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Blue Jays @ Cubs Game Thread
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - JULY 04: A general view of fireworks prior to the game between the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals at Wrigley Field on July 04, 2026 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Daniel Bartel/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images) | Getty Images
I’m in Edmonton for the next couple of days, visiting my son and his girlfriend and some friends. So I’m getting the Game Thread up early. We may be light on content for a couple of days. It has been a week. We were at a funeral yesterday. Today we visiting a friend of mine whose wife is not well and has decided to do MAID in September and tomorrow visiting a friend who has been in hospital for the last mount or so. It seems like an ‘all bad news’ week. They happen now and then.
The nice part is we are going to ‘Blowers & Grafton’ for supper with friends that I don’t get to see often enough.
Today’s game is a make up game of a rain out back on June 21st. For some silly reason they haven’t put a roof on Wrigley Field yet. You’d think with all the years they’ve had that ballpark, they’d have a roof on it by now. Oh, someone is telling me they just got lights a few years ago. Things move slow on the north side of Chicago.
It is a 2:20 Eastern start.
I see there is rain in the forecast this afternoon, hopefully they will get the game in. I’d hate it, if I was a player, to have given up a rare off-day to fly to Chicago and then not get that game in. Then fly off to Philadelphia tomorrow.
Shi Davidi tells us that Kevin Gausman didn’t ‘ask’ not to start against the Blue Jays, but to me it sounds like he did (which I can understand):
Just caught up with Kevin Gausman in the Cubs clubhouse. He said he "didn't necessarily ask" that his start get pushed past the Blue Jays, "but I was like, could we please not?" "I just know it would be a lot. I just want to focus on trying to win a game and pitching against…
— Shi Davidi (@ShiDavidi) August 6, 2026
Today’s lineup, Vlad is still out.
Today’s Lineups
BLUE JAYS CUBS Myles Straw – CF Pete Crow-Armstrong – CF Kazuma Okamoto – 1B Seiya Suzuki – DH Alejandro Kirk – C Michael Busch – 1B George Springer – DH Alex Bregman – 3B Nathan Lukes – RF Ian Happ – LF Ernie Clement – 3B Nico Hoerner – 2B Luis Urias – 2B Michael Conforto – RF Davis Schneider – LF Dansby Swanson – SS Andres Gimenez – SS Miguel Amaya – C Dylan Cease – RHP David Peterson – LHP
Gausman also said nice things about what the Jays did at the deadline. He really is a class act.
Kevin Gausman on the Blue Jays trade deadline moves: pic.twitter.com/TepVvGnmiS
— Arden Zwelling (@ArdenZwelling) August 6, 2026
Go Jays Go. I think we are going to go find a bar to watch the game.
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