Brewers vs. Cubs NLDS Game 4 Highlights (10/9/25) | MLB Highlights

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It is an electric atmosphere on a chilly October night on the north side of Chicago, still some fight left in the Chicago Cubs who have won not one but two elimination games and look to win a third to keep their season alive here tonight. Matthew Boyd looks for a bounce back. He gets to start after a rough go of it in game one of this series. They would not be here unless the great work of this summer. He had 14 wins, 12 of them came here in Wrigley, the heartbeat of this team leader and it takes ball four in auspicious first batter for Boyd and it brings up Jackson Chur two strikes out really felt like they were throwing chur too many strikes. Now they’re starting to pitch him out of the strike zone and there’s some chase and the young right hander game Contreras five for 12 in this series. And a high chop to short Swanson charges fields and flips to get one on the first to try and turn two, but Contreras beats it out. So fielder’s choice for Contreras if he comes up and fields that baseball on the high hop they might have a chance to turn two either way. The inning advances to Bryce Tang who’s in the cleanup spot, pops it up to left field win, pushing it deeper but he, and underneath it. And for the first time in the series, the visiting team fails to score a run in the top of the first inning, Freddie Peralta, the Brewers ace tow the rubber for Milwaukee a run to the winner in the series opener against the Cubs last Saturday in Wisconsin and Bush is banned. So two fastballs, a changeup and the breaking ball from Peralta. Niko Horner steps in a lot of Cubs have had a tough time against freddie Peralta and a lot of hitters all over baseball , especially national leaguers have struggled against him. For example, Niko Horner five for 31 in his career against this guy with a ground ball left side through the hole and a base hit for Nikko Horner who now has six hits in the series. Here’s Kyle Tucker that’s ball four, an uncompetitive pitch to put him aboard. We’ve seen Peralta a lot. You don’t see many four pitch walks from him say Suzuki strikes the plate. Suzuki hitting just 227 this postseason, but he’s homered twice. Suzuki is struck out by Peralta and there’s that fastball elevated to get in the chase. Ian Happ, the batter happ had a homer against Peralta last weekend in game one of this NL DS but he has struggled against Freddie Peralta three for 35 in their head to head battle a swing and a drive deep right field. It’s got a chance three run homer, Ian Hat Cubs lead three to nothing. Once again, the first inning for the Cubs strikes, I gets a pitch up and in, in his wheelhouse and he hammers his ball line drive rocket to the bleachers in right and you can’t get much louder here at Wrigley field, less than two, this crowd in half with just his third hit of the series and it’s his biggest one yet. Well, the Cubs now have 11 1st inning runs in this series. 21 total between the two teams. Here’s Carson Kelly. Kelly strikes out that sets a new baseball record for the postseason for combined runs in the first inning of a series. See if the Brewers can quiet this rowdy Wrigley bunch starting with andrew Vaughn against Matthew Boyd curveball outside ball four leadoff walk for the second straight inning against Boyd. Caleb. Durbin is the hitter Durbin two for 10 in this series driven in a pair and he bounces one to the right side. Softly. Horner has a long way to go and he’ll make the play at first. Sal Frelick, a left handed batting outfielder checks in Frelick hard ground ball. Nice stop by Bush. He gets to the bag for the second out but advancing to third is Vaughn pretty nice play by Michael Bush. That was not a routine chance. Now his balls hit sharply down the line, Michael a couple of steps, little quick slide and Then fields this ball and Then takes it himself, which I really like. And Blake Perkins who started the first two games in center field came off the bench last night was zero for two. He’s three for 10 overall in the series. Perkins with a fly ball to right Suzuki underneath it and the inning is over despite the leadoff walk, the Brewers walk away empty handed. Heat Armstrong will lead off the bottom of the second shows bunt with two strikes, Peralta off the mound and he makes the throw on target. Remember yesterday, he bunted with two strikes as well just trying to do anything to get on base. Dansby Swanson is another who has struggled, struggled against Peralta. But again, a lot of hitters in baseball have had a hard time against this guy Swanson strikes out for the sixth time this series to go out for Peralta in this game so far for them. On strikeout. Matt Shaw sticks the bat head out there bounces one to third. Caleb Durbin long throw the bag and Shaw is aboard in today’s game. Teams love to play their third baseman deep but when the ball is not hit as sharply, it makes for a tremendously long throw. And if you’re not on the money, the hitter is going to beat it out. So here’s Michael Busch runner goes from first on 32, it’s ball four and the pitch is going to elevate even higher. So two on with two out for Nikko Horner who traditionally has struggled against Freddie Peralta but at a base hit through the left side to start the uprising in the bottom of the first. A liner caught by Durban much ado about nothing there for freddie Peralta but a lot of pitches exhausted by Freddy in the bottom of the second. And there’s two quick outs as Jackson Chio strolls to the plate. These Brewers the best road team in baseball during the regular season, they have found ways to string together hits, move guys over Chur with a bouncing ball up the middle and he has a two out hit and that’s part of the reason for their success is they are rarely retired in order William Contreras. Now Contreras went around and the Brewers strand another base runner, a couple of strikeouts and a scoreless third for Matthew Boyd and one swing. That’s all. It’s been Ian Happ a three run homer in the first inning. That’s the difference. See if free can get something going against Matthew Boyd who’s been tough to right field and will kick off the wall. Suzuki has an arm and Frelich dives in head first with a leadoff double in the fifth. Maybe that’s the spark. The Brewers need the leadoff man in scoring position for Blake Perkins. We’ll see if the Cubs show that short leash for Matthew Boyd. That’s a five pitch walk to Perkins traffic for the Brewers 1st and 2nd. Nobody out again with the ninth place hitter up Ortiz, the threat of the bunt for the Brewers to move the two runners up off the third base line charging a shaw, he throws on the run but the successful, the first successful sacrifice in this series, Ortiz does his job in the lineup. That’s about as good of a bunt that you’ll see. You want to b it hard enough that you make sure the third baseman has to field it, he has to field it. Then there’s no play at third base. Sacrifice is good. Here’s y the three run lead. The infield is back two and two. The count on with 2nd and 3rd and 1 down. Strike three. Got him with an inside fastball. Jelic has retired two away that , that was outstanding by Kelly and Matthew Boyd. They did not go with the hook one time. I, I, you could just feel Jelic looking for the hook and they come back with gas on the inside part of the plate and this place is up for grabs right now for Matthew Boyd as Boyd leaves the ball game, listen to this crowd as he heads back to the Cubs dugout along the third base line standing ovation. Daniel Palencia is going to come into the game for the Cubs with a right handed hitting Jackson Chur, Chur leads the way with six runs batted in this series nine RB I his first six career postseason games, chris it up on the infield left side, swats it on the dirt. He’s got it and the Brewers lead to here in the top of the fifth five CS three. Milwaukee. It’s up to the bullpen now, Matthew Boyd out of the game for Chicago and Freddie Peralta’s night is over as well. Trevor mcgill comes out of the bullpen here in the fifth for the Brewers and it’s a four pitch walk to Matt Shaw who now has his fifth this series and reaches for the second time tonight. Leadoff man aboard Michael Bush at the plate right down the pipe. 99 four seamer out of his hand ball just sticks on the outside corner. He comes back after a four pitch walk to Shaw and strikes out Bush. Nikko Horner and Horner serves this to right. It is down for a base hit a great piece of hitting from Nikko Horner and they are two on with one out and mcgill saw his three batters and his night is over. Aaron Ashby enters the game, the lefty and quite the gem two on one out here in the fifth. The Cubs looking to tack on insurance. He will face Kyle Tucker. Both runners go pitch inside throw to third, not in time, double steal for the Cubs. They hadn’t had a stolen base. Most of this series got one in game three and now have two on one play here in game four. The payoff pitch four Cubs have loaded up the bases as Tucker draws a walk. Suzuki do up the Cubs clean up with just one down here in the bottom of the fifth inning check swing. Did he go? He went around strike three. What a gutsy pitch from aaron Ashby, a curveball down in the dirt and Suzuki couldn’t hold up job, not done yet. Ian is at the plate hits from the right side pitch from Ashby and now Ian with a drive to center Perkins is there. Well, the intestinal fortitude of Aaron Ashby was large in that inning. Strikes out Suzuki with the bases loaded gets had to fly out to center. Each team has threatened along the way. In fact, both teams threatened in the fifth inning, but neither team scored. It will be Kelly from Armstrong and Swanson. Now in the bottom of the sixth inning on the ground from Kelly off the short and unable to field it difficult chance for the right decision. He couldn’t wait back on it because he’d lose the play. So he had to come in and try to get the short hop. He did not, he got the in between hop and at that point you’re just hoping that it hits right in the pocket and it did not pete Armstrong this right back to the mound. He looks at second fires a strike to first. Nobody was covering third. The Brewers able to get Joey Ortiz to rotate around and get there preventing an advance. The sacrifice successful Dansby Swanson bats. He struck out twice. Here it comes and it’s ball four. Now, Shaw will bat. Ashby has faced six batters and had a lot of deep counts. He’s got a great arm run, but we’ve seen him get a little wobbly with the command and he’s in that mode right now. There’s no doubt he has had some issues, command issues at times. And Shaw pokes this in the center for a base hit. They were waving around Kelly and the Cubs extend their lead an RB I single for Shaw to tack on some insurance in the sixth. As we go with the breaking ball after the heater, this pitch is down and away and all that he does just puts a little three quarter swing on it. This pitch is gonna bounce right behind home plate but he goes out and gets it in 15. Love the second base bag to drive in a run lineup. Turns over Busch at the plate first pitch swinging diving stop by Vaughn at first and he will win the foot race to the bag. He takes extra bases away from Michael Busch. What a play by Andrew Vug to his left ball was smoked and with the di but also had the wherewithal to get over there. I don’t think Ashby the left hander was going to get over. He was a spectator at first. So Vaughn knew to get there and be pushed to the bag. And manager Pat Murphy is going to bring in a new pitcher, a right hander to face Niko Horner runners at 2nd and 3rd 2 down, Chad Patrick to face Niko Horner 12 and Horner bounces one to second. Tang makes the play but the Cubs add some insurance. They have stretched at Wrigley and kyle Tucker will lead things off. Fly ball deep left center. This balls got a chance. It’s gone. Kyle Tucker with a home run Cubs lead five to nothing. That is a huge swing of the bat for the Chicago Cubs and an even bigger swing of the bat for Kyle Tucker left on left gets a pitch away and hammers it to left center field for a long home run and if he gets hot, the Cubs are gonna get hot. Here says Suzuki on the ground from Suzuki Durban is for a wide of the bag and Suzuki is an infield single. Here’s Ian fly ball from hap to left field pretty deep. Perkins in front of the Ivy makes the catch and a loud fly out from hap. He had one hand on the Ivy reached up and made the catch so often you see a ball hit like that grabbed by the basket. So there’s one away. Here’s Carson Kelly deep drive to left. If it’s fair, it’s going to leave the yard. Here’s a home run. Carson Kelly, a two run homer. The Cubs have broken it wide open and lead seven to nothing. Everybody in the ballpark was watching. It just stays inside the flagpole. Just an absolute blast all the way over everything and out onto the street. Well, Pat Murphy’s gonna come out and question whether that was a home run or not. He’s going to want the umpires to at least talk about it. If the ball disappears, that means it’s on the foul side of the pole. If it doesn’t disappear, Then it’s on the fair side of the pole. And if we show it from our low camera again, once it disappears , that’s usually on the wrong side of the pole unless it just scraped it. I don’t know that’s how close it was and a final verdict will be rendered here. And let’s see what they decided. Foul ball don’t know, have a factor in the outcome here tonight. But stranger things have happened, right? Roller up the middle. Ortiz charges looks at second and gets the out at first. Didn’t look like Ortiz knew what to do with it. He was going to go to second but Then lost the handle but didn’t lose the play. But they’re going to challenge this one too. I thought he was safe at first. That looks like at least the tie. Right. They’re going to check it. This goes against Kelly. This is about the toughest that bat you could ever have run a homer that barely scrapes past the foul pole on the wrong side. And Then as close a play as you can get at first base and after all of that, Carson Kelly is retired. We’re in the bottom of the eighth inning. It’s a five run game one away. Here’s Michael Bush, there’s a high fly ball deep, right center back to the one. It’s got a chance. Michael Bush has done it again. Bush with a home run and the Cubs now lead six to nothing and that one should put it on ice. I know there’s some hot hitters in the playoffs, but can you be any hotter than Michael Bush? He gets a heater in the middle of the zone and it’s a souvenir. He crunches this one into the wind to left to right center about three rows deep. He is just as hot as you can get his third homer in the series four postseason home runs for Michael Bush back here in Chicago, three outs for the Brewers to avoid being sent back to Milwaukee for a game five. Caleb field bar comes out of the bullpen for his second appearance of the series bouncing ball from Tran handled by Horner. The gold glove winner Vaughn has been on base twice, a single, a walk and a pop up 22 bounce to short routine for Swanson out number two. Now the fans standing one out to go and this game will be headed to a game five in the best of five to short. This could do it. They throw to first and the Cubs win the ball game 6 to 3 on the put out the Cubs win it by a score of six to nothing. And there will be a game five Saturday night in Milwaukee between these two teams.