This series ended with the Cubs winning two of three, taking the rubber game 4-3 Sunday afternoon when Dansby Swanson’s sacrifice fly scored Carson Kelly in the eighth inning.

The Pirates aren’t a very good team. So why did this entire weekend feel like such a titanic struggle?

Sheesh. Anyway, Javier Assad got through the first two innings without incident, then the Cubs put a run on the board in the bottom of the second. Pete Crow-Armstrong reached on an error and advanced to second on a wild pitch.

Ian Happ’s single scored PCA [VIDEO].

The Pirates tied the game up in the third on a single by Isiah Kiner-Falefa and double by Spencer Horwitz. Assad got himself into trouble with traffic on the bases in the fourth, too, but got out of the inning scoreless. Assad’s line of four innings, f

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