Chicago – With a blow in a perfect night at the beginning of fall, an explosion of Francisco Lindor did all kinds of history. For the dishes, however, there is only one type of history to do – the one who landed them in the playoffs.
The dishes helped themselves in this regard by eliminating the CUBS 8-5 Thursday behind another outing of veterans of the Dynamic Right Recrue Nolan McLean, who withdrew 11 career strikers from 11 strikers and dispersed five chicago races while launching with a considerable advance. New York escaped the Wrigley Field keys with a great serial victory.
However, with three games to play, the dishes did not lock anything.
“We have to go there and take care of business,” said Lindor. “The teams that fight for the playoffs are very good teams, so we have to go there and do it.”
McLean obtained a lot of help in a victory without drama at a time when nothing was easy for the food. The 30th Lindor circuit in the third pushed New York’s early advantage at 3-0, and the three points of Brett Baty during the fourth broke out the match.
The next step is Miami, and the dishes will fly to Florida which always control their own fate in the race for the last point of Joker in the National League. New York leads cincinnati by a match and Arizona by two, but the dishes will lose an equal break against one or the other club if they finished with identical regular season records.
“You want to stay alive,” said Lindor. “We are in a position at this moment when we control our own destiny. But we have to take care of business. The Marlins have also played, and we know it.”
The Lindor circuit was remarkable for several reasons. Lindor, who has slipped 31 bases this season, now has his second career season 30-30, which makes him the second main courtyard to have two type campaigns, according to ESPN Research. Bobby Witt Jr. from Kansas City was the first.
In addition, Lindor joins the star of Mets Juan Soto in Club 30-30 of this season, making it the third pair of teammates to do so in the same season. The others were the ‘Howard Johnson and Darryl Strawberry (1987) and Dante Bichette and Ellis Burks (1996).
As usual, Lindor has deviated from his role in his own achievements.
“I am fortunate to be with good teammates, the people who are elite, are at the top of what they are doing,” said Lindor. “When it comes to me, I am surrounded by good teammates, good coaches and they try to find this advantage every day.”
This also marks the sixth season of 30 Hommer from Lindor, moving it in front of the legend of Cubs Ernie Banks for most of these campaigns by a curl stop. Lindor now only follows Alex Rodriguez, who had seven.
Finally, Lindor joins Soto and Pete Alonso for the dishes in the 30 -house club, the first time in 64 years of food history that they had three players have struck this brand.
“It’s quite impressive,” said the food manager Carlos Mendoza. “This shows you the type of players we have here. They have brought us for about a whole year.”
McLean may have done his debut too late in the season to put on a real push for the recruit of the NL of the year, but if he had started earlier, he would be a favorite. McLean is now 5-1 in eight departures since its promotion with a tiny 2.06 MPM. The dishes, whose difficulties of pitching in the second half caused all kinds of headaches for their fans, are 6-2 in its departures. The other start starters are a 6-12 combined since McLean’s first departure on August 16.
“I just try to keep the match plan as different as possible, as many times as possible,” said McLean, who used the six throws of his arsenal thanks to the exit. “Simply playing this cat and mouse game, which, I think, is important.”
The New York end -of -season series against the Marlins begins on Friday, while the Reds end in Milwaukee, and the Arizona Visits San Diego.
With a few more nights as Thursday, the dishes hope to go to Los Angeles to play the NL West Dodgers champion in a joker series, a revenge of the series of championships of the national sparkling league of last year. But there are first cases to attend in southern Florida.
“You are moving away from this series by feeling good, but you must always go there and take care of business in Miami,” said Mendoza. “We are in this position, but we are still in control.”
