Chicago Cubs at Los Angeles Dodgers

The Cubs know that the road to the World Series likely runs through Dodger Stadium. And on Friday night, the North Siders rolled into Los Angeles and put up the kind of fight against the two-time defending champions that would look right at home on the October stage. One day after delivering his first walk-off hit as a member of the Cubs, Dansby Swanson capped off a wild comeback with a go-ahead, two-run homer off Dodgers lefty Tanner Scott in the ninth inning. The blast sent Chicago on its way to a 6-4 victory that ran the team’s Major League-best winning streak to an even 10 games. “He’s always had the juice,” Cubs starter Jameson Taillon said. “But lately, it just seems like everything he’s hitting is on the nose, and he’s doing it against really good pitching, too.” The 10-game run marks the longest winning streak for the Cubs since an 11-game streak from July 31-Aug. 12, 2016. It is the longest winning streak in April for Chicago since the 1970 campaign. Swanson’s game-changing home run -- his sixth shot of the year and fifth in the past dozen games -- was the finishing touch on a six-run outburst for the Cubs over the final three innings. Swanson also delivered a two-run triple off Alex Vesia in a three-run push in the seventh, and made a diving catch up the middle to rob Kyle Tucker of a hit one frame earlier.