DENVER (AP) \u2014 Sterlin Thompson hit a pinch single off Daniel Palencia\u2019s 100-mph fastball in the ninth inning to give the Colorado Rockies a 3-2 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
It was the seventh career RBI for Thompson, the 24-year-old rookie from nearby Longmont.<\/p>\n
Thompson\u2019s single to right field with runners on first and third and no outs came after Ian Happ hit a 424-foot solo home run off Antonio Senzatela in the top of the ninth to tie it. It was Happ\u2019s team-leading 15th homer of the season.<\/p>\n
TJ Rumfield hit his eighth homer of the season for Colorado, a two-run shot to right field for a 2-1 lead in the eighth. Rumfield had just one home run in his previous 22 games.<\/p>\n
After blowing the save opportunity, Senzatela (6-0) picked up the win. Palencia (1-1) took the loss.<\/p>\n
Chicago\u2019s Pete Crow-Armstrong tripled in the fourth inning and scored. The hit extended Crow-Armstrong\u2019s on-base streak to 14 games, a stretch during which he is batting .356.<\/p>\n
The Cubs have lost 22 of their past 29 games after starting the season 27-12.<\/p>\n
Starter Michael Lorenzen had his best outing of the season for Colorado, giving up just two hits, one earned run and a season-high seven strikeouts in five innings. In his previous four starts, the veteran right-hander had allowed 22 earned runs across 15 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
Shota Imanaga threw five scoreless innings for the Cubs, allowing only two hits and striking out seven.<\/p>\n
Cubs RHP Edward Cabrera (3-3, 4.99 ERA) was set to face RHP Ryan Feltner (2-1, 4.22) on Thursday in the series finale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER (AP) \u2014 Sterlin Thompson hit a pinch single off Daniel Palencia\u2019s 100-mph fastball in the ninth inning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[3569,5,138,24,4245,161,888,36,7077,4,9500,9501,35,9496,9497,83038,15187,15188,90343,1945,770],"class_list":["post-723067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-cubs","tag-antonio-senzatela","tag-baseball","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicagocubs","tag-cubs","tag-daniel-palencia","tag-ian-happ","tag-longmont","tag-mlb","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-pete-crow-armstrong","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40777-ap-colorado-sports-only","tag-product-40784-ap-illinois-sports-only","tag-product-40785-ap-indiana-sports-only","tag-rockies-cubs-score","tag-ryan-feltner","tag-shota-imanaga"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116730672213151440","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723067","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=723067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}