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LOS ANGELES \u2014 Ryan Rolison had not pitched in 10 days when Chicago Cubs manager Craig Counsell turned to the lefty reliever.<\/p>\n

The Cubs needed outs. And in that moment, when everything had been working against the Cubs heading into the sixth inning Friday night at Dodger Stadium, Rolison delivered. He threw three shutout innings and allowed just two base runners, giving the Cubs offense a chance to chip away at a four-run deficit.<\/p>\n

The Cubs tallied six runs and eight hits over the final three innings against the Dodgers bullpen to rally for a 6-4 victory for their 10th consecutive win. It represents the Cubs\u2019 longest winning streak since 2016.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just a great team win,\u201d Counsell said. \u201cRyan Rolison, to me, is the story of the game. \u2026 I don\u2019t know if I wasn\u2019t expecting three innings from him . I was hoping to get two innings from Ryan \u2014 it\u2019s a day that you win a game, you put your bullpen back in order, and it\u2019s one guy did it really, he did it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"CubsCubs third baseman Alex Bregman reacts after hitting a solo home run to tie the game against the Dodgers in the eighth inning at Dodger Stadium on April 24, 2026, in Los Angeles. (Luke Hales\/Getty)<\/p>\n

Alex Bregman delivered his biggest hit in a Cubs uniform, connecting on a game-tying solo home run off Blake Treinen in the eighth. Dansby Swanson provided the dagger in the ninth. His two-run blast gave the Cubs (17-9) their first lead of the night. Right-hander Corbin Martin retired the Dodgers in order for his first save of the season.<\/p>\n

Hours after losing another high-leverage reliever \u2014 Caleb Thielbar \u2014 to the injured list<\/a>, further depleting the bullpen, the Cubs managed just three hits off Los Angeles Dodgers starter Emmet Sheehan. They didn\u2019t let their struggles against Sheehan\u2019s electric stuff carry over to the Dodgers bullpen. Swanson\u2019s two-out, two-run triple in the seventh got the Cubs on the board, and Nico Hoerner followed with a single to pull the Cubs within one.<\/p>\n

After hearing booing from Dodgers fans all night, continuing the trend from his Houston Astros days, Bregman took an 0-1 sweeper on the outside edge and pulled it over the left-field wall to lead off the eighth.<\/p>\n

Stellar defense in the bottom of the seventh kept the Cubs within a run to set up Bregman\u2019s and Swanson\u2019s heroics. Seiya Suzuki and Hoerner teamed up on a perfectly executed relay to throw out Andy Pages at third as he tried to stretch out a double to open the seventh. On the ensuing play, Hoerner\u2019s instincts and athleticism shined. He barehanded a deflected ball off Michael Busch\u2019s mitt and in one motion threw to the covering Rolison at first for the second out.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of positives, but I think it shows the heart and the character of this team, and it gives you that feeling of, no matter what the deficit is, you can still come back and win,\u201d catcher Carson Kelly said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 Ryan Rolison had not pitched in 10 days when Chicago Cubs manager Craig Counsell turned…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":751706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[2730,960,1271,1816,16075,5386,1818,2502,13715,212421,8753],"class_list":["post-751705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-alex-bregman","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-craig-counsell","tag-dansby-swanson","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-nico-hoerner","tag-ryan-rolison","tag-seiya-suzuki"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116464202109436697","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}