CHICAGO — It goes without saying the Giants’ Spanish broadcast crew is an integral piece of the team’s promotional arm.

Anyone around the globe interested in hearing about the Giants and their Latino players can tune in to Erwin Higueros, Tito Fuentes, and Carlos Orellana, who provide play by play and color commentary of every game including Sunday night’s 2-1, 10-inning win over the Cubs that ended the Giants’ three-city trip at 5-5.

Matt Chapman, who drove in eight runs in Friday’s 18-3 funfest, was heroic again when singling home Sunday’s deciding run in the 10th. Keaton Winn, a night after blowing a save opportunity by yielding a homer to Pete Crow-Armstrong, got him this time to end the ninth. Dylan Smith pitched the 10th for his first career save.

Higueros described it all in Spanish.

As Major League Baseball continues to emphasize international growth, Spanish broadcasters play an important role in getting the word out. The Giants are eyeing overseas markets as well — in April, they began a partnership with the AI company ElevenLabs to help push their content to more Spanish speakers and fans in South Korea, where the Giants are making a strong push because of the presence of right fielder Jung Hoo Lee.

The Giants are one of just four teams with Spanish broadcasters who cover the full 162-game schedule, including traveling to all 81 on the road — and sometimes they get a rude reminder of where they rank in MLB’s broadcast pecking order.

Higueros and Orellana were on the trip (Fuentes, 82, does home games) and called Friday’s series opener from one of the main Wrigley Field press box booths, adjacent to the Giants’ English-speaking radio group of Joe Ritzo and F.P. Santangelo.

But ESPN radio dropped into town to broadcast Saturday’s and Sunday’s games, so the Cubs bumped the Giants’ Spanish broadcasters to an area way up in the press box rafters where much of the field including first base and second base isn’t visible.

ESPN does not cover the Giants regularly, but if you’re a network that pays hundreds of millions of dollars annually to MLB, you have priority in press boxes. It’s that simple.

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Now, could the Giants’ English radio broadcasters have moved to the rafters instead? Or rotated with the Spanish crew, a day apiece? Sure, but that’s not how it works. The Cubs have only so much room to operate, and Higueros and Orellana were the odd men out. Unfair, but not atypical.

The Cubs could have taken steps to resolve this. They knew in advance ESPN was coming for the weekend – as well as NBC/Peacock for the Sunday national broadcast – and could have adjusted. Heck, even Giants executives and a couple of their owners sat in the press box rafters for Saturday’s game, which is uncommon; teams usually go all out catering to visiting higher-ups.

Yes, the general public would consider these champagne problems, but the fact is, this is the big leagues, where hospitality is first class and host teams are supposed to be fully accommodating.

The Cubs reportedly spent roughly $750 million for four phases of extensive reconstruction at Wrigley, and it’s stunning, but virtually left the archaic press box alone.

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Except for the Sacramento A’s (and that’s a John Fisher problem, as we all know), all other teams place the Giants’ Spanish broadcast members in booths equivalent to their English counterparts, even Fenway Park, which is two years older than Wrigley.

Neither Higueros, the longest tenured Spanish broadcaster (39 years) besides the Padres’ Eduardo Ortega, nor Orellana would complain, and they did the best they could under the circumstances. They know the drill, but it would be nice if the drill involved equal footing.

A Giants visit to Wrigley doesn’t generally come and go without some peculiar activity, mostly involving rain or lack thereof. Here are some examples:

• In 1998, Cubs president Andy MacPhail made a decision that ticked off the Giants’ entire traveling party. When an early May game was rained out, MacPhail chose not to schedule a doubleheader for the remaining weekend days but a doubleheader for when the Giants were to visit the following August.

That would have given the Cubs an extreme competitive advantage because the Giants would be flying to Chicago after a night game in Atlanta and playing ball 10 hours later in a doubleheader opener. A logistical nightmare and raw deal. Basically, three games within 24 hours.

The Giants were livid, and executives Ned Colletti and Pat Gallagher complained to league executive VP Katy Feeney, who sided with the Giants. A doubleheader was played that weekend.

“Now the Giants are happy, and I’m glad they’re happy,” said a sarcastic MacPhail.

• In 1999, Giants owner Peter Magowan called the Cubs a “bush league operation.”

That’s because the Cubs announced a rainout without a drop of rain, prematurely banging a game. The Giants accused the Cubs of making the decision just to give injured pitcher Kevin Tapani two extra days’ rest.

Cubs GM Ed Lynch said a possible storm, not Tapani’s back soreness, is why he called off the game, though Cubs first baseman Mark Grace admitted it indeed was about protecting Tapani.

• In 2014, the Giants were peeved with the Wrigley grounds crew, which seemed amateurish trying to put the tarp on the field when rain hit in the fifth inning with the Cubs leading 2-0.

Workers were so slow that fans, trying to lend a hand, chanted “pull, pull, pull,” but it was too late. The infield was absolutely drenched so that when the rain stopped, the field was unplayable.

Finally, after a 4-hour and 34-minute delay, umpire Hunter Wendelstedt called the game and awarded the Cubs the win, at 1:16 a.m.

The Giants protested and won. MLB ruled the Cubs were negligent while messing up the tarp process. The game was finished a couple of days later, and the Cubs won 2-1.