There was a brief moment in Busch Stadium on Friday when the roar of the crowd softened, as fans waited to locate the baseball. When Cubs center fielder Mike Tauchman popped up from the warning track flexing and howling, all questions were answered.
Tauchman made the kind of game-ending catch that will forever be part of Cubs-Cardinals lore. In the immediate picture, it was a game-saving grab to rob Alec Burleson of a walk-off blast, an exclamation point on a 3-2 comeback win that stretched Chicago’s winning streak to seven games.
“It’s kind of like you have that internal clock or feeling of, ‘I’ve kind of got to go up now,’” Tauchman said. “And it kind of just coincided with the ball coming down. I didn’t know, I guess, that I was right at the wall until I kind of turned to catch the ball.”
