Cubs score 3 runs in 8th, top Giants 5-2 originally appeared in NBC Sports Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) — Cody Bellinger, Ian Happ and Christopher Morel each had RBI singles in Chicago’s three-run eighth inning and the Cubs beat the San Francisco Giants 5-2 on Tuesday night to end a two-game slide. games.
Michael Busch led off the eighth against reliever Tyler Rogers (0-2) with a double to the right center wall, his second hit of the game. Bellinger followed up by hitting his second hit badly to the left side of the infield to break the 2-all tie.
After Seiya Suzuki singled, Happ hit his second hit of the night down the right field line to make it 4-2. Morel pinch hit and added a ground ball RBI single to cap the rally.
Dansby Swanson hit a two-run home run for the Cubs, who won for just the fourth time in 12 games.
Tyson Miller (2-0) got four strikeouts in relief of Justin Steele in the win. Keegan Thompson struck out the side in the ninth for his first save.
Curt Casali had two hits and two RBIs for the Giants, who announced the death of Hall of Famer Willie Mays during the game. The legendary outfielder played 22 seasons with the team, first in New York and then when the franchise moved to San Francisco.
The Wrigley Field crowd of 36,292 saluted Mays when the 93-year-old’s death was announced on the left field video board in the sixth inning
Giants starter Logan Webb allowed two runs and six hits in seven innings. The right-hander struck out five and walked one while throwing 101 pitches before being replaced by Rogers.
Steele was sharp in his 10th start of the season, allowing two runs and four hits in 6 2/3 innings. The lefty struck out eight and walked two in the fourth consecutive game, but left with the score tied at 2 and after 96 pitches on a hot night and was unable to get his first win.
Swanson put Chicago ahead 2-0 in the second with an opposite-field home run that hit the right-center field bleachers. it was the seventh of the season.
Steele cruised through four innings, retiring 12 of 14 batters and allowing just two singles.
The Giants tied it 2-2 in the fifth when Steele got past Jorge Soler and Mike Yastrzemski, then Casali hit both runners with a double to the left-center gap.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Giants: LHP Blake Snell, on the 15-day IL since June 3 (left groin strain), threw a bullpen session in San Francisco on Tuesday. “We’ll see how he goes tomorrow and make a decision after that,” coach Bob Melvin said. Snell, a two-time Cy Young Award winner, is 0-3 with a 9.51 ERA in six starts with San Francisco since signing a two-year, $62 million contract in March.
Cubs: OF Mike Tauchman was placed on the 10-day injured list with a left groin strain before Tuesday’s game and INF Miles Mastrobuoni was called up from Triple-A Iowa to take Tauchman’s roster spot. Tauchman left the Cubs’ 7-6 loss to the Giants on Monday after giving up a single in the third inning. On Tuesday, coach Craig Counsell said Tauchman would “probably need four weeks to heal.”
NEXT
RHP Kyle Hendricks (0-4, 8:20) will start for the Cubs in the series finale on Wednesday afternoon. The Giants did not name a starter.
