Another Cubs defeat? Not this time.
Not on Willson Contreras’ watch. He’s still here — confound it all — and you’ve got to hand it to the guy for his flair for the dramatic.
Contreras lined a one-out, two-run homer off Marlins reliever Dylan Florio — an ex-Cub — in the eighth inning Friday to pull out a 2-1 victory for the Cubs in the opener of a weekend series at Wrigley Field.
It was the first game at Wrigley for Contreras — and teammate Ian Happ — since the Aug. 2 trade deadline passed without the three-time All-Star being moved as the entire baseball world had assumed he would be.