Brewers vs. Cubs Game Highlights (8-19-25) - MLB Highlights

We welcome you from Wrigleyville the north side of Chicago. We've got a double header today the Brewers and the Cubs and the pitching matchup is a good one to get us started. Matthew Boyd on the mound. What a year he's put together. He's fourth in the NL seven in the majors in E.R.A. He's nine and oh with a one seven five E.R.A. So Matthew Boyd to face Sal Freilich to the right side Castro takes it in one up and one down. Durbin up there Hacken. Drive left field half his back there makes the catch to up and to down is William Contreras. Now get on the ground to shorts once it takes in the Rose the first and Boyd able to get him one two three no score. Chad Patrick gets to work against this Cubs offense. Back on June the 17th the Cubs beat him as he worked five innings one up and one down in the fly ball to center. Ian did not play in the series opener. There's a swing and a drive right center field on the run Lockridge and Freilich. That ball is going to be off the fence. Pat just missed a home run and he pulls in at second with a standing double landed in the Vines maybe four or five feet below the basket in deep right center field. The Cubs have a scoring chance. Cubs have a man at second with one away. Here's a Suzuki now say a first pitch swinging it fouls it back. Nice grab sir. Well done to the dirt kicks away from Contreras over to third goes happen that changes the complexion of this at bat entirely outside and that's ball for so say Suzuki will take his base and they're at the corners for Pete Crow Armstrong as a ground ball third got a chance at the plate. Durbin comes home the tag in time contact play was on half is just thrown out for the second out of the inning. And now it's Willie Castro now just trying to drive in the game's first run Gordon's first backing up one Castro Bostick gets away and everybody's safe. So they're loaded up. Patrick has made a lot of pitches in this inning. Owen Casey had his first big league base hit yesterday. Let's see if he can get his first big league RBI. Cubs will try and take the lead here. Suzuki is in P.C.A. on his heels Castro the third Casey it's a two run single and Owen has given the Cubs the lead. A sweet redemption this time with the bases juiced he delivers that's a big swing in the back to draw first blood here and he drops the head on this pitch and smokes it into right field. First time in nine games as Cubs score in the first and it's a crooked number. The Cubs have the lead Christian Yelich will lead things off against Matthew Boyd. The one to pitch swing and a miss struck him out. Yelich is gone Andrew Vaughn one for four three and Owen Vaughn in the pitch his way outside for ball for the Brewers had their first base runner. So Collins gets his first start since becoming a new dad. That's a ball. Collins draws the wall. He's got a terrific eye back to back walks and suddenly the Brewers in business here with one away and here comes Bryce Turing a little dribbler to first up with it is Bush steps on the bag and the runners advance two down. Here is Brandon Lockridge with minutes second and third. So this is a big at bat. Now Boyd at forty one pitches Boyd pitch number 10 Lockridge takes a ball. What an at bat Brandon Lockridge draws the third walk in the Brewers all on the top rail fully engaged here early. And now it's Joey Ortiz with the bases loaded in two outs. Popped up. And Boyd gets out of it. The Brewers walk away empty handed. So it's the second time Suzuki has walked in and there's a one out base runner for the Cubs here. So here's Pete Crow Armstrong. Just like that Cubs got a little rally opportunity second and third just one out. Here's Castro now second and third one out. Swing and a high fly ball. Castro five nothing Cubs and Willie's fired up. That's been a tough go for Willie. Putting on that Cubs uniform that has to feel awfully good. He's fired up his first as a Cubs and the Cubs have a five to nothing lead here in the third inning. Back to thirty two pitches to get through the second inning but just ten three up three down in the third. And here's Yelich and Yelich sends it high and deep to right. This one is way back there off the scoreboard. Christian Yelich with a tape measure shot down the right field line and right away the Brewers get one of them back. You talk about chipping away. That's one way to do it. And it is five to one in the top of the fifth. Cubs leaving the Brewers five to one. Lockridge shoots one into right center field that ball's hit well. It is off the wall and the speedy Lockridge into second base with a double. Brewers are getting their licks in against Matthew Boyd. Good start to the fifth Ortiz fly ball to right. It's going to be deep enough to advance Lockridge and Ortiz with a positive at bat. Try and cash in this run from third base. They make it a three run ball game and Sal Freelich hits and Freelich rifles one into the gap right center for Armstrong cuts it off. It's going to hold Freelich to a single but it's an RBI single at that. And the Brewers are within three. Here they come five to two Cubs Andrew Vaughn leads off for Milwaukee against the Cubs starter Matthew Boyd and he sends out one deep in the left center and Andrew Vaughn into the Ivy it goes he gets buried in the Ivy. That'll be an automatic double leadoff double in the sixth for Andrew Vaughn Isaac Collins field to swing and a miss third strikeout for Boyd here this afternoon. It's a one down and it's Bryce Turang Turang up the middle and a base hit. Vaughn's going to wind it up and he will score Bryce Turang an RBI single three unanswered runs for the Brew crew. It is five to three now and do it. Boyd here comes Greg the afternoon is over for Matthew Boyd and big Brad Keller will come in. Brad Keller comes out of the bullpen for the 52nd time two point four eight E.R.A. for the big heart throwing righty. Here's Blake Perkins. Swing and a miss struck him out and Perkins is gone. Two outs man at first. Ball for it's the last thing he wanted to do. Turang in the scoring position Ortiz draws the walk and now it's Freilich. He had an RBI single back in the fifth inning. The Brewers need a big two out hit from Sal Freilich. Keller deals Freilich turns on and a base hit in the right. On his way throw comes to Turang scores the run and it's second and third for the Brewers. They are within a run. Brewers had one hit through the first four innings. They've got six hits in the last two innings. Here is Durbin now five four comes. Gets Durbin and a Cubs still lead it by a run Castro is out number one Casey a big knock here today is to run single in the first made it to nothing. One left center field it's back Casey first major league homer out to left center field and the Cubs lead it six four mighty Casey has delivered man what a smooth swing that was that has to feel great. Matt Shaw will lead off the Cubs seventh inning first ball swinging Matt Shaw fly ball deep left center and it is going to be caught. Blake Perkins caught it crashing up against the wall and his teammate Collins Perkins still comes out of the Ivy with it. That is a great catch. Top nine Cubs six Brewers for Daniel Palencia has saved 16 of the 18 opportunities. Anthony Sigler will lead off. One away and top of the order in South Freeland. Here's a three one. And ball four and that'll bring the tying run to the plate. Urban old for four Durbin in the right field a base hit. Sound Freeland around second will stop there. How about the two strike hitting Caleb Durbin a single to right two minute board with one out and now the tying run is at first the go ahead run coming to the plate. Guess who's coming up. William Contreras who's been in this spot on this road trip to one out Cubs by two. And Ford's third shot up with it the second one of the first Cubs win. Well that was much needed and hard fought Cubs come away with a nice W here and gave one of this doubleheader.