Miguel Amaya had given Chicago its cushion with a 2-run homer in the 5th, but Pittsburgh's answer the very next inning erased it. Reynolds' leadoff walk and two more Pirates hits tied the game, and Lowe's pinch-hit single put Pittsburgh back in front for good; Nico Hoerner's run-scoring groundout later in the frame only trimmed the final margin to 4-3.
Pete Crow-Armstrong provided the other storyline, losing two well-struck balls to Wrigley's wind — a 371-foot drive to right field in the 3rd that died in Jake Mangum's glove at the warning track, and a 389-foot shot to center in the 5th that Oneil Cruz ran down. "You got to expect that playing here," Crow-Armstrong said afterward. "It's been a pretty friendly park all year, so I was probably due for a couple of those."
None of it moved the standings much — Pittsburgh's postseason math was already all but dead walking in, and Chicago's Wild Card position was never in real doubt. But the finish still had teeth, and the Polymarket chat treated it that way: the room's busiest stretch of the whole game landed right as that sixth inning broke open, with nearly 200 messages in five minutes.
Pittsburgh leaves Wrigley with a series loss but a finale worth pointing to, salvaging one game for a roster that's spent the stretch patching together its bullpen and outfield. For Chicago, Sunday was proof that even a comfortably positioned club can get burned by a thin relief crew against a team still playing with real urgency.