MESA, Arizona — Sure, wins in Spring Training don’t mean anything.

Well, not much, anyway. Because the way this Cubs team came back to win has to count for something, if nothing more than confidence-building.

They spotted the D-backs a 2-0 lead and didn’t have a hit through the first four innings. But then a couple of home runs and some sketchy Arizona defense gave the Cubs a 4-2 win, played at a quick pace of 2:09, and brought their Cactus League record to 6-0.

Jameson Taillon threw a quick first inning and got the first two outs of the second easily as well. The second out of the second was a terrific catch by Pete Crow-Armstrong:

Then Taillon allowed a solo homer to Geraldo Perdomo. In the fourth, Ian Happ made a nice sliding catch off Josh Naylor, and that helped create a very good inning by Julian Merryweather.

Merryweather was hitting 98-99 with ease, and having him as a bullpen piece this year will be very useful — his injury last year really hurt the pen.

Another D-backs run came across off Cody Poteet in the fifth to make it 2-0.

In the bottom of the fifth, Carson Kelly got the first Cubs hit of the game, a solo homer to make it 2-1 [VIDEO].

They don’t measure distances on spring homers, but that one had to be close to 400 feet. I think the Cubs will have a very good catching hitting tandem with Kelly and Miguel Amaya.

One out later, Vidal Bruján homered to tie the game [VIDEO].

You know, Bruján was once a Top 100 MLB prospect, but his MLB play hasn’t upheld that status. If he could get back to that level he’d be a real useful backup infielder.

The Cubs took the lead in the sixth. With one out, PCA singled.

Then this happened [VIDEO].

This is the value of PCA to the Cubs — not just his defense, but the way he can create havoc on the basepaths. The play at second might have been fairly close if not for that bad throw, but PCA never stopped running and more bad Arizona defense helped him score the lead run.

Expect to see a lot of this sort of thing this year. PCA seems like a man on a mission.

Porter Hodge had an easy seventh and Eli Morgan struck out a pair in the eighth. Both of those men will be key parts of the 2025 Cubs bullpen.

The Cubs posted an insurance run in the bottom of the eighth. Moises Ballesteros led off with a single and advanced to second on a ground out, then took third on yet another D-backs error, a fly ball lost in the sun off the bat of Ben Cowles.

Reese McGuire singled in Ballesteros to complete the Cubs scoring.

Phil Bickford, a NRI to camp who might wind up on the Iowa Shuttle, threw the ninth. He got the first two outs on ground balls, and then up came former Cub Trey Mancini. Bickford struck him out to end the game.

One thing of note: Cubs fans got a demonstration of how well Kyle Tucker knows the strike zone. Tucker walked all three times he came to the plate in this game. Tucker had a .408 OBP last year, and the more Cubs on base this year, the merrier.

I know Sammy Sosa was in the house at Sloan Park Tuesday; he wasn’t announced to the crowd, but did spend some time talking to the folks on Marquee’s broadcast [VIDEO].

Attendance watch: A smallish crowd of 10,396 paid to see this game on a very warm afternoon. Total attendance for four dates at Sloan Park is 52,098, or 13,025 per date.

Shōta Imanaga will make his season debut for the Cubs Wednesday afternoon at Scottsdale Stadium, as the Cubs take on the Giants. Jordan Hicks will go for San Francisco. Game time is again 2:05 p.m. CT. No TV Wednesday. There will be audio via MLB Audio (Giants announcers).