Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show - Cubs rout Padres, 23-3

Episode Date: July 2, 2026

Leila Rahimi and Dustin Rhoades discussed the Cubs' offensive explosion in a 23-3 win against the Padres on Wednesday afternoon at Wrigley Field.

The views and opinions of Laila Rahimi, Marshall Harris, and Mark Grotty should not be taken too seriously. Especially when they give advice. Do not take Marshall's analogies, literally. Especially when it comes to Russell Dorsey. The sports thoughts of Rahimi Harrison Grody may change at any time. It's just sports. Gay thanks. Bye.

Rahimi Harrison Grody. 10 to 2 on 1043, the score. Chicago Cubs baseball is on the air from Wrigley Field in Chicago. It's a scorching summer day at the friendly confines. 91 degrees, and the Cubs are as hot as the weather looking for their fifth consecutive win. Sayya, with 12 homers for the year, hits a fly ball. Left center field and deep. This ball's got a chance.

It's gone. Three-run Homer, Sayya, Suzuki, number 100 for his career. Deep drive to left off the bat of Dansby, Swindsworth. That is a long home run. And the Cubs lead 4 to nothing. A few moments later. And Danesby drives one in the air to center field. It's well hit.

Back goes Merrill to the wall. It's gone. Another home run for Danesby Swanson. And the Cubs take a commanding nine to nothing lead. But wait. Dish Blot. Here comes the two O. Conforto hits a line.

Line drive, deep left center field, Merrill looks up, it's in the basket. Two-run, home run, Michael Conforto. And it is now 15 to 2 Cubs over the Padres in the 6th. No, we're not done. Danesby Swanson the batter, hits a fly ball into deep left center. Back toward the wall, Grand Slam. Dansby Swanson with a grand slam to left. He has three home runs.

and eight runs batted in for the day. And the Cubs lead 22 to 3. Now the 3-2 to Taylor from Wix. Hit on the ground a short. Danesby Swanson makes the play. Cubs win the ball game. It's an easy one today. 23 to 3.

They finish off a three-game sweep over San Diego. The Cubs have won five in a row. they have won nine of their last 10 and 15 of their last 19. Marshall Harris, Mark Grody, midday's 10 a.m. 2 on Chicago Sports Radio 1043, the score. Welcome on this holiday eve, or maybe you are already celebrating the 250th birthday of our nation. This is Brahimi Harrison Grody. On 1043, the score, it is Laylorahimmy and Dustin William, William Rhodes, hang it out with me. for the first hour of the show.

How are you, Leila? Thanks for letting me be here. Yeah, I might have already been heading back to the burbs and maybe opening up my first Mick Ultra of the long holiday weekend. Red, white and blue can, right? So we could celebrate that. You've got a big red, white and blue can that you're celebrating, what, tonight or tomorrow night? Tomorrow night.

Fresh Budweiser. That is, yeah. We're doing a Budweiser bar crawl. I think I can call it that, where you can win Cubs and Cardinals tickets. Big, big deal. That's a big series. five different locations around town. We're going from Navy Pier to West Loop,

and then all the way up, we'll end it at Gaslight on North Clark. We're going to start at the, I think we're starting, I got to look, because there's five places. We're starting at Navy Pier, actually, at five o'clock.

So it's Billy Goe Tavern, then it's Crossroads Bar and Grill on West Madison at 540. So can we Seinfeld Frogger our way from Navy Pier all the way to Crossroads, by 540. They gave us 20 minutes.

So that's also the challenge. I hope you have a very good Uber driver or is Ryan Porth manning the 104-3 FM score vehicle. Okay. So right city or right city wrong zip code. Okay. Mitch Rosen is manning the... Mitch is zipping you around. Yeah.

Interesting. So we joke that it's Mitchie shuffle practice where you're going to learn how to Irish goodbye. There you go. Yeah. I think I'm pretty decent at it, but nobody's as good as Mitch. Nobody is as good as Mitch. Nope. So it's Billy Go Tavern.

Then it's Crossroads Bar and Grill. Then it's the rabbit hole on North Wells. The reveler on North Damon at 7 and Gaslight on North Clark at 740. So yeah, I'm definitely looking forward to it. It's a good way to get your holiday weekend going. But yeah, my friends are like, oh, what are your plans for Friday? And I'm like, well, I have this. I'm like, I'm like, I'm working.

And they're like, oh, what are you doing the show? And I'm like, no, I have a bar crawl. And they're like, that's not work, Leila. And that's just one of those days for us. It's not, it's not, it's not being outside. and like cutting lawns or tarring roofs and the, you know, heat dome that's covering us still. It's a commitment. That's a good way to put it. I get to show up and hang out. Yeah, so hang out with me. I'll give you a little more details. They're also on our Twitter and they're on the score page and the score Instagram. And Dustin, the reason you're like, thank you for having me. And I'm always happy to talk Cubs with you. I'm a loyal listener to the pregame show. Thank you. Thank you. So hopefully you're not up that early. Maybe you're using that rewind feature, but I appreciate it. I'm a 6 a.m. Riser or not five. But I will.

say that I did not expect. Like if you were giving me the score, and I mentioned this earlier, we had great fans over at Gallagher Way yesterday. I bet. And the estimate I had was like, okay, maybe another nine to seven game. You know, I could see that happening. We knew the win was going to be a factor. I did not expect 23 to 3. And for, by the way, Colin Ray on his birthday to go out and yet again be the guy. How about that? Happy 36th birthday to Colin Ray. It gets out of two bases loaded jams. You just mentioned the 23 runs that Cubs put up. So the Padres, who might be the second or third most disappointing team in the National League this year, clearly behind the Mets would be number one, right? Yeah. With a bullet,

they're number one. I just don't know if the fan base in San Diego is good enough to be that upset, but they've got a lot of big name people on that team and their owner doesn't shy away from spending the Do Re Mi. So they have been just horrifically bad. And obviously every time the Padre come to town. You've got the Tatis Jr. thing, his connection to the White Sox. Of course. So you always have to reference that. The many machado sweep stakes that the Cubs were partially in. The point is, is that Colin Ray was pitching in the same conditions that the Padres pitchers were pitching in. So they didn't like roll over a dome over Wrigley Field and try to mess with the weather. It was hot. It was humid. What, Wrigley Field wins. That Twitter account

showed wind gus of almost 20 plus miles an hour. You guys were there live. Maybe your tent was flickering a little bit in the wind. Yeah. We put up a partition to just block from the sun. We figured out how to construct an apartment over at Gallagher Way after all the shows we did last year. Very nice. And we did have, we did have a side partition because poor Marshall, his computer wouldn't even work in the sun when it hits on that side of Gallagher way. Okay. He was on the outside closest to the home plate entrance.

Gotcha. And at some points, the wind was so strong that the partition was blowing apart. We've got it figured out. But yeah, you're right. The wind was an absolute factor. But you know, Dustin, you're so. right to bring up the fact that it wasn't just a factor for the winning team. You know what I go back to is that series almost, it was a year ago.

It was the late June Seattle series when they were just an absolute offensive buzzsaw. And they came in and they did not stop it wriggling. It was hot. It was steamy. The wind was blowing. And everybody talked about how good Seattle was in the weather. Well, the Cubs were hitting in the same weather. And they didn't have the same luck then.

And we did not see that in this series. They swept that thing with a bullet, man. That was awesome. They needed that. But it's amazing. At the end of May, they were really struggling. And if you would have told me that when we woke up on June 30th, they were 10 games over 500. But still five and a half behind the Brewers, I would have said no.

So as well as the Cubs have been playing, the Brewers just don't. Stop. They just don't lose. It's an amazing story. up there. And they're almost, not quite yet with me, I'd love to hear what others think. They're not quite the team I dislike

the most in the National League Central. That is still the Cardinals. They are coming to Wrigley this weekend. I don't like their fans. I like a lot of other things about St. Louis. It's a fine place to visit for a weekend. They're not the best fans in baseball. No, no, they're not the best fans. I don't like their fans. No, I don't like their fans.

I still dislike them more than the Brewers, because they're a longer rival. I mean, remember, I mean, the Brewers used to playing the American League. Yes. Yeah, that was the old Bud Seelig special. And then we saw the Astros later switch from the NL to the AL.

I do agree with you, Dustin. Like the Cardinal series is all important, especially after just the egg they laid the last time they got to face them. We were so hype for that series. And it did not deliver. But wasn't it around this time last year? And I know we're up against it. I'm going to be

the bad on-air host. Hell yeah, Dustin. This is your time now. Push the break. He's the captain. Wasn't it right around the 4th of July when the Cardinals were in town and the Cubs absolutely bombed them? There was some big home runs, some big Grand Slambs. I think it might have been actually on the 4th of July at Wrigley Field. Double-digit runs on the 4th of July last year.

They absolutely clobbered them, so let's hope they can duplicate that. I remember that because it was a Friday game on 4th of July and they were in the special edition, right blue blues hoodie uniforms. I want to say Patrick Wisdom might have had a big day that day, might have had a grand slam. That was 20. Baby Tee, we got to open up that box for a baby T. Was that the 2023 one you were talking about with that? Patrick Wisdom, that's two years ago, right?

No, that was two years ago. But the one from last year, last year was the Cardinals. It was Michael Bush. Michael Bush was Dominating. But it was Michael Bush, Carson Kelly, and there was someone else. They had like a big three that. To the internet. I've got it right here.

Cubs Cardinals July 4th last year. 113, eight home runs, a franchise record. Michael Bush had three, three home runs. PCA 2, Suzuki, Conforto and Swanson, or not Conforto, I don't know why that says that, but PCA hit 2 and Suzuki and Swanson also added in on the phone. Because AI's

weird and conflate stuff with games. It can't separate all the game info sometimes. It's true. Disclamor I did put 2025. No, no, you did, but I'm saying AI sees it all as the same. It doesn't know how to differentiate between games like that. That's why you, a human, is still superior right

now because you don't have that bad of a game differentiation setup. Our hour, by the way, is brought to you by Cars for Kids. You just heard Dustin Rhodes. Tyler Ferengal and Ray Diaz are our producers today. Dustin is helping out for this hour. We are looking forward to talking more baseball with him. We got to get into a special segment next studying Dansby Swanson. In the meantime, this is Rahimi Harrison Grotty. We broadcast live from our score Hyundai Studios brought to you by your local Hyundai dealers. Breaking News on the score sponsored by IDOT. Running late. Speeding will not save you time. No need to speed.

it's not a game. Peter Jurich, our intern is helping us out as well. And we're on Twitch. Twitch.tv.tv.tv.tv.tv.combe slash the score Chicago, YouTube 2. Dustin is waving to you. You can see him now. Special guest host. Our Twitch mob is up and chatting. Our video producers are Connor O'Donnell, Jacob Stutz, Max Curtis, and Cody Westerlin, working hard for you every day. So we'll get into yet another Dan's Bee game. It's great to talk about. We'll examine what we can about what the changes have been. He sounds like he's not ready to talk about it, but we are, so we'll do it next.