Ian Happ went 3-for-4 with a house run and Seiya Suzuki added two doubles and three RBIs to assist the visiting Chicago Cubs save the ultimate sport of the sequence with a 13-4 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Wednesday.
Happ, who attended the College of Cincinnati, has 18 residence runs and 49 RBIs in 56 profession video games at Nice American Ball Park, his highest complete ever in a visiting park.
Cody Bellinger added three hits, two runs and two RBIs for the Cubs, who had 9 doubles and a season-record 17 hits, three greater than their earlier file.
Kyle Hendricks (3-9) received for simply the second time in seven begins, permitting three runs on 4 hits in 5 innings. He walked two and struck out three. Chicago defeated Cincinnati for simply the third time in 10 tries this season.
Santiago Espinal had two hits to increase his hit streak to 11 video games.
After being downed so as within the first inning, the Cubs defeated Cincinnati starter Nick Lodolo (8-4) with eight hits and 6 runs over the subsequent two innings.
Within the second, Bellinger singled, took second on a groundout and scored on Nico Hoerner’s double. With two outs, Christian Bethancourt singled residence to double the lead.
Chicago’s first 5 batters reached the sphere within the third inning, with 4 of them scoring to present them a 6-0 lead.
Lodolo had a 0-2 lead on the primary 4 batters, however gave up a single, hit a batter, then gave up a two-run double to Suzuki and a single to Bellinger. Patrick Knowledge drove in two extra runs for a 6-0 lead.
Lodolo had 11 hits and eight runs. Since beginning the season 8-2, Lodolo has gone 0-2 with a 6.54 ERA in his final six begins.
Hendricks retired the primary 10 batters she confronted earlier than Elly De La Cruz hit a 1-0 pitch to the left-center discipline leadoff within the fourth inning, simply out of attain of left fielder Happ.
After Jake Fraley reduce Chicago’s lead in half with a three-run residence run off Hendricks within the fifth, the Cubs scored three with two outs within the sixth to place the sport out of attain. Two of them got here on Happ’s seventeenth residence run of the season. The blast was estimated to have traveled 425 ft because it hit the middle discipline berm and gave the Cubs an 8-3 lead.
Proper-handed pitcher Jakob Junis made his debut for Cincinnati and allowed back-to-back doubles to Isaac Paredes and Suzuki for a 9-3 lead.
–Discipline Degree Media