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The game was held at Pittsburgh's PNC Park on October 7, 2015. This was the third consecutive year that the NL Wild Card Game was played in Pittsburgh. [2] This was the third consecutive postseason appearance for the Pirates, all of which came as a wild card qualifier, while the Cubs made the postseason for the first time since 2008. [3]
Chicago (79-73), which has lost nine of 12, remained a half-game ahead of Miami (79-74) for the third NL wild card spot, wi Cubs lose for 6th time in 7 games, 13-7 defeat to Pirates as Palacios ...
Paul Skenes struck out 11 over six no-hit innings in his second major league start, and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Chicago Cubs 9-3 on Friday. Skenes allowed just one baserunner — Michael ...
The Cubs went from 1972 (Milt Pappas) to 2008 (Carlos Zambrano) without a no-hitter, but have five in the past 16 years: Jake Arrieta (2015 and 2016), Alec Mills (2020) and the 2021 combined no-no ...
In Major League Baseball, the two teams with the best record in each league who do not win a division play against each other in the Wild Card Game.This was the second postseason meeting between the Giants and Pirates – the two teams first met in the 1971 NL Championship Series, with the Pirates coming from behind to win three games to one after dropping Game 1. [8]
This was the last game for several members of the Cubs 2016 championship core, including Theo Epstein, who mutually parted ways with the team in November. In total from 2015 to 2020, they had made the postseason in all but one year and won a World Series, but since the close of the 2016 World Series, they lost nine of their next thirteen ...
Paul Skenes struck out seven over four-plus innings in his major league debut and Yasmani Grandal hit a go-ahead three-run homer as the Pittsburgh Pirates edged the Chicago Cubs 10-9 on Saturday.
The 2016 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2016 season.The 112th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) champion Chicago Cubs and the American League (AL) champion Cleveland Indians, the first meeting of those franchises in postseason history.