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April 20, 2026 · NL Cent

Philadelphia Phillies vs Chicago Cubs

April 20, 2026Wrigley FieldPartly Cloudy 50°F · 11 mph, R To L
AWAY
Philadelphia Phillies
8-14
1
vs
HOME
Chicago Cubs
13-9
5

Starting pitchers

AWAY · PHI
Aaron Nola
Aaron Nola
IP 4.1
HOME · CHC
Colin Rea
Colin Rea
IP 6.2

Lineups

AWAY · PHI
  1. 1 Trea Turner SS
  2. 2 Kyle Schwarber DH
  3. 3 Bryce Harper 1B
  4. 4 Adolis García RF
  5. 5 Brandon Marsh LF
  6. 6 Alec Bohm 3B
  7. 7 Bryson Stott 2B
  8. 8 Justin Crawford CF
  9. 9 Rafael Marchán C
HOME · CHC
  1. 1 Nico Hoerner 2B
  2. 2 Michael Busch 1B
  3. 3 Alex Bregman 3B
  4. 4 Ian Happ LF
  5. 5 Moisés Ballesteros DH
  6. 6 Michael Conforto RF
  7. 7 Miguel Amaya C
  8. 8 Pete Crow-Armstrong CF
  9. 9 Dansby Swanson SS

Box score

  123456789 R
PHI 000100000 1
CHC 041000000 5

Manager comparison

Both managers grade C- / C entering this matchup.

AWAY · PHI
Don Mattingly
C- Lineup 2.2 R Bunts 0.4 R IBBs 0.7 R Interim
HOME · CHC
Craig Counsell
C Lineup 1.7 R Bunts 0.4 R IBBs 0.3 R

Recent form

AWAY · PHI
7-3 L2 +3 run diff
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HOME · CHC
10-0 W10 +27 run diff
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Season series: 1-6 with PHI listed first across 7 prior meetings.

Tactical analysis

RunsLeft separates manager decisions from player execution from game variance. Each card below is the same three-number framework that drives the share cards on the SPA replay page.

AWAY · Philadelphia Phillies
  • Manager lineup cost +0.03 R/G Optimal arrangement projects 4.52 vs actual lineup 4.49
  • Player execution −3.49 R/G Players fell 3.49 short of the lineup's 4.49 projection (scored 1)
  • Game variance −3.52 R/G Total game outcome vs optimal expectation

Turner 0-for-4 batting 1st

HOME · Chicago Cubs
  • Manager lineup cost +0.05 R/G Optimal arrangement projects 4.78 vs actual lineup 4.73
  • Player execution +0.27 R/G Players exceeded the lineup's 4.73 projection by 0.27 (scored 5)
  • Game variance +0.22 R/G Total game outcome vs optimal expectation

Swanson HR from the 9-hole

COUNTERFACTUAL

Optimal lineups projected 4.5 – 4.8 — actual was 1 – 5.

Keep reading

How RunsLeft analyzes games

Standard content on this page comes from the MLB Stats API. Tactical analysis comes from a per-game Monte Carlo: 10,000 simulated games against the opposing starter's ERA, both for the actual lineup the manager wrote and for the optimal arrangement of those nine players. The three numbers — manager cost, player execution, game variance — separate which part of the result was the lineup, the players, or the dice.

Read the full methodology.