Ian Happ and the Chicago Cubs play the Texas Rangers on Monday at Wrigley Field. Nathan Eovaldi will start for Texas, with first pitch at 7:40 p.m. ET. The Cubs are third-best in baseball with 17 total home runs. Rangers pitchers have a combined ERA of 2.93 ERA this year, fifth-best in baseball.

Even that most legendary of all Cubs, the late Dallas-born Ernie Banks, might have chosen his words carefully on Monday. Nobody wanted to play two. Whether the Rangers even wanted to play one was in question.

Cubs second. Michael Busch doubles to left field. Dansby Swanson out on a sacrifice bunt to shallow infield, Nathan Eovaldi to Jake Burger. Michael Busch to third. Miguel Amaya out on a sacrifice fly to deep center field to Kevin Pillar. Michael Busch scores. Pete Crow-Armstrong grounds out to first base, Marcus Semien to Nathan Eovaldi.