Cubs fans’ cheers reached a fever pitch Monday night at Wrigley Field in the bottom of the seventh inning, when it briefly looked like the team had tied the game against the Reds. A replay review, however, overturned the safe call at first: Dansby Swanson had stepped short of the base, and the inning was over.

Dansby Swanson will be haunted by this base-running blunder for a little while. The Cubs’ shortstop missed getting his foot on first base in the seventh inning after hitting a chopper to third base and seeming to beat out the throw, thus driving in the game-tying run.

Jameson Taillon pitched six effective innings in his return from a calf injury, and the Chicago Cubs beat the Milwaukee Brewers 4-1 for a sweep of their split doubleheader.

Since being signed by the Chicago Cubs in free agency ahead of the 2023 season, shortstop Dansby Swanson has not quite produced at the level the team had hoped

Dansby Swanson gushed over his wife Mallory Swanson when speaking with PEOPLE exclusively about his partnership with DQ for Miracle Treat Day on Thursday, July 31.

The Cubs would go on to lose by that same 3-2 score, meaning that Swanson’s (literal) misstep proved to be the difference. As a result of the mistake by the two-time All-Star Swanson, Chicago ...