Pittsburgh Pirates at Chicago Cubs

PIT 6 — CHC 7

Final — 2026-04-12

Game MVP: Brandon Lowe — 2-4, 2 HR, 5 RBI, 1 BB

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
PIT	1	4	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	6	7	1
CHC	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	2	1	7	10	0

WP Daniel Palencia (1-0)

LP Jose Urquidy (0-1)

Scoring Plays

Top 1: Cruz homered to center (422 feet). (0-1)

Top 2: Lowe homered to right center (372 feet), Ozuna scored, Horwitz scored and Griffin scored. (0-5)

Bot 3: Swanson homered to left center (391 feet). (1-5)

Bot 3: Ballesteros homered to center (427 feet). (2-5)

Top 5: Lowe homered to right center (444 feet). (2-6)

Bot 5: Bregman hit sacrifice fly to left, Hoerner scored. (3-6)

Bot 7: Bregman popped out to second, Swanson scored. (4-6)

Bot 8: Busch singled to left, Suzuki scored on error and Swanson scored on throwing error by left fielder Reynolds, Busch to second. (6-6)

Bot 9: Kelly singled to center, Kingery scored, Suzuki to second, Happ to third. (7-6)

Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	PC-ST	ERA	Decision
Bubba Chandler	5.1	5	3	3	2	4	2	91-64	3.86
Hunter Barco	1.2	1	1	1	2	1	0	32-21	6.43
Justin Lawrence	1.0	1	2	1	2	2	0	29-16	9.82
Jose Urquidy	0.1	3	1	1	1	0	0	22-12	3.38	L, 0-1

Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	PC-ST	ERA	Decision
Jameson Taillon	6.0	6	6	6	2	10	3	102-59	4.86
R. Martin	1.1	1	0	0	0	2	0	19-13	0.00
Ethan Roberts	0.2	0	0	0	0	1	0	13-8	0.00
Daniel Palencia	1.0	0	0	0	1	2	0	16-9	0.00	W, 1-0

Venue: Wrigley Field, Chicago, Illinois (35,711)

Umpires: Home Plate Umpire: Alan Porter, First Base Umpire: Jim Wolf, Second Base Umpire: Roberto Ortiz, Third Base Umpire: Alex Mackay

Broadcast: MARQ | SNPT