Can the Cubs slug their way to a title?

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes discussed the Cubs' offensive breakthrough in recent days.

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0:00.0	Where you were going to set.
0:01.7	Deep fly ball to left.
0:03.0	This ball's got a chance off the bat of Dansby.
0:05.4	Swanson, long gone.
0:08.2	A home run for Dansby.
0:10.7	And the Cubs now have opened up a 10-1 lead.
0:14.3	A towering drive.
0:16.1	Just fair down the left field line.
0:18.7	Number four for Swanson.
0:21.5	And the Cubs are hammering the Phillies in their yard.
0:26.6	Highlights, courtesy of the score, the great Pat Hughes on the call.
0:30.9	The Cubs brought the thunder sticks out.
0:33.7	They brought their bats with them to Philadelphia and they might have to win
0:39.4	this way for a while.
0:41.3	The offense is going to need to carry
0:43.2	them. Absolutely.
0:46.2	And I think the offense is
0:47.3	capable of it. Sea has
0:49.4	not gotten going at all.
0:51.2	Nope. And that needs
0:53.2	to happen. Dan's be getting going a little bit is a very good thing. Nico's on fire. Nico Horner, our guy. He's just, man, he is, I think he's going to be an all-star for the first time in his life. And he's getting a blow-up. Tenney, do we have the thing from MLB Network, the Nico from MLB Network from MLB Network. This was right after he finished talking with us, by the way. Yeah, he talked with us, and then he went and talked with... Sierra and Demp. That's a beautiful thing. And they had, like, snippets of him as a kid on MLB Network. This was Nico on TV and his glow-up.
1:29.0	Runner leads off second.
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