The Rays beat the Cubs 4-3 to salvage the getaway game of this series, it was far from an easy win.
For six innings this looked exactly like the previous two games — narrow losses marked by no Rays offense.
Normally we could watch Eflin struggle a bit in the first — nothing disastrous but a walk, a few steals, a few hits and the Cubs were up two. Normally in 2023 meant we knew those runs were coming back. But in this series? It seemed far less likely.
The Cubs starter was a guy named Justin Steele.