Ian Happ followed that with a solo homer of his own [VIDEO].<\/a><\/p>\nNico Hoerner had a pair of hits, including a two-run double. Dansby Swanson also drove in a pair.<\/p>\n
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So, yes, against minor leaguers. Still, it has to be good for these hitters to get into a rhythm before Opening Day on Thursday. After today the Cubs don\u2019t face the Brewers until May 18.<\/p>\n
Ben Brown threw two scoreless innings of relief, and was touching 97-98 consistently. I think this will be an excellent role for him this year, and it appears he\u2019s going to make the Opening Day roster and serve in that precise role.<\/p>\n
Attendance watch: 14,375 paid on another hot (96 degrees) day at Sloan Park. That pushes the season total over 200,000, at 202,927 for 16 dates. That\u2019s an average of 12,683 per date. (This does not include the Spring Breakout game.)<\/p>\n
One more note, ICYMI:<\/p>\n
No surprises here. Jonathon Long might have had a shot at the Opening Day roster, but the injury he suffered early in camp set him back too far. I\u2019m thinking he\u2019ll get some chances in the big leagues later this year.<\/p>\n
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The Cubs will wrap Spring Training 2026 with two exhibition games against the Yankees at Sloan Park. Monday afternoon at 2:05 p.m. CT, Sh\u014dta Imanaga will face Carlos Lagrange. No TV Monday, there will be radio broadcasts on both WSCR The Score and the Yankees flagship WFAN 660.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cubs right-hander Cade Horton, who shapes up to be the No. 2 starter after Matthew Boyd begins the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,734,136,735,138,24,4245,161,733,57239,2000,843,37439,4,33,536,4563,142],"class_list":["post-638325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-cubs","tag-baseball","tag-ben-brown","tag-brewers","tag-cade-horton","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicagocubs","tag-cubs","tag-dansby-swanson","tag-exhibition-games","tag-matthew-boyd","tag-milwaukee","tag-minor-leaguers","tag-mlb","tag-nico-hoerner","tag-reds","tag-sloan-park","tag-yankees"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116276444852288921","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}