Cub Tracks’ bearded in the Phillies’ lair

Kyle Ross-Imagn ImagesThe going is weird. Cub Tracks™ turned pro a long time ago. Cub Tracks™. Where the great ones run away.

Matthew Boyd and Zack Wheeler hooked up in a battle of veterans who peaked post-30, and the results were much as expected. Low-scoring, well-pitched contest. The Phillies are a good team. They will beat you if you let them.

Tucker’s solo homer.

Don’t run on Tucker.

The King played well. The Phillies dropped a deuce on the Cubs but Ian Happ answered back with a solo homer of his own, deep into the stands, as the Phillies made a second cheese mistake.

Ian Happ’s deep fly. Counsell’s two for two.

The score stayed that way until PCA smoked a liner into the right-field corner…