Chicago Cubs' Pete Crow-Armstrong’s decisive blast and a dormant top of the order wasted Logan Henderson's seven-inning masterpiece for the Milwaukee Brewers.
The Chicago Cubs and Milwaukee Brewers officially split a four-game series at Wrigley Field.
The Brewers had a chance to lock up the series, but in the end, they were defeated 2-1 in a game that clocked in at two hours, 12 minutes.
Chicago jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the third inning thanks to a Pete Crow-Armstrong home run, and that would be one of just three hits the Cubs had in the game.
Milwaukee had five themselves, with one of those being an Andrew Vaughn solo shot in the top half of the fourth inning.
Those two home runs would be all the scoring this game saw, and it marked the end of an incredibly tight four-game slate that puts the Brewers at 87-54 and the Cubs at 79-62.
Logan Henderson's seven-inning gem was all for nothing
The Brewers bullpen wasn't at 100% coming into this one, but they still had a few top relievers ready to go if the situation called for it.
Logan Henderson was nearly perfect as he allowed just three hits in seven innings of work, but the homer he gave up in the third inning was the difference maker.
Henderson reached 102 pitches in the game, and he struck out seven Cubs batters without walking a single one.
To prove just how few baserunners the Cubs had in this one, they only left two runners on base and were 0-for-5 on the night with a runner in scoring position.
Three players each recorded one hit for Chicago, but of course, it was the National League MVP frontrunner whose 28th home run of the year decided this game.
The top of the Brewers lineup was 0-for-15
Jake Bauers drew a walk, but other than that, the top of the Brewers lineup was a combined 0-for-15. Jackson Chourio was coming off a monstrous night, but he went 0-for-4 with a pair of strikeouts in this one. Brice Turang struck out three times himself, and William Contreras added two more strikeouts.
Together, those three combined for seven of the team's ten strikeouts. Manager Pat Murphy rolled out a lineup that saw the five through nine hitters all finish with one hit, but Vaughn's home run was the only thing of note.
Similar to the Cubs, the Brewers just didn't have much traffic on the basepaths. They ended the night with five runners left on base and were also 0-for-5 with a runner in scoring position.
