Tuesday night’s game at Wrigley Field is one that will be talked about for years to come.

But one reason Cubs fans had to sweat out a comeback win over the Los Angeles Dodgers was two costly errors by Chicago rookie third baseman Gage Workman.

The miscues led to four unearned runs in the Cubs’ 11-10 victory.

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Workman made an error on the very first play of the game when he couldn’t handle a ground ball with funky spin off Shohei Ohtani’s bat. The Dodgers ended up scoring three runs in the inning — all with two outs.

Then in the seventh, Workman couldn’t corral a ground ball with the bases loaded and the Cubs nursing a 7-5 lead. A run scored on the play, and the Dodgers scored four more times in the frame as they capitalized on the momentum.

“Yeah, there was some mistakes tonight,” Cubs manager Craig Counsell said after the game. “The first ball to lead off the game was hit on the end of the bat. So [it] probably took a weird hop. The second play, it’s got to be made. Not an easy play, but it’s got to be made.

“That was an unfortunate part of the game. I thought the rest of the game, we did a lot of things well, but that was unfortunate.”

Those were Workman’s second and third errors of the season, and he has played just 32 innings at third base.

Workman also could have been charged with another error during last Friday’s wild win over the Arizona Diamondbacks. He let a ball under his glove amid Arizona’s 10-run eighth inning on a play that ultimately was ruled a double but probably should have been scored an error.

The Cubs’ offense was able to rally to bail out Workman in both instances, but it’s unrealistic to expect the lineup to post 11 or 13 runs per game. The Cubs are a team built on run prevention, and to get where they want to go — playing meaningful baseball in October — they will need to play clean defense.

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Workman was a Rule 5 Draft selection in December, and the Cubs opted to keep him on the 26-man big-league roster after he had a strong showing in spring training. The 25-year-old never had played above Double-A before the 2025 season, but he was known as a strong defender throughout the minors and actually began his career as a shortstop.

The Cubs started the year with rookie Matt Shaw seeing the bulk of the playing time at third base. But the team sent him down to the minors for more seasoning last week and since have rotated Workman, Jon Berti, Justin Turner and Vidal Bruján at the hot corner.

The Cubs and Dodgers close out their season series Wednesday night at Wrigley Field. Coverage begins at 5 p.m. CT on Marquee Sports Network.