Detroit Tigers 5 – 1 Chicago Cubs

MLB · July 23, 2026 · Final

🎧 Post-Game Report (audio)

Post-Game Recap

The Detroit Tigers knocked off the Chicago Cubs tonight, five to one, and it wasn't nearly as close as that final score might suggest.

Chicago drew first blood in the opening inning when Seiya Suzuki launched a solo shot to left center, three hundred ninety-seven feet, and the Cubs looked like they might have something going. Detroit answered immediately in the second — Spencer Torkelson tied it with a blast of his own to left center, three hundred ninety-one feet, and just like that the momentum had flipped.

Then came the fourth inning, and that's where this game was decided. Hao-Yu Lee stepped up with Greene and Torkelson on base and crushed a three-run homer to center, three hundred eighty-nine feet, and suddenly Detroit was up four to one. The Cubs never recovered from that swing. Chicago's lineup went quiet from that point forward — Crow-Armstrong went oh for three with two strikeouts, Bregman was oh for four with two punchouts, and Suzuki's first-inning homer ended up being the only damage Chicago could muster all night.

Detroit put the finishing touches on it in the ninth when Zach McKinstry doubled to center to score Torkelson and push the lead to five.

Torkelson was the engine of this offense — scoring twice and keeping Detroit's attack relentless from the second inning on. The Cubs simply had no answer once Lee's bat did the real damage in the fourth.

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

Suzuki homered to left center (397 feet). P1 · 0–1
Torkelson homered to left center (391 feet). P2 · 1–1
Lee homered to center (389 feet), Greene scored and Torkelson scored. P4 · 4–1
McKinstry doubled to center, Torkelson scored. P9 · 5–1

Complete Play-by-Play

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Top of the 1st inning P1

Colin Rea pitches to Kevin McGonigle P1

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P1

McGonigle flied out to center. P1

Colin Rea pitches to Dillon Dingler P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P1

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Looking P1

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P1

Dingler struck out swinging. P1

Colin Rea pitches to Colt Keith P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P1

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P1

Keith grounded out to shortstop. P1

Middle of the 1st inning P1

Bottom of the 1st inning P1

Keider Montero pitches to Pete Crow-Armstrong P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P1

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Swinging P1

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Looking P1

Crow-Armstrong struck out looking. P1

Keider Montero 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 Looking P1

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P1

Suzuki homered to left center (397 feet). P1

Keider Montero pitches to Michael Busch P1

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P1

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P1

Busch singled to center. P1

Keider Montero pitches to Alex Bregman P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P1

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 4 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 6 : Ball 2 P1

Pitch 7 : Ball 3 P1

Pitch 8 : Ball In Play P1

Bregman popped out to shortstop. P1

Keider Montero pitches to Ian Happ P1

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P1

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P1

Happ struck out swinging. P1

End of the 1st inning P1

Top of the 2nd inning P2

Colin Rea pitches to Riley Greene P2

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P2

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P2

Greene grounded out to first. P2

Colin Rea pitches to Spencer Torkelson P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P2

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P2

Torkelson homered to left center (391 feet). P2

Colin Rea pitches to Kerry Carpenter P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P2

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P2

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P2

Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P2

Pitch 7 : Ball In Play P2

Carpenter singled to right. P2

Colin Rea pitches to Zach McKinstry P2

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P2

McKinstry lined out to left. P2

Colin Rea pitches to Hao-Yu Lee 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 3 P2

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P2

Lee grounded out to second. P2

Middle of the 2nd inning P2

Bottom of the 2nd inning P2

Keider Montero pitches to Nico Hoerner P2

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P2

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P2

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P2

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P2

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P2

Hoerner grounded out to third. P2

Keider Montero pitches to Michael Conforto P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P2

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P2

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P2

Conforto struck out swinging. P2

Keider Montero pitches to Carson Kelly P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P2

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P2

Kelly grounded out to third. P2

End of the 2nd inning P2

Top of the 3rd inning P3

Colin Rea pitches to James Outman P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P3

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P3

Outman singled to center. P3

Colin Rea pitches to Kevin McGonigle P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P3

McGonigle singled to center, Outman to third. P3

Colin Rea pitches to Dillon Dingler P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P3

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Looking P3

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P3

McGonigle caught stealing second, catcher to second. P3

Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 7 : Strike 3 Swinging P3

Dingler struck out swinging. P3

Colin Rea pitches to Colt Keith P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P3

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 5 : Ball 2 P3

Pitch 6 : Ball 3 P3

Pitch 7 : Strike 3 Swinging P3

Keith struck out swinging. P3

Middle of the 3rd inning P3

Bottom of the 3rd inning P3

Keider Montero pitches to Dansby Swanson P3

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P3

Swanson grounded out to shortstop. P3

Keider Montero pitches to Pete Crow-Armstrong P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P3

Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P3

Crow-Armstrong struck out swinging. P3

Keider Montero pitches to Seiya Suzuki P3

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P3

Suzuki grounded out to shortstop. P3

End of the 3rd inning P3

Top of the 4th inning P4

Colin Rea pitches to Riley Greene P4

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P4

Greene doubled to center. P4

Colin Rea pitches to Spencer Torkelson P4

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P4

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P4

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P4

Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 7 : Ball 4 P4

Torkelson walked. P4

Colin Rea pitches to Kerry Carpenter P4

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P4

Carpenter flied out to left. P4

Colin Rea pitches to Zach McKinstry P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P4

McKinstry flied out to left. P4

Colin Rea pitches to Hao-Yu Lee P4

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P4

Pitch 3 : Ball 3 P4

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P4

Lee homered to center (389 feet), Greene scored and Torkelson scored. P4

Colin Rea pitches to James Outman P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P4

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Looking P4

Outman struck out looking. P4

Middle of the 4th inning P4

Bottom of the 4th inning P4

Keider Montero pitches to Michael Busch P4

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P4

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Swinging P4

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P4

Busch grounded out to first. P4

Keider Montero pitches to Alex Bregman P4

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P4

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P4

Bregman struck out swinging. P4

Keider Montero pitches to Ian Happ P4

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P4

Happ doubled to right. P4

Keider Montero pitches to Nico Hoerner P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P4

Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P4

Hoerner struck out swinging. P4

End of the 4th inning P4

Top of the 5th inning P5

Colin Rea pitches to Kevin McGonigle P5

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P5

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P5

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P5

McGonigle struck out swinging. P5

Colin Rea pitches to Dillon Dingler P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P5

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P5

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P5

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P5

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P5

Dingler grounded out to shortstop. P5

Colin Rea pitches to Colt Keith P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P5

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P5

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P5

Keith grounded out to second. P5

Middle of the 5th inning P5

Bottom of the 5th inning P5

Keider Montero pitches to Michael Conforto P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P5

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P5

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P5

Conforto struck out swinging. P5

Keider Montero pitches to Carson Kelly P5

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P5

Kelly popped out to first. P5

Keider Montero pitches to Dansby Swanson P5

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P5

Swanson flied out to right. P5

End of the 5th inning P5

Top of the 6th inning P6

Rolison relieved Rea P6

Ryan Rolison pitches to Riley Greene P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P6

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P6

Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P6

Greene struck out swinging. P6

Ryan Rolison pitches to Spencer Torkelson P6

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P6

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P6

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Looking P6

Torkelson struck out looking. P6

Ryan Rolison pitches to Kerry Carpenter P6

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P6

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P6

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P6

Carpenter struck out swinging. P6

Middle of the 6th inning P6

Bottom of the 6th inning P6

Keider Montero pitches to Pete Crow-Armstrong P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P6

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P6

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 6 : Ball 3 P6

Pitch 7 : Ball In Play P6

Crow-Armstrong safe at first on fielding error by pitcher Montero. P6

Keider Montero pitches to Seiya Suzuki P6

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P6

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P6

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P6

Suzuki struck out swinging. P6

Sommers relieved Montero P6

Drew Sommers pitches to Michael Busch P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P6

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P6

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P6

Busch grounded into double play, pitcher to shortstop to first, Crow-Armstrong out at second. P6

End of the 6th inning P6

Top of the 7th inning P7

Hollowell relieved Rolison P7

Gavin Hollowell pitches to Zach McKinstry P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P7

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P7

McKinstry flied out to center. P7

Gavin Hollowell pitches to Hao-Yu Lee P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P7

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 7 : Strike 3 Swinging P7

Lee struck out swinging. P7

Gavin Hollowell pitches to James Outman P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P7

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P7

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P7

Outman popped out to second. P7

Middle of the 7th inning P7

Bottom of the 7th inning P7

Anderson relieved Sommers P7

Drew Anderson pitches to Alex Bregman P7

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P7

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P7

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P7

Bregman struck out swinging. P7

Drew Anderson pitches to Ian Happ P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P7

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P7

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P7

Happ reached on infield single to second. P7

Drew Anderson pitches to Nico Hoerner P7

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P7

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P7

Hoerner flied out to center. P7

Drew Anderson pitches to Michael Conforto P7

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P7

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P7

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Looking P7

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Looking P7

Conforto struck out looking. P7

End of the 7th inning P7

Top of the 8th inning P8

Thielbar relieved Hollowell P8

Caleb Thielbar pitches to Kevin McGonigle P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P8

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P8

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 5 : Ball 2 P8

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P8

McGonigle lined out to right. P8

Caleb Thielbar pitches to Dillon Dingler P8

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P8

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P8

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P8

Dingler singled to left. P8

Vierling hit for Keith P8

Caleb Thielbar pitches to Matt Vierling P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P8

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P8

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Looking P8

Vierling struck out looking. P8

Caleb Thielbar pitches to Riley Greene P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 4 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P8

Greene struck out swinging. P8

Middle of the 8th inning P8

Bottom of the 8th inning P8

McGonigle at third base. P8

Vierling in right field. P8

McKinstry at shortstop. P8

Finnegan relieved Anderson P8

Kyle Finnegan pitches to Carson Kelly P8

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P8

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P8

Kelly lined out to right. P8

Kyle Finnegan pitches to Dansby Swanson P8

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P8

Swanson flied out to center. P8

Kyle Finnegan pitches to Pete Crow-Armstrong P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P8

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P8

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P8

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P8

Crow-Armstrong hit by pitch. P8

Kyle Finnegan pitches to Seiya Suzuki P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P8

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P8

Suzuki struck out swinging. P8

End of the 8th inning P8

Top of the 9th inning P9

Ferguson relieved Thielbar P9

Tyler Ferguson pitches to Spencer Torkelson P9

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P9

Torkelson singled to left. P9

Tyler Ferguson pitches to Kerry Carpenter P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P9

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P9

Carpenter lined out to left. P9

Tyler Ferguson pitches to Zach McKinstry P9

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P9

McKinstry doubled to center, Torkelson scored. P9

Tyler Ferguson pitches to Hao-Yu Lee P9

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P9

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P9

Lee lined out to center. P9

Tyler Ferguson pitches to James Outman P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P9

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P9

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Swinging P9

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P9

Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P9

Outman struck out swinging. P9

Middle of the 9th inning P9

Bottom of the 9th inning P9

Jansen relieved Finnegan P9

Kenley Jansen pitches to Michael Busch P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P9

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P9

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P9

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 7 : Ball 3 P9

Pitch 8 : Strike 3 Looking P9

Busch struck out looking. P9

Kenley Jansen pitches to Alex Bregman P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P9

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P9

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P9

Bregman popped out to third. P9

Kenley Jansen pitches to Ian Happ P9

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P9

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P9

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P9

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P9

Pitch 6 : Ball 4 P9

Happ walked. Detroit Tigers challenged: call on the field was upheld. P9

Kenley Jansen pitches to Nico Hoerner P9

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P9

Happ to second on fielder's indifference. P9

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P9

Hoerner grounded out to shortstop. P9

End of the 9th inning P9