Cubs non-homer multi-run walkoff wins: August 20, 2017

Caylor Arnold-USA TODAY Sports I didn’t realize when I researched this series that I had written up this very game as part of a different series during baseball’s hiatus last spring.

In reading over that article, I didn’t find anything I wrote just five months ago that I felt I could re-write better now.

So, I will commend you to reading that one for a description of how Alex Avila’s two-run single off Blue Jays closer Roberto Osuna won the game over the Jays 5-4 and completed a series sweep.

Here, though, is how the 10th inning of that game set up before Avila’s hit:

Osuna struck out Kyle Schwarber, but Schwarber reached on a wild pitch. Ben Zobrist singled Schwarber to third, and a second…