Cubs' 10-game streak ends vs Dodgers
- Los Angeles beat Chicago 12-4 on Saturday, April 25, ending the Cubs’ 10-game winning streak as Roki Sasaki and a six-run fourth inning flipped the series. - The Cubs had won 10 straight after Friday’s 6-4 comeback, their longest streak since 2016, before the Dodgers answered with 12 runs and hits from every starter. - Chicago then lost Sunday 6-0 and fell to 17-11, one game behind Cincinnati in the National League Central. (espn.com)
The Dodgers ended the Cubs’ 10-game winning streak with a 12-4 win in Los Angeles on Saturday, April 25. (mlb.com) Chicago arrived in the series on its longest winning run since 2016 and pushed it to 10 games with a 6-4 comeback Friday night. Dansby Swanson hit the go-ahead two-run homer in the ninth after the Cubs erased a 4-0 deficit. (espn.com) (mlb.com) The streak ended one day later when Los Angeles scored six times in the fourth inning and rolled behind Roki Sasaki. Every Dodgers starter had at least one hit in the 12-4 win. (mlb.com) (wgntv.com) That 10-game run was Chicago’s longest since an 11-game streak from July 31 to Aug. 12, 2016. It was also the club’s longest winning streak in April since 1970. (mlb.com) The weekend turned quickly after that. The Dodgers won the Sunday finale 6-0 behind Justin Wrobleski’s six scoreless innings, and Shohei Ohtani had his first three-hit game of the season. (espn.com) (mlb.com) Wrobleski became the first Dodgers pitcher since 2009 to win his first four starts. He threw a career-high 109 pitches, allowed four hits, struck out six and walked four. (espn.com) By Monday, April 27, the Cubs were 17-11 and one game behind the first-place Reds in the National League Central. The Dodgers were 19-9, half a game behind San Diego in the National League West. (espn.com) (mlb.com) So the story is not just that Chicago’s streak stopped at 10. It is that a hot Cubs team left Los Angeles on a two-game skid after getting outscored 18-4 over the final two games of the series. (mlb.com) (espn.com) Chicago opens a series at San Diego on Monday night. Los Angeles stays home to face Miami after turning a three-game set against the Cubs into a reminder of how quickly April momentum can disappear. (mlb.com)
