The Chicago Cubs beat the St. Louis Cardinals on Friday night thanks a pitching performance that added to some already special team history.
The Chicago Cubs beat the St. Louis Cardinals on Friday night, 5-1, at Busch Stadium to move to 46-49 on the season.
With the loss, St. Louis is 48-45. In the win, the Cubs got a pristine pitching performance from longtime veteran Kyle Hendricks, who worked 7.0 strong innings. He gave up five hits and no runs. He walked one and struck out three. It's been a difficult year for Hendricks, who is now 2-7 with a 6.78 ERA. The pitching performance was a nice night for him and helped the Cubs tie a longstanding record in team history as well.
On the offensive side of things, Chicago got a double from Ian Happ and a pair of RBI from both Nico Hoerner and David Bote. It was a 13-hit performance for the Cubs, with 12 of them being singles. The two teams will rekindle their rivalry again on Saturday afternoon with first pitch coming at 2:15 p.m. ET. Hayden Wesneski will start for the Cubs and look to keep momentum going. He's 3-5 this year with a 3.67 ERA.Brady Farkas is a baseball writer for Fastball on Sports Illustrated/FanNation and the host of 'The Payoff Pitch' podcast which can be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Videos on baseball also posted to YouTube.
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