CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Jameson Taillon pitched four-hit ball into the seventh inning, Kyle Tucker drove in two runs and the Chicago Cubs beat the Colorado Rockies 3-1 on Monday.<\/p>\n
NL Central-leading Chicago improved to 8-2 in its last 10 games. Colorado lost for the eighth time in nine games, dropping to a major league-worst 9-45.<\/p>\n
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Taillon (4-3) retired his first 14 batters before Mickey Moniak connected in the fifth, driving a changeup deep to right-center for his fifth homer. Moniak also hit a solo drive during Sunday’s 5-4 loss to the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n
Taillon departed after he struck out Brenton Doyle looking for the first out of the seventh. The big right-hander struck out seven and walked none.<\/p>\n
Daniel Palencia, the fourth Cubs reliever, pitched a perfect ninth for his third save.<\/p>\n
Colorado\u2019s Carson Palmquist (0-3) permitted two runs and three hits in five innings in his third major league start.<\/p>\n
The Cubs jumped ahead when Ian Happ scored on Dansby Swanson\u2019s groundout in the first inning.<\/p>\n
After Moniak\u2019s homer tied it in the fifth, Tucker singled in Matt Shaw in the bottom half of the inning. Tucker added a sacrifice fly in the seventh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Jameson Taillon pitched four-hit ball into the seventh inning, Kyle Tucker drove in two runs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2405],"tags":[5,1004,24,167,52,4316,888,733,36,5173,29,716,3568,4,62,168],"class_list":{"0":"post-56883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-rockies","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-brenton-doyle","10":"tag-chicago-cubs","11":"tag-colorado","12":"tag-colorado-rockies","13":"tag-coloradorockies","14":"tag-daniel-palencia","15":"tag-dansby-swanson","16":"tag-ian-happ","17":"tag-jameson-taillon","18":"tag-kyle-tucker","19":"tag-matt-shaw","20":"tag-mickey-moniak","21":"tag-mlb","22":"tag-new-york-yankees","23":"tag-rockies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114576186905035079","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56883","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=56883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}