{"id":711527,"date":"2026-05-29T02:33:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T02:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/711527\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T02:33:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T02:33:15","slug":"ian-happ-homers-again-as-the-cubs-sink-paul-skenes-and-the-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/711527\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Happ homers again as the Cubs sink Paul Skenes and the Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Happ homered for the second consecutive game and the Chicago Cubs handed Paul Skenes his third straight loss with a 7-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The win came one night after the Cubs ended a 10-game losing streak. Happ hit a tiebreaking three-run homer in the seventh inning of that game.<\/p>\n<p>Happ had three hits on Thursday, including a two-run homer in the eighth that pushed the Cubs&#8217; lead to 5-2. He has reached base safely in 41 games in the city where he grew up. Seiya Suzuki had two hits and two RBIs for Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Skenes (6-5) lost his third straight start despite striking out 10 in 5 1\/3 innings. The 2025 NL Cy Young Award winner fanned six batters in a row from the first to the third.<\/p>\n<p>Only one of the three runs against Skenes was earned, as third baseman Tyler Callihan and shortstop Jared Triolo made throwing errors in a two-run sixth inning that extended the Cubs&#8217; lead to 3-0.<\/p>\n<p>Colin Rea (5-3) won for the first time in five starts, allowing two runs in 5 1\/3 innings. Hoby Milner, Caleb Thielbar and Trent Thornton combined for 3 2\/3 innings of scoreless relief.<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Reynolds homered for the Pirates.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh third baseman Nick Gonzales exited after the third inning with left knee discomfort.<\/p>\n<p>Cubs: Open a three-game series Friday night at St. Louis with LHP Shota Imanaga (4-5, 4.04 ERA) facing RHP Andre Pallante (5-4, 3.76).<\/p>\n<p>Pirates: Host the Minnesota Twins and former Pittsburgh manager Derek Shelton in a three-game series beginning Friday. Pirates RHP Jared Jones will make his first major league appearance since 2024, a little more than a year after undergoing elbow surgery. RHP Taj Bradley (5-1, 2.77) starts for the Twins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ian Happ homered for the second consecutive game and the Chicago Cubs handed Paul Skenes his third straight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,138,24,4245,161,19,4,776,64,1545,185],"class_list":["post-711527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-cubs","tag-baseball","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicagocubs","tag-cubs","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-pnc-park","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116655528579537045","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711527","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=711527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}