Matthew Boyd’s Dominating Performance Silences Angels: Cubs Rise in Stunning Showdown
Boyd allowed another single to Neto in the sixth — after he struck out the first two hitters — and when Mike Trout then walked, Boyd was removed to applause from the maybe 10,000 (of 25,125 paid) who showed up in the miserable conditions. Both runners scored, unfortunately. Hunter Harvey’s first pitch to Jo Adell was hit for a single up the middle and then a ball hit by Jorge Soler went under Bregman’s glove for an error, making one of the two runs unearned.
This was an outstanding outing from Boyd [VIDEO].
Here are Boyd’s 10 strikeouts [VIDEO].
More on Boyd’s 10-K outing from BCB’s JohnW53:
Matthew Boyd is the 24th different Cub to strike out at least seven batters in each of his first two starts of a season. The previous five had been Travis Wood, in 2014; Jon Lackey, Jon Lester and Jose Quintana, all in 2017; and Tyler Chatwood, in 2020.
All of their streaks ended in their third start. The last to go beyond two games was Rich Harden, who went four games in 2009. He had set the team record of five games in 2008. He, Mark Prior and Kerry Wood all did it in two seasons.
Only one Cub notched double-digit strikeouts last season: Colin Rea, who had 11 in 7.0 innings of a 1-0 loss at Cincinnati on Sept. 18. He was the first in more than a year, since Shota Imanaga had 11 in 6.0 at home vs. the Athletics on Sept. 16, 2024. That was the Cubs’ sixth such game of 2024: three by Imanaga and one each by Ben Brown, Justin Steele and Jameson Taillon.
Harvey continued in relief in the seventh, retiring the side in order. The Cubs scored a sixth run in the seventh. Kelly led off with a routine fly ball to center that was dropped by Trout. That was really odd; it didn’t look like Trout had trouble with the wind, he just dropped the ball. Kelly wound up on second. He went to third on a single by Busch, and one out later scored on this Shaw single [VIDEO].
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