Orlando Arcia 4-for-4 As Brewers Dump Cubs; Walker Buehler Blanks Rockies, Dodgers Win West

Players of the Day for Monday, October 1, 2017

Arcia: 4-for-4, 2 runs

National League

The Milwaukee Brewers completed their run-down of the Cubs in the NL Central, winning their eighth straight game to capture the division title with a 3-1 tie-breaker win at Chicago Monday.

Orlando Arcia stroked four singles in four at-bats and scored two of Milwaukee's runs in the division-clincher. Arcia came home on Christian Yelich's single in the third to open the game's scoring and scored the go-ahead run in the eighth after Chicago's Anthony Rizzo had tied it at 1-all in the fifth. Lorenzo Cain delivered Arcia, and also scored an insurance run in the eighth on a Ryan Braun single.

Josh Bader worked a two-inning save, putting the Cubs down in order in the eighth and surrendering a two-out single to Jose Baez in the ninth. Rizzo flied out to right field to end the game.

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Buehler: 6 2/3 scoreless

Rookie hurler, Walker Buehler, took a no-hitter into the sixth inning, and gave up just one hit, blanking the Rockies over 6 2/3 innings as the Dodgers wrapped up the NL West with a 5-2 victory over Colorado in the single-game tie-breaker.

Charlie Blackmon broke up the no-hit bid with a single through the infield with one out in the sixth.

Thanks to two-run homers by Cody Bollinger and Max Muncy in the fourth and fifth innings and another run in the sixth, Buehler worked into the seventh with a five-run lead, getting two outs before walking Carlos Gonzalez. He was lifted for reliever, Pedro Baez, who walked Ian Desmond but finished the frame by getting Matt Holliday to pop out to short, ending the threat.

Buehler struck out three and walked three throwing 93 pitches, 59 of which went for strikes.

The Rockies finally did hit the scoreboard in the top of the ninth, on back-to-back home runs by Nolan Arenado and Trevor Story off Dodger closer Kenley Jansen, but the Dodger pitcher regrouped and finished the job, making the Dodgers the NL West champion for the sixth straight season.

The Cubs will host the Rockies in the NL wild card game Tuesday at 8:00 pm EDT, while the Brewers, thanks to their late-season surge, will have home field advantage throughout their NL playoff run. Milwaukee will host the winner of the wild card game in one of the two division series, while the the Dodgers will host the Atlanta Braves in the other. The Atlanta-LA series begins Thursday.

American League

There were no games in the American League on Monday. The AL wild card game is Wednesday, October 3, at Yankee Stadium in New York City with the Yankees playing the Oakland A's.