Bleed Cubbie Blue · Aug 21, 2022
Cubs 6, Brewers 5: Willson Contreras walks it off!
It took a 41-minute rain delay, three hours and 51 minutes of baseball and two extra innings, but the Cubs won their fifth straight game Saturday afternoon at Wrigley Field, 6-5 over the Brewers, when Willson Contreras dumped a single into right field in the bottom of the 11th. Not only was it the Cubs’ fifth straight victory, it was their fourth straight by one run, improving their once-poor record in one-run games to 18-22.
Let’s rewind to the beginning of this busy afternoon. It rained fairly hard at Wrigley for about an hour before the game began, and the grounds crew got the field ready fairly quickly for the 2 p.m. starting time, so the delay wasn’t too long.