With home field in the Wild Card Series against the Padres on the line Saturday on another gorgeous late-September afternoon at Wrigley Field, Michael Busch put the team on his proverbial shoulders. He homered twice, tripled, doubled and drove in four runs as the Cubs defeated the Cardinals 7-3, clinching that home field. Thus the Cubs and Padres will meet beginning Tuesday at Wrigley Field, time TBD. (If I had to guess right now, I’d say that game will be mid-afternoon, but we’ll find out for sure likely on Monday.)

On to this one. Jameson Taillon had a bit of baserunning traffic in the first and then Busch got right to work, hitting Michael McGreevy’s very first pitch out of the yard [VIDEO].

From that we have the first of several fun facts from BCB’s JohnW53:

Michael Busch’s home run

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