After devoting a good amount of digital ink yesterday to the need for our offense to perk up, guess what happened? Our offense came back! And it came back in grand fashion. For the first 3 innings, things were pretty calm. Julio Urias was doing pretty well in his playoff debut. His pitch count was getting high, but he was otherwise doing well. Then Ben Zobrist came up to bat in the 4th. He ended up laying down a bunt to get on base. Then another guy got on. Then an RBI happened. Then another run scored. Then Addison Russell came to the plate. So far he'd been in a pretty profound slump, but he picked right now to come out of it. He lifted a ball over the wall that was good for a 2-run homer. All of a sudden it was 4-0 Cubs. Then in the 5th, Anthony Rizzo is up. He hits a shot the clears the wall in back. A home run! But the real treat was waiting in the wings. In the 6th, we tacked on 5 more runs through a combination of good hitting and Dodger errors. By the end of it, we emerged victorious by a score of 10-2.
What this means for the series: things are now all tied up 2-2. Game 5 is tonight in LA. Lester is pitching, and while we're heading back to Chicago either way, this one determines whether we go back up 3-2 with two shots to win the pennant at home, or on the edge of elimination with Clayton Kershaw going in Game 6. Either way, this one is important. Let's win it.
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