{"id":981519,"date":"2026-08-05T03:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T03:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/981519\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T03:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T03:57:14","slug":"chicago-cubs-spoil-tarik-skubals-los-angeles-dodgers-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/981519\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Cubs spoil Tarik Skubal\u2019s Los Angeles Dodgers debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chicago Cubs spoiled Tarik Skubal\u2019s debut<\/a> with the slumping Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday night at Wrigley Field, posting a 5-1 victory behind key RBI singles by Nico Hoerner and Pete Crow-Armstrong.<\/p>\n

Dansby Swanson connected for a solo home run as the Cubs won for the third time in four games.<\/p>\n

Skubal permitted two runs and four hits over six innings in his first start since he was acquired in a trade with the Detroit Tigers on Saturday night. The two-time AL Cy Young Award winner threw 85 pitches, 51 for strikes.<\/p>\n

Kyle Tucker homered for the Dodgers, who finished with four hits in its fifth consecutive loss. It\u2019s the longest slide for the Dodgers since they also dropped five in a row in early September last year.<\/p>\n

With two out and runners at the corners in the sixth, Hoerner hit a high chopper to the right of the mound. Alex Bregman scampered home on the infield single, giving the Cubs a 2-1 lead.<\/p>\n

The Cubs added two more in the seventh on singles by Crow-Armstrong and Seiya Suzuki, and Hoerner made it 5-1 with a solo home run off Edwin D\u00edaz in the eighth.<\/p>\n

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Column: Tarik Skubal tries to shut out the noise before making his Los Angeles Dodgers debut at Wrigley Field<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ryan Rolison (6-1) pitched a scoreless inning for the win.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers jumped in front in the second. Moments after Mookie Betts bounced into a double play, Tucker drove a 2-1 sinker from Javier Assad to left-center for his 10th home run.<\/p>\n

Assad pitched 5 2\/3 innings, giving up one run and striking out three.<\/p>\n

Tucker heard boos for the second consecutive night in his return to Chicago after playing for the Cubs last season. The right fielder, who signed a $240 million, four-year contract with the Dodgers in free agency, also made a lunging catch on Hoerner\u2019s sinking liner to right in the bottom of the second.<\/p>\n

Skubal (7-6) retired his first six batters before Swanson drove his first pitch of the third to left-center for his 17th home run, sending a charge through the crowd of 40,584 at Wrigley Field.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Eric Lauer (6-5, 4.50 ERA) starts for the Dodgers in the series finale Wednesday against fellow left-hander Shota Imanaga (7-9, 3.67).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Cubs spoiled Tarik Skubal\u2019s debut with the slumping Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday night at Wrigley…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":981520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,1271,16075,5386,1818,63313,2502,1822,52993,13715,1277,393986,1272],"class_list":["post-981519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-dansby-swanson","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-javier-assad","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-mlb-trade-deadline","tag-nico-hoerner","tag-pete-crow-armstrong","tag-tarik-skubal-debut","tag-wrigley-field"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117040896736317987","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981519","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=981519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/981520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}