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Bregman

Bregman now has 23 home runs on the year. He hit a pair of shots off Kyle Harrison in the second and fourth innings before adding another blast off a position player pitching in the eighth inning. Bregman now has 12 home runs in his last 23 games and has two games with three home runs in that span. He’s hitting .258 with a .785 OPS and 77 this season.

Bregman did his damage in the opening inning, crushing an 0-2 curveball from Andrew Abbott for a 416-foot (102.3-mph EV) two-run shot that increased the Cubs’ lead to 3-0 before an out had been recorded. He added an RBI single in the fourth inning and a double in the ninth for good measure. On the season, the 32-year-old third baseman is now slashing .255/.344/.422 with the aforementioned 20 long balls and 73 RBI on the season.

Bregman struck out in the first inning to give Kade Anderson his first career punchout. In the sixth, he gave Anderson his first career home run allowed, taking him deep for a game-tying solo blast. It was Bregman’s third home run in the last two games after slugging two in Friday’s contest. The 32-year-old third baseman is hitting .258/.347/.423 with 19 homers, 72 runs scored, and 67 RBI across 580 plate appearances.

Bregman had a two-run homer in the first and a game-tying solo shot off Andrés Muñoz in the ninth, but it wasn’t quite enough for the Cubs tonight. He now has 18 homers for the season. 11 of those have come in his last 34 games.

All three of Bregman’s home runs came off Nationals relievers. His first home run was a three-run shot in the fifth inning before he added two-run home runs in the sixth and eighth innings. Bregman is now 26-for-67 (.388) with six home runs, 17 RBI, 19 runs scored and a stolen base over his last 16 games. Still in the middle of perhaps his worst hitting season in his career, it wouldn’t be a surprise if Bregman’s bat were to stay hot for the final two months of the season.

Bregman continues to swing a hot stick after his disappointing first half with the Cubbies, and he was able to reach three times with a homer, single and walk in this contest. He came into Tuesday’s contest with just a .712 OPS in the month of August, but he’s driving the ball much more consistently than he was in the first few months of the season. Don’t be surprised if Bregman continues to roll through the final two months and finishes among the better fantasy third baseman in 2026.

Bregman accounted for three of the 18 hits Chicago totaled in Kansas City, continuing his productive second half. He has yet to get blistering hot, but his recent play has been an improvement over a below-average first half. Bregman remains an everyday player batting in the heart of one of baseball’s highest-scoring lineups, and the counting stats have added up to strong fantasy production lately.

Pete-Crow Armstrong scored the winning run on a throwing error that took place while he was stealing third in the 11th. Bregman’s dramatic homer came with two outs in the ninth and resulted in Louis Varland’s first blown save of the year. The surge isn’t fully backed up by his exit velocity numbers, but Bregman is hitting .299 with five homers and nine doubles in his last 21 games. He also stole a base today, giving him three that season. That matches his high total since 2019.

Bregman smacked a one-out double off of Andre Pallante in the fourth inning and scored the Cubs’ first run on an error by Lars Nootbaar. He then poked an RBI double into right field off of Luis Gastelum to give the Cubs the lead in the 10th before scoring on Ian Happ’s RBI double. The 32-year-old third baseman is now hitting .248/.341/.381 with 11 home runs, 47 RBI and a pair of stolen bases in his first 487 plate appearances with the Cubs.

One day after picking up four hits against the Cardinals, Bregman added three more in a blowout victory for the Cubs. The 32-year-old doubled — his 18th of the season — and singled twice, while improving his season line to .245/.339/.374 in his first season with the Cubbies. That’s still nowhere close to what Bregman and Chicago were hoping for when they signed the infielder to his massive deal, but it’s beyond possible we’ll see more efforts like this from Bregman over the final two-plus months. He’s too good a hitter to have a slash that poor.