Chicago Cubs at Boston Red Sox

· Doubleheader - Game 2

Chicago Cubs

88-73, 42-38 Away

Final
0 - 2

Boston Red Sox

87-74, 41-39 Home

Red Sox beat Cubs 2-0 to sweep doubleheader after setting Wild Card Series matchup with Yankees

Red Sox sweep doubleheader with 2-0 Game 2 win over Cubs

Brayan Bello allowed four hits over four innings and rookie Jedixson Páez (1-1) gave up three hits in five innings with four strikeouts in his first big league win.

Chicago dropped two games back of San Diego for the top NL wild card. The Padres hosted Arizona later Friday.

Javier Assad (6-2) was the loser. Chicago starter David Petersen allowed three hits over five innings and struck out six.

In the first game, Connor Wong hit a tiebreaking double in the seventh inning, to help the Red Sox rally from a three-run deficit in a 4-3 win that clinched the No. 5 seed in the AL playoffs.

Boston will play its Wild Card Series for the second year in a row at the New York Yankees, who won last season’s best-of-three matchup 2-1. It will be the seventh Red Sox-Yankees postseason series.

Friday’s opener was originally scheduled for Sunday afternoon but was moved up because a significant storm was forecast. The series finale, which had been slated for Saturday night, will now be played on Sunday afternoon in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Up Next Neither team had announced Sunday pitching plans.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Hoerner grounded out to third.
	9th Inning	Happ struck out looking.
	9th Inning	Conforto popped out to shortstop.
	8th Inning	Sogard grounded out to second.
	8th Inning	Story walked.
	8th Inning	Hollowell relieved Rolison

Statistics

CHC		BOS
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
11	Ground Balls	6
7	Strikeouts	10
0	Runs Batted In	2
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
7	Hits	4
0	Stolen Bases	1
1	Walks	5
0	Catcher Interference	0
0	Runs	2
2	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
32	At Bats	27
0	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
14	Runners Left On Base	15
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	1
14	Fly Balls	11
0	Caught Stealing	0
135	Pitches	145
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
7	Total Bases	5
33	Plate Appearances	32
0.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
0	Extra Base Hits	1
0.7	Runs Created	1.4
.219	Batting Average	.148
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.219	Slugging Percentage	.185
.031	Secondary Average	.259
.242	On Base Percentage	.281
.461	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.466
0.8	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.5
0.7	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	1.6
7.0	Batter Rating	15.0
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
4.09	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.53
.000	Isolated Power	.037
0.14	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.50
.030	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.156
-.188	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.111
0.0	Runs Produced	4.0
0.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.2	Patience Ratio	0.3
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.2
65.3	MLB Rating	65.3
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0