Given how the first three games of this set had gone — Milwaukee had won 2 of them by using its bats to bury Chicago's arms — the setup pointed toward another track meet. Instead the market got a game that behaved nothing like the series had all week.
Chicago's bullpen made it hold up. The Cubs scored their 2 runs in a bunch in the 3rd inning and then just needed 6 more shutout frames from arms operating without their top late-inning options at full strength. Milwaukee answered with a single run in the 4th and stranded traffic the rest of the way, managing only 5 hits against a Chicago staff that had been torched twice already this week.
The Polymarket chat room for this one drew nearly double the season's typical crowd, and it showed in the recap. One poster nailed the score outright late — "Think this game ending 1-2" — and as the final outs came off the board another wrote, "gg boys I'll see you when my next paycheck hits lol."
It's one loss in a season Milwaukee has otherwise run away with, and Henderson's track record doesn't get erased by a single quiet Wrigley night. But for Chicago, getting a scoreless final 6 innings out of the bullpen — with Webb compromised and Brown done for the year — was as good a sign as anything they've shown all series.