Cubs’ Jacob Webb featured in “Heroes and Goats” after extra-inning win over the Cardinals

The Cubs put an extra-inning lead together and, this time, carried it home against the Cardinals, according to the latest “Cubs Heroes and Goats” recap from Yahoo Sports. The piece centers on the club’s choice of standout moments from the game, framing the evening as a matchup where momentum mattered, then mattered again when the game continued into the later innings.

In the Heroes and Goats format, Cubs broadcasts and beat follow-ups often break down key swing plays through win probability added, or WPA, a way of measuring how particular actions shift a team’s odds of winning. In this installment, Jacob Webb is identified as the “Superhero,” with the recap pointing readers to the WPA numbers and the decisive plays that fed into the hero narrative.

The recap also makes clear that the Cubs’ ability to hold an extra-inning advantage was the central theme. Extra innings reduce the margin for error, and the editorial premise of Heroes and Goats is essentially to separate the sequences that changed the most from the sequences that simply filled time. In this case, the game’s defining stretches were clustered around the later-inning phases in which the Cubs maintained control rather than letting the Cardinals back in.

Yahoo Sports’ entry is also designed as an interactive feature for readers. The author notes an accompanying poll so fans can vote on their own “Player of the Game” choice, effectively turning a single-game recap into a comparison between what the metrics say and what the crowd feels mattered most.

The article further references the ongoing “Rizzo Award” standings, a separate tracking format that the Cubs community has used for its own in-season storytelling. The writer indicates that Thomas will return to update those standings after the Heroes and Goats post, suggesting this game is not only relevant for immediate bragging rights but also for the broader running tally the writers use to keep score over time.

Beyond the format itself, the larger sports picture is straightforward: in late-season MLB, the difference between taking a win in extra innings and losing one in extra innings can swing how a bullpen and late-game rotation are viewed by fans and analysts alike. When a specific figure is framed as the Superhero, it usually indicates that the late-leverage moments were where the team separated itself, even if individual plays can still be debated.

As this is a feature-style recap rather than an official box score summary, readers should treat the emphasis and rankings as interpretive and format-driven. The Cubs’ next step from here is less about one label than about turning late-game execution into consistency, especially when the team’s season depends on how often it can convert close, high-leverage situations into wins. Fans voting in the poll may get a quick sense of where the clubhouse story and the crowd narrative overlap, and where they diverge.