Ian Happ delivers walk-off single in 10th inning to cap rally in Cubs’ 11-10 victory against Dodgers

A part of the way in which up the first-base line, Ian Happ pointed throughout the diamond at Vidal Brujan, who was rounding third and heading house. Happ already knew how the sport was going to finish.

‘‘You hit that ball, you know he’s going to attain,’’ Happ mentioned after the Cubs’ 11-10 victory in 10 innings Tuesday towards the Dodgers. ‘‘It’s on the bottom the entire method, so he received a great break. The man flies. It was assured he was going to make it.’’

Happ delivered the successful hit, a floor ball by way of the precise aspect of the infield, to cap a dramatic back-and-forth with the Cubs’ first walk-off victory of the season.

‘‘First-base coach [Jose Javier] was yelling at me to get to second,’’ Happ mentioned. ‘‘I was too excited.’’

His teammates streamed out of the dugout and met him at first.

‘‘It’s a extremely good group,’’ Happ mentioned. ‘‘Good guys. They work really hard. We all care about each other. And so to have that’s actually cool. And a extremely cool second at Wrigley.’’

The sport featured three comebacks. The primary got here from the Cubs, who wiped away the Dodgers’ three-run lead within the first with a five-run rally within the backside of the inning.

The second got here from the Dodgers, who authored a five-run rally within the seventh to take a 10-7 lead

The third got here from the Cubs, who punched again with a two-run house run by Kyle Tucker within the eighth that minimize their deficit to 10-9 and set the stage for Miguel Amaya to ship a tying solo homer within the ninth to ship the sport to additional innings.

The Cubs improved to 3-3 towards the Dodgers this season with yet one more recreation to play on Wednesday.

‘‘We’ve performed some good groups, however we’ve been constant towards everyone,’’ Happ mentioned. ‘‘No matter the opponent, the ability to stay in games, offense scoring runs late, adding on, doing our job, we’ve carried out it towards everyone and proceed to try this.’’

Dodgers go lengthy vs. Imanaga

All 5 runs Cubs left-hander Shota Imanaga allowed got here on homers: a three-run blast by Tommy Edman within the first, a solo shot by Andy Pages within the second and a solo blast by Will Smith within the sixth. The three homers allowed had been a season excessive for Imanaga and matched his profession excessive.

Three of the 5 runs had been thought of unearned due to an error by third baseman Gage Workman on the primary play of the sport. He muffed a one-hopper off the bat of Shohei Ohtani, and Edman ultimately homered with two outs.

Imanaga threw a season-high 101 pitches. He solely had reached the 100-pitch mark three different occasions in his major-league profession.

Assad exits rehab begin

Cubs right-hander Javier Assad left his rehab begin with Triple-A Iowa after 4 innings Tuesday. In keeping with Iowa broadcaster Jason Kempf, Assad grabbed his aspect whereas warming up for the fifth inning and left the sphere.

Assad, who has been on the injured listing all season after straining his left indirect main as much as spring coaching, was two begins into his rehab project. The Cubs incessantly have talked about him as a part of their plan to climate the lack of left-hander Justin Steele to season-ending surgical procedure on his pitching arm.

The Cubs designated Gave Workman for assignment as they continue to tinker with the third-base position group.

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The Cubs selected him from Triple-A in a series of roster moves Wednesday.

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There’s a conceit among some around baseball that managers don’t have much impact on winning and losing. Clearly, however, the Dodgers and especially the Cubs have taken the opposite position.

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