Ben Brown has been the ever essence of a roller coaster during his time with the Cubs. Injuries have sort of forced him into a role that some definitely don’t want him in however on Wednesday he came up clutch.

The Padres were threatening with the bases loaded after Corbin Martin walked the first 3 batters he faced. Brown was thrown into a deep hole facing the duo of Fernando Tatis Jr and Manny Machado.

He got Tatis to fly out to center for the sac fly to make it 5-4. Machado stepped up and hit a dribbler to Matt Shaw who delivered an unassisted double play to end the inning and strand the runners on the corners.

Brown started the 9th striking out Xander Bogaerts and inducing a ground ball from Ty France. Craig Counsell then decided to pull Brown for the lefty lefty matchup with Ramon Laureano. Milner struck him out and the Cubs escaped San Diego with a series win and a 3-3 road trip against arguably the two best teams in the NL. currently.

You will absolutely take that especially with the continued pile up of pitching injuries.