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topicnews · July 18, 2025

Chicago Cubs opened the 2nd half with a bang against Boston Red Sox

Chicago Cubs opened the 2nd half with a bang against Boston Red Sox


The all-star break is considered time for the players to get to breath, decompress and prepare for the pressure in the second half.

For the Chicago Cubs fans, who exceeded their team in the first half, the break was only four days in which the President Jed Hoyer will acquire at the conclusion of the trade and how they will fend off the Milwaukee Brewers in the National League Central.

There is no vacation in front of the north side, especially after four seasons in the immediate vicinity.

It wasn't always like that.

The guilt of the former President Theo Epstein accused that Cubs fans increased the fear of fear that had got used to the fact that their team was fighting for the post-season from 2015 and began to take it for granted until Epstein went after the pandemic after the Pandemic 2020 season.

Now Epstein is back in Boston as a sub-owner and senior consultant of the Red Sox owner John Henry, while Hoyer, his long-time baseball partner and BFF, built a club that seems strong enough to return to the World Series, provided that the regression avoids the regression in the second half.

Therefore, the Cubs-Red Sox series, which begins on Friday, should bring a playoff atmosphere in Wrigley Field.

Epstein will miss a chance to look at a return video and to wave the amount of Crane Kenneys Suite. He said he would celebrate his son's birthday at home, and the family comes first.

But Epstein pays off to check his phone for updates or texts from Hoyer depending on the result of the games. Epstein's presence in Chicago and Boston is a legendary curse breaker in Chicago and Boston and will be noticeable all weekend.

The Cubs face a Red Sox team that won before the break 10 in a row, and confused the experts that they only left for the dead a month ago. That was after Craig Wroclow, who was hired in Chicago in Chicago in 2019 and who worked from 2021-23 under Hoyer, Slugger Rafael-Devers to the San Francisco Giants in the largest and most shocking trade of the season.

Since his public representation of the accident, the devers had been in the spotlight on the third basis for Free Agent Agent Alex Bregman. Breslow flew to Seattle to be together with the team after trading so that every player could express his opinion.

No clubhouse meeting. No drama. Only available for advice.

The Red Sox -Startter Garrett crochet goes off the field in Boston at the end of the second inning against the White Sox on April 19, 2025 in Fenway Park. (Brian Fluharty/Getty Images)

“I just tried to pack and look guys one after the other, see if you have any questions, make sure that I am strengthening our faith in this group and whether you have something that you want to raise awakening with me,” said Breslow, according to Boston Globe. “I am here from the question of ventilation. I only have the feeling that people feel a little more comfortable in a one-to-one environment.”

The showrunner of this Red Sox mini series in the second year was looted for the move, like Hoyer after the memorable summer sale of 2021 when he entered the stars Kris Bryant, Anthony Rizzo and Javier Báez at the deadline.

But Breslow seems to have come out like a rose. The Red Sox (53-45) are three games behind first place in Toronto Blue Jays in the American League East and a game behind the New York Yankees.

“Just playing really good ball,” said starter Garrett Crochet. “We have won in many different ways, after the starting staff, after the Bullpen, over the long ball and about the other way.

“We win the one-run games, and before we have lost them. These games can always go in both directions, and at the moment we find a way to get them to visit. I think that is what makes a good ball club. At the end of the year, the last ones are usually in dance that win these games.”

Crochet, the former White Sox star, had a 121-loss season that was the most in modern history. Now he is in the hottest team in baseball, like from the annex to the penthouse. How much sweeter could it be?

“It is something I hadn't thought about until they mentioned it,” he said. “In retrospect, it seems to be a little more fun.”

Crochet, who leaned the chance of getting up in the all-star game for an additional break, should begin the final on Sunday. Another former White Sox -Pitcher, Lucas Giolito, will meet against Colin Rea at the Opener on Friday, and Shota Imanaga will alludes to Brayan Bellow on Saturday evening in a game against Fox against Brayan Bellow.

On June 21, 2025, the fans celebrate a 10-7 Cub victory against the Mariners on the Wrigley Field. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune)
On June 21, 2025, the fans celebrate a 10-7 Cub victory against the Mariners on the Wrigley Field. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune)

The Cubs are a season high of 18 games over 500, and since the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers looks a little more susceptible than during the opening series in Tokyo, expectations have increased in Chicago. And as the former manager Lou Piniella once said, Cubs fans tend to treat victories as if it is the World Series and Losses like the end of the world.

The Brewers bumped into a game in a game and have the best starting pitch in the division under the direction of Freddy Peralta and the rookie phenomenon Jacob “The Miz” Misiorowski, who can still compete in his five Major League starts.

The secret of the success of the Cub was the ability to avoid longer skids. Your longest winning streak is only five games, but your longest defeat is only three, and you don't have to be swept in a series with three games.

All-star Matthew Boyd's consistency and the return of Imanaga have come across a rotation that has been triggered by injuries to injuries since Justin Steele's elbow operation in April. An experienced Bullpen crew with an initially closer in Daniel Palencia has overcome doubters. But the scars of Hoyer's earlier Bullpen constructions have not healed fully, so that the fans are always in high maylating with the so-called “out-getmers”.

Manager Craig Punsell was heavily checked in his lineups, but the Cubs occupy the magirips in the runs second with 512, behind the Dodgers 518 (in another game), so that he may know what he is doing.

Cubs, who were shown as Hitter Seiya Suzuki, congratulated the first Baseman Michael Busch after meeting a Homerun on Sunday, July 6, 2025, on the fifth inning against the cardinals in Wrigley Field. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune)
Cubs, who were shown as Hitter Seiya Suzuki, congratulated first Baseman Michael Busch after beating the cardinals on Wrigley Field on July 6, 2025 on Wrigley Field. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune)

Kyle Tucker, Pete Crow-Armstrong, Seiya Suzuki and Michael Busch were the catalysts, and when everyone clicks, they can be fatal. But sometimes it's like pressing the “Tax Insurance” button on a perfectly formulated sentence, and the offensive production disappears without trace. Deleting these days will be important, and Nico Hoerner and Michel Busch used as Leadoff men last week, which indicates that he is not satisfied with the status quo.

Crow-Armstrong with an MVP caliber season is the largest that the Cubs have passed since Bryants Rookie season in 2015, and was introduced to the rest of the world at the all-star game, doubled in his first fox enemy and avoided a cubbie event, while Mic'd led under U-by-fox-fox-fox-Fuch.