Well that escalated quickly.
With the wind blowing out at Wrigley, everyone was expecting a high scoring affair, but until the bottom of the 7th, we instead got a pitcher’s duel. Keyword in that sentence was until. Once Corbin Burnes made his exit after 6 innings of stressful but effective baseball, the Diamondbacks B-bullpen made their entry to this game and the ball started jumping.
Called on to keep the game close at a 2-1 deficit, Ryne Nelson dropped his first true stinker of the season. Nelson loaded the bases before recording his first out of the day, then allowed a Grand Slam and a triple and a single to balloon the Cubs lead to 7-1 through 7 innings.