The Cubs are facing several roster predicaments
Spiegel & Holmes Show
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4.2 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Here's the pitch to Carson. |
| 0:02.2 | A swinging in line, drive down the left field line. |
| 0:05.2 | Fair ball. |
| 0:06.7 | Cubs win the game. |
| 0:08.8 | Carson Kelly delivers. |
| 0:12.7 | Cubs are mobbing in between first and second base. |
| 0:16.8 | Listen to this crowd. |
| 0:22.0 | The crowd yesterday at Wrigley, Lawrence Holmes, was electric. |
| 0:27.3 | Pat Hughes and Ron Kumer referred to it several times during the game as like one of those days where you could feel the crowd, |
| 0:35.3 | kind of willing the team towards victory. |
| 0:38.4 | And they came back from down 6 to 1 and ended up tying the game with the two-run |
| 0:43.3 | Homer from Carson Kelly. |
| 0:44.5 | And then he walked it off in the 11th. |
| 0:46.2 | Big, big win for them yesterday. |
| 0:48.2 | And Nico Horner talked about what a big win it felt like earlier in the show with us. |
| 0:51.4 | And I'm glad that he doesn't try to act too cool about stuff like that, where it's like, yeah, the energy that fans were feeling, I was feeling that energy too. It's cool. The Cubs have a lineup out for tonight. Would you like to hear it? I would. Nico Horner will lead off. Against the lefty for the Braves. Yeah. And he's, he's had such a great season, man. I'm so happy for Nico. He's a five war player. It's pretty amazing when you don't Homer. It is. It lets you know all the other things that he does. So Nico will lead off and play second. Tucker will bat second and play right. Suzuki is your DH. He will bat third. |
| 1:29.0 | Carson Kelly is behind the plate. He'll bat fourth. Justin Turner in the lineup tonight. |
| 1:33.4 | That's interesting because Carlos Santana historically, an OPS over 800 against lefties in a very |
| 1:41.1 | long career as a switch hit, and he got a pinch hit or a pinch hit appearance |
| 1:45.3 | yesterday it's santana versus turner for playing time in a lot of ways ian happ will play left |
| 1:50.9 | and bat six danesby swanson at short matt shaw at third and mr alconra is in center field |
| 1:58.5 | and playing and batting 9. |
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