pedro Ramirez is going to pinch hit for the Cubs is grounded up the middle. It's got to be a tough play. Mason Wynn has it. He throws the first and he's got him at first just in time and the run would have scored from second base at that out not been recorded. Mason Wynn has been spectacular defensively in this game. We're off to the bottom of the 10th inning. Jacob Webb back to work in the 10th inning. He'll inherit Jordan Walker at second base and it's second nobody out line drive center field. PCA steals a hit from Burleson and almost turned it into two. There is no one better. Aaron Zabali will take over Burley right hander hopped in the air right field shallow Suzuki and PCA Pete has Cardinals are down to their last chance. Lars Neubauer is the batter. Swing and a bounce win. Well J.D. yes to quote you earlier in the day you said you know if the Cubs left here and went to and to that would kind of stink. Yep doesn't stink. No hard fought game. They had to go extra innings to get it. But a good W after a tough Al last night a very good road trip a two out of three in Pittsburgh come here to St. Louis win three out of four heading home for a weekend set with the Yankees.