Cubs 8, Reds 3: Shōta Imanaga and Michael Conforto lead the team to its ninth straight win
And the Cubs have also won 15 consecutive home games.
I’m running out of superlatives to describe what the 2026 Chicago Cubs are doing, but I’m certainly going to try, because the Cubs keep topping themselves every single day. On a coolish Thursday afternoon at Wrigley Field, the Cubs decided they’d had enough of late-inning comebacks and walk-off wins and instead dominated the Reds in nearly every aspect of the game, winning 8-3. That gave the Cubs a four-game sweep, nine wins in a row and 15 consecutive victories at Wrigley Field.
The latter streak is the second-longest home winning streak for the Cubs in the Modern Era. Let’s begin at the beginning. Shōta Imanaga had s solid first two innings, allowing a single in each but also striking out a pair in each.
The first five Cubs went down in order. The sixth, Michael Conforto, gave the Cubs a 1-0 lead with his second homer of this series [VIDEO] . Your browser does not support the video tag.
The wind was shifting all over the place during the game. At the time of Conforto’s homer, it was blowing in pretty good — he nailed that blast at 105 miles per hour. Imanaga allowed one more hit in the third and issued a walk in the fourth.
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