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Minnesota Twins 2 – 6 Chicago Cubs

MLB · July 18, 2026 · Final
🎧 Post-Game Report (audio)

Post-Game Recap

The Chicago Cubs took down the Minnesota Twins six to two this evening, and it wasn't particularly close once the third inning came and went.

Minnesota actually drew first blood — Michael Busch sent one four hundred and two feet to right in the opening frame to put the Cubs up one, and when Kody Clemens answered with a shot to right center in the second, it looked like the Twins might have a real fight on their hands. They were tied at one. Then everything unraveled. Still in the second, Miguel Amaya doubled to left and two Cubs came home, just like that it was three to one. The third inning finished Minnesota off — Nico Hoerner singled Seiya Suzuki home, and then Alexander Ramirez dropped a ground rule double to score another. Cubs up five to one, and the Twins never recovered.

Clemens kept his own night interesting with a second homer in the seventh, his second of the game going three hundred and ninety-one feet, but Ramirez answered right back with a single that pushed it to six to two and that was all she wrote.

On the night, Seiya Suzuki went two for four with a run scored for Chicago, and Busch finished with the home run and two runs scored despite striking out three times. Peter Crow-Armstrong went oh for five with three punchouts — a night to forget.

The Cubs controlled this one from the third inning on and never let Minnesota breathe. That's your post-game report. Sports Desk, signing off.

AI-generated post-game report composed from the official play-by-play and box score.

Who Scored — Scoring Timeline

  1. Busch homered to right (402 feet). P1 · 0–1
  2. Clemens homered to right center (371 feet). P2 · 1–1
  3. Amaya doubled to left, Hoerner scored and Swanson scored. P2 · 1–3
  4. Hoerner singled to right, Suzuki scored, Happ to third. P3 · 1–4
  5. Ramirez hit a ground rule double, Happ scored, Hoerner to third. P3 · 1–5
  6. Clemens homered to right center (391 feet). P7 · 2–5
  7. Ramirez singled to right, Busch scored, Hoerner to third. P7 · 2–6

Complete Play-by-Play

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Top of the 1st inning P1
Matthew Boyd pitches to Austin Martin P1
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P1
Martin flied out to center. P1
P1
Matthew Boyd pitches to Ryan Jeffers P1
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P1
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P1
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P1
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P1
Jeffers flied out to center. P1
P1
Matthew Boyd pitches to Josh Bell P1
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P1
Bell grounded out to shortstop. P1
P1
Middle of the 1st inning P1
Bottom of the 1st inning P1
Taj Bradley pitches to Pete Crow-Armstrong P1
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P1
Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P1
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Swinging P1
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P1
Crow-Armstrong flied out to right. P1
P1
Taj Bradley pitches to Seiya Suzuki P1
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P1
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P1
Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P1
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P1
Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P1
Suzuki lined out to third. P1
P1
Taj Bradley pitches to Michael Busch P1
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P1
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P1
Busch homered to right (402 feet). P1
P1
Taj Bradley pitches to Alex Bregman P1
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P1
Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P1
Bregman struck out swinging. P1
P1
End of the 1st inning P1
Top of the 2nd inning P2
Matthew Boyd pitches to Victor Caratini P2
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P2
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P2
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P2
Caratini grounded out to third. P2
P2
Matthew Boyd pitches to Brooks Lee P2
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P2
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P2
Lee grounded out to shortstop. P2
P2
Matthew Boyd pitches to Kody Clemens P2
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P2
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P2
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P2
Clemens homered to right center (371 feet). P2
P2
Matthew Boyd pitches to Ryan Kreidler P2
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P2
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P2
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P2
Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P2
Kreidler struck out swinging. P2
P2
Middle of the 2nd inning P2
Bottom of the 2nd inning P2
Taj Bradley pitches to Ian Happ P2
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P2
Happ grounded out to first. P2
P2
Taj Bradley pitches to Nico Hoerner P2
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P2
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P2
Hoerner singled to right. P2
P2
Taj Bradley pitches to Pedro Ramirez P2
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P2
Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P2
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P2
Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P2
Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P2
Pitch 7 : Ball 4 P2
Ramirez walked, Hoerner to second. Chicago Cubs challenged: call on the field was overturned. P2
P2
Taj Bradley pitches to Dansby Swanson P2
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P2
Swanson grounded into fielder's choice to third, Ramirez out at second, Hoerner to third. P2
P2
Taj Bradley pitches to Miguel Amaya P2
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P2
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P2
Swanson stole second. P2
Swanson stole second. P2
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P2
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P2
Amaya doubled to left, Hoerner scored and Swanson scored. P2
P2
Taj Bradley pitches to Pete Crow-Armstrong P2
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P2
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P2
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P2
Crow-Armstrong struck out swinging. P2
P2
End of the 2nd inning P2
Top of the 3rd inning P3
Matthew Boyd pitches to Luke Keaschall P3
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P3
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P3
Keaschall singled to right. P3
P3
Matthew Boyd pitches to Trevor Larnach P3
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P3
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P3
Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P3
Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P3
Pitch 7 : Ball In Play P3
Larnach grounded out to catcher, Keaschall to second. P3
P3
Matthew Boyd pitches to Austin Martin P3
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P3
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P3
Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Looking P3
Martin struck out looking. P3
P3
Matthew Boyd pitches to Ryan Jeffers P3
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P3
Pitch 3 : Ball 3 P3
Pitch 4 : Strike 1 Looking P3
Pitch 5 : Ball 4 P3
Jeffers walked. P3
P3
Matthew Boyd pitches to Josh Bell P3
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P3
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P3
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P3
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P3
Bell popped out to first. P3
P3
Middle of the 3rd inning P3
Bottom of the 3rd inning P3
Taj Bradley pitches to Seiya Suzuki P3
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P3
Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P3
Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P3
Pitch 5 : Ball 4 P3
Suzuki walked. P3
P3
Taj Bradley pitches to Michael Busch P3
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P3
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P3
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P3
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Looking P3
Busch struck out looking. Minnesota Twins challenged: call on the field was overturned. P3
P3
Taj Bradley pitches to Alex Bregman P3
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P3
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P3
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P3
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P3
Bregman lined out to center. P3
P3
Taj Bradley pitches to Ian Happ P3
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P3
Pitch 3 : Ball 3 P3
Pitch 4 : Ball 4 P3
Happ walked, Suzuki to second. P3
P3
Taj Bradley pitches to Nico Hoerner P3
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P3
Hoerner singled to right, Suzuki scored, Happ to third. P3
P3
Taj Bradley pitches to Pedro Ramirez P3
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P3
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P3
Ramirez hit a ground rule double, Happ scored, Hoerner to third. P3
P3
Taj Bradley pitches to Dansby Swanson P3
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P3
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P3
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Swinging P3
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P3
Swanson flied out to left. P3
P3
End of the 3rd inning P3
Top of the 4th inning P4
Matthew Boyd pitches to Victor Caratini P4
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P4
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P4
Caratini lined out to left. P4
P4
Matthew Boyd pitches to Brooks Lee P4
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P4
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P4
Lee popped out to shortstop. P4
P4
Matthew Boyd pitches to Kody Clemens P4
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P4
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P4
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P4
Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P4
Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P4
Pitch 7 : Strike 3 Swinging P4
Clemens struck out swinging. P4
P4
Middle of the 4th inning P4
Bottom of the 4th inning P4
Taj Bradley pitches to Miguel Amaya P4
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P4
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P4
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P4
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P4
Amaya popped out to second. P4
P4
Taj Bradley pitches to Pete Crow-Armstrong P4
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P4
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P4
Crow-Armstrong struck out swinging. P4
P4
Taj Bradley pitches to Seiya Suzuki P4
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P4
Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Swinging P4
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Looking P4
Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P4
Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P4
Pitch 7 : Ball In Play P4
Suzuki singled to left. P4
P4
Taj Bradley pitches to Michael Busch P4
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P4
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P4
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P4
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P4
Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P4
Pitch 7 : Strike 3 Looking P4
Busch struck out looking. P4
P4
End of the 4th inning P4
Top of the 5th inning P5
Matthew Boyd pitches to Ryan Kreidler P5
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P5
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P5
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Looking P5
Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P5
Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P5
Kreidler grounded out to second. P5
P5
Matthew Boyd pitches to Luke Keaschall P5
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P5
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P5
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P5
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P5
Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P5
Pitch 7 : Strike 3 Looking P5
Keaschall struck out looking. P5
P5
Matthew Boyd pitches to Trevor Larnach P5
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P5
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P5
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P5
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P5
Larnach fouled out to first. P5
P5
Middle of the 5th inning P5
Bottom of the 5th inning P5
Taj Bradley pitches to Alex Bregman P5
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P5
Bregman lined out to third. P5
P5
Taj Bradley pitches to Ian Happ P5
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P5
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P5
Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P5
Happ struck out swinging. P5
P5
Taj Bradley pitches to Nico Hoerner P5
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P5
Hoerner singled to left. P5
P5
Taj Bradley pitches to Pedro Ramirez P5
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P5
Ramirez popped out to shortstop. P5
P5
End of the 5th inning P5
Top of the 6th inning P6
Matthew Boyd pitches to Austin Martin P6
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P6
Martin fouled out to third. P6
P6
Matthew Boyd pitches to Ryan Jeffers P6
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P6
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P6
Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P6
Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P6
Jeffers singled to center. P6
P6
Matthew Boyd pitches to Josh Bell P6
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P6
Bell grounded into double play, third to second to first, Jeffers out at second. P6
P6
Middle of the 6th inning P6
Bottom of the 6th inning P6
Paredes relieved Bradley P6
Mike Paredes pitches to Dansby Swanson P6
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P6
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P6
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P6
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P6
Swanson tripled to center. P6
P6
Mike Paredes pitches to Miguel Amaya P6
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P6
Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Swinging P6
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P6
Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P6
Amaya struck out swinging. P6
P6
Mike Paredes pitches to Pete Crow-Armstrong P6
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P6
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P6
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P6
Pitch 4 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P6
Crow-Armstrong struck out swinging. P6
P6
Mike Paredes pitches to Seiya Suzuki P6
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P6
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P6
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Looking P6
Suzuki struck out looking. P6
P6
End of the 6th inning P6
Top of the 7th inning P7
Thielbar relieved Boyd P7
Caleb Thielbar pitches to Victor Caratini P7
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P7
Caratini grounded out to shortstop. P7
P7
Caleb Thielbar pitches to Brooks Lee P7
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P7
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P7
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P7
Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P7
Lee struck out swinging. P7
P7
Caleb Thielbar pitches to Kody Clemens P7
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P7
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P7
Clemens homered to right center (391 feet). P7
P7
Caleb Thielbar pitches to Ryan Kreidler P7
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P7
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P7
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P7
Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P7
Kreidler struck out swinging. P7
P7
Middle of the 7th inning P7
Bottom of the 7th inning P7
Mike Paredes pitches to Michael Busch P7
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P7
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P7
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P7
Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P7
Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P7
Pitch 7 : Ball 4 P7
Busch walked. P7
P7
Mike Paredes pitches to Alex Bregman P7
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P7
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P7
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P7
Bregman struck out swinging. P7
P7
Mike Paredes pitches to Ian Happ P7
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P7
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P7
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P7
Happ flied out to center. P7
P7
Mike Paredes pitches to Nico Hoerner P7
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P7
Hoerner singled to right, Busch to second. P7
P7
Mike Paredes pitches to Pedro Ramirez P7
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P7
Ramirez singled to right, Busch scored, Hoerner to third. P7
P7
Mike Paredes pitches to Dansby Swanson P7
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P7
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P7
Swanson grounded out to second. P7
P7
End of the 7th inning P7
Top of the 8th inning P8
Thornton relieved Thielbar P8
Trent Thornton pitches to Luke Keaschall P8
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P8
Keaschall flied out to right. P8
P8
Trent Thornton pitches to Trevor Larnach P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P8
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P8
Larnach grounded out to second. P8
P8
Roden hit for Martin P8
Trent Thornton pitches to Alan Roden P8
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P8
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P8
Roden singled to left. P8
P8
Trent Thornton pitches to Ryan Jeffers P8
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P8
Jeffers grounded out to second. P8
P8
Middle of the 8th inning P8
Bottom of the 8th inning P8
Roden in right field. P8
Rojas relieved Paredes P8
Kendry Rojas pitches to Miguel Amaya P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P8
Amaya lined out to right. P8
P8
Kendry Rojas pitches to Pete Crow-Armstrong P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P8
Crow-Armstrong flied out to left. P8
P8
Kendry Rojas pitches to Seiya Suzuki P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P8
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P8
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P8
Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P8
Suzuki singled to right. P8
P8
Kendry Rojas pitches to Michael Busch P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P8
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P8
Pitch 5 : Ball 2 P8
Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P8
Pitch 7 : Strike 3 Swinging P8
Busch struck out swinging. P8
P8
End of the 8th inning P8
Top of the 9th inning P9
Webb relieved Thornton P9
Jacob Webb pitches to Josh Bell P9
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P9
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P9
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P9
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P9
Bell reached on infield single to pitcher. P9
P9
Jacob Webb pitches to Victor Caratini P9
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P9
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P9
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P9
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P9
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P9
Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P9
Caratini singled to left, Bell to second. P9
P9
Jacob Webb pitches to Brooks Lee P9
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P9
Lee singled to center, Caratini to second, Lee thrown out at second, Bell thrown out at home. P9
P9
Jacob Webb pitches to Kody Clemens P9
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P9
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P9
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P9
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P9
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P9
Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P9
Clemens struck out swinging. P9
P9