CHICAGO \u2014 Pinch-hitter Carson Kelly connected for a tiebreaking three-run homer in the sixth inning, and the Chicago Cubs handed the New York Mets their 10th consecutive loss with a 4-2 victory on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Ian Happ also homered for Chicago in its fourth consecutive win. Jameson Taillon (1-1) pitched six crisp innings.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the longest losing streak for New York since it dropped 11 in a row from Aug. 28 to Sept. 8 in 2004. It has been outscored 60-18 during the slide.<\/p>\n
The game was tied at 1 when Mets right-hander Freddy Peralta (1-2) issued two consecutive walks with two down in the sixth. Peralta then was replaced by left-hander Brooks Raley, and Kelly was sent up to hit for Mois\u00e9s Ballesteros, a rookie who bats from the left side.<\/p>\n
Kelly drove Raley\u2019s first pitch into the bleachers in left-center for his second homer of the season, sending a charge through the crowd of 36,189. It was Kelly\u2019s second career pinch-hit drive.<\/p>\n
It also was the first homer allowed by Raley since Aug. 13, 2023, stopping a streak of 53 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
Mark Vientos homered for New York. Francisco Lindor and Luis Robert Jr. each had two hits.<\/p>\n
The Mets scored an unearned run on second baseman Nico Hoerner\u2019s throwing error in the eighth, but Ben Brown escaped the jam when Vientos grounded out.<\/p>\n
Caleb Thielbar handled the ninth for his first save of the season. Daniel Palencia, Chicago\u2019s usual closer, was placed on the 15-day injured list on Friday with a left oblique strain.<\/p>\n
New York jumped in front on Vientos\u2019 434-foot drive to left-center in the second. He went 1 for 25 with eight strikeouts and no walks in his previous eight games.<\/p>\n
Happ responded with a leadoff shot in the bottom half, a 431-foot drive to center. Happ also went deep during Chicago\u2019s 12-4 victory in the series opener.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Left-hander David Peterson (0-3, 6.41 ERA) starts the series finale for New York, and right-hander Javier Assad (1-1, 8.10 ERA) pitches for Chicago on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 Pinch-hitter Carson Kelly connected for a tiebreaking three-run homer in the sixth inning, and the Chicago…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,138,24,4245,161,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-678675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-cubs","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-cubs","11":"tag-chicagocubs","12":"tag-cubs","13":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116428021819736866","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678675","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=678675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}