The 2024 season has not been encouraging at all for the city of Chicago, as they were left without Major League baseball in the playoffs party, since the Cubs, with yesterday’s 5-1 defeat against the Washington Nationals, were officially left eliminated.
Meanwhile, the other team from the “Windy City”, the White Sox, have had a terrifying campaign and are nowhere near tying the record of 120 losses, which was set by the New York Mets in 1962.
With yesterday’s loss, the Cubs put their record at 79-76 and moved nine games behind the Milwaukee Brewers, when at some point during the season they were close to catching them for the lead.
Even in the middle of the week, a Cubs loss gave the division title to the Brewers.
In yesterday’s match, they were victims of MacKenzie Gore, who with a brilliant pitching effort of nine strikeouts in seven innings, was in charge of leading his team to victory.
Joey Gallo hit a three-run homer for the Nationals, who had lost their last five games.
Gore (10-12) earned its second straight victory. The 25-year-old left-hander was working on a no-hitter before Patrick Wisdom hit his eighth homer with one out in the seventh inning.
The loss fell to Kyle Hendricks (4-12), allowing four runs and nine hits in 5 1/3 innings, in what could be his last start this year at Wrigley Field.
It is worth mentioning that Washington played without All-Star shortstop CJ Abrams, who was demoted to the minors for indiscipline.
The Nationals are another of the teams that have been left without opportunities to advance to the postseason. At the moment, they have a record of 69-86 and are second to last in the Eastern Division, led by the Phillies.
IN ANOTHER eliminated duel, the Cincinnati Reds beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 7-1, with a lit Elly de la Cruz, who hit a three-run homer, drove in four runs and scored twice.
De la Cruz joined Eric Davis and Barry Larkin as the only Reds players with 25 home runs and 65 stolen bases in a season.
THE Houston ASTROS, with an artillery of 20 hits, of which three were home runs, defeated the Los Angeles Angels 10-4, who were also added to the list of eliminated teams, with just over a week left. of activity in the Majors.
Víctor Caratini, Yordan Álvarez and Kyle Tucker were responsible for hitting the home runs in Houston’s victory.
Both Álvarez and Tucker stood out by hitting four hits.
IN TEXAS, Julio Rodríguez hit his 19th home run of the season and led the Seattle Mariners to an 8-4 victory over the Rangers.
The night belonged to Rodríguez, as he led the Mariners’ offense with four hits and the same number of RBIs.
Randy Arozarena joined the party with a single and an RBI. He improved his hitting percentage to .219.
Emerson Hancock secured the victory and the defeat went to Andrew Chafin.— AP
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2024-10-02 02:26:46
