Pittsburgh Pirates at Chicago Cubs

PIT 6 — 7 CHC

Final — 2026-04-12

MVP: Brandon Lowe 2-4, 2 HR, 5 RBI, 1 BB

Chicago Cubs defeated Pittsburgh Pirates 7-6. Brandon Lowe led the way with 2-4, 2 HR, 5 RBI, 1 BB. Daniel Palencia earned the win and Jose Urquidy took the loss.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
PIT	1	4	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	6	7	1
CHC	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	2	1	7	10	0

WP Daniel Palencia (1-0)

LP Jose Urquidy (0-1)

Scoring Plays

Top 1: Cruz homered to center (422 feet). (1-0)

Top 2: Lowe homered to right center (372 feet), Ozuna scored, Horwitz scored and Griffin scored. (5-0)

Bot 3: Swanson homered to left center (391 feet). (5-1)

Bot 3: Ballesteros homered to center (427 feet). (5-2)

Top 5: Lowe homered to right center (444 feet). (6-2)

Bot 5: Bregman hit sacrifice fly to left, Hoerner scored. (6-3)

Bot 7: Bregman popped out to second, Swanson scored. (6-4)

Bot 8: Busch singled to left, Suzuki scored on error and Swanson scored on throwing error by left fielder Reynolds, Busch to second. (6-6)

Bot 9: Kelly singled to center, Kingery scored, Suzuki to second, Happ to third. (6-7)

PIT — Batting

Name	POS	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
Cruz	CF	4	1	1	1	1	1	3	1	.339	.400	.644	1.044
Lowe	2B	4	2	2	2	5	1	2	0	.245	.373	.592	.965
Reynolds	LF	4	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	.259	.343	.431	.774
O'Hearn	1B	4	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	.333	.419	.549	.968
Yorke	3B	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.344	.463	.438	.901
Ozuna	DH	4	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	.070	.167	.070	.237
Horwitz	1B	3	1	0	0	0	1	2	0	.216	.333	.243	.576
Griffin	SS	3	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	.138	.235	.172	.407
Bart	C	4	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.105	.190	.105	.295
Cook	RF	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000

CHC — Batting

Name	POS	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
Hoerner	2B	5	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	.316	.420	.491	.911
Ballesteros	DH	3	1	2	0	1	1	0	1	.294	.342	.471	.813
Bregman	3B	3	0	1	0	0	2	1	0	.213	.290	.328	.618
Happ	LF	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.192	.300	.462	.762
Suzuki	RF	3	1	0	0	0	0	2	1	.200	.385	.200	.585
Kelly	C	5	0	2	1	0	1	0	1	.308	.426	.385	.811
Crow-Armstrong	CF	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.203	.242	.271	.513
Swanson	SS	2	3	1	0	1	1	2	0	.163	.311	.306	.617
Shaw	1B	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.220	.250	.390	.640
Amaya	DH	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.238	.385	.429	.814
Busch	1B	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	.135	.233	.173	.406
Conforto	PH	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	.300	.462	.400	.862
Kingery	PR	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000

PIT — Pitching

Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	PC-ST	ERA	WHIP	Decision
Chandler	5.1	5	3	3	2	4	2	91-64	3.86	1.41
Barco	1.2	1	1	1	2	1	0	32-21	6.43	2.11
Lawrence	1.0	1	2	1	2	2	0	29-16	9.82	1.95
Urquidy	0.1	3	1	1	1	0	0	22-12	3.38	2.68	L, 0-1

CHC — Pitching

Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	PC-ST	ERA	WHIP	Decision
Taillon	6.0	6	6	6	2	10	3	102-59	4.86	1.36
Martin	1.1	1	0	0	0	2	0	19-13	0.00	0.84
Roberts	0.2	0	0	0	0	1	0	13-8	0.00	1.40
Palencia	1.0	0	0	0	1	2	0	16-9	0.00	1.38	W, 1-0

Venue: Wrigley Field, Chicago, Illinois (35,711)

Umpires: Home Plate Umpire: Alan Porter, First Base Umpire: Jim Wolf, Second Base Umpire: Roberto Ortiz, Third Base Umpire: Alex Mackay

Broadcast: MARQ | SNPT

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