CINCINNATI \u2014 \u00a0Seiya Suzuki and Reese McGuire homered in the eighth inning and the Chicago Cubs rallied for an 11-8 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Nico Hoerner and Pete Crow-Armstrong drove in two runs apiece as the NL Central Division leaders took their fourth straight three-game series.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Austin Hays had two hits and drove in three runs for Cincinnati
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The Cubs trailed 8-4, but began their rally by putting up three in the sixth inning<\/p>\n
Chicago scored 21 of its 28 runs in the series in the seventh through ninth innings<\/p>\n
Austin Hays had two hits and drove in three runs for Cincinnati, which has dropped four of five.<\/p>\n
McGuire \u2014 called up from Triple-A Iowa \u2014 tied it at 8 with a solo shot to right and the first two-homer game in his eight-year, big-league career. The 30-year old catcher was a late addition to the lineup after Carson Kelly was scratched due to illness.<\/p>\n
After Ian Happ drew a walk and Kyle Tucker’s base hit, Suzuki connected on an elevated sinker by Luis Mey and drove it over the left-field wall to put the Cubs on top for good.<\/p>\n
It was the second three-run homer in the series for Suzuki, who went 7 for 12 in the weekend three-game set.<\/p>\n
Drew Pomeranz (2-0), the fourth of six Chicago pitchers, got the win with a scoreless inning.<\/p>\n
Key moment<\/p>\n
The Cubs trailed 8-4, but began their rally by putting up three in the sixth inning. Hoerner drove in two with a double and came home on a base hit by Michael Busch.<\/p>\n
Key stat<\/p>\n
Chicago scored 21 of its 28 runs in the series in the seventh through ninth innings.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Cubs: Return home on Monday to open a three-game series against the Colorado Rockies.<\/p>\n
Reds: RHP Nick Martinez (2-5, 3.43 ERA) takes the mound for the opener of a three-game set at Kansas City on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI \u2014 \u00a0Seiya Suzuki and Reese McGuire homered in the eighth inning and the Chicago Cubs rallied for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[556,560,1769,5,138,24,4245,535,161,4,169,1944,6217,6266,562,185,558,1519],"class_list":{"0":"post-55707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-cubs","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-chicago","13":"tag-chicago-cubs","14":"tag-chicagocubs","15":"tag-cincinnati","16":"tag-cubs","17":"tag-mlb","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-ohio","20":"tag-ohio-cincinnati-reds","21":"tag-ohio-cincinnati-top-stories","22":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-wisconsin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114573512760511273","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}