Raise your hand if you had Yankees sweeping the Cubs at Wrigley. I certainly didn’t, but they went and did it. This game started as a nice pitching duel for the first six innings. The Yankee offense, took a 4-1 lead into the ninth and, of course, Chapman blew it. After another game’s worth of innings, New York finally took another lead at the top of the 18th and thankfully closed the game out. The Yankees are now 20-9, good for a .690 winning percentage. It’s (super way past) Sunday night so let’s do it bullet-point style.
- Could have been more: Jacoby Ellsbury led off the game with a clean single to right… and then got picked off by Cubs catcher Willson Contreras.