Miguel Amaya delivered a two-run, tiebreaking single within the eighth inning, and the visiting Chicago Cubs accomplished a four-game season sequence sweep of the crosstown rival White Sox with their fourth consecutive victory, 3-1 on Saturday night time.
After White Sox reliever Chad Kuhl (0-2) allowed an inning-opening stroll to Nico Hoerner and infield single to Dansby Swanson, each runners moved up on Pete Crow-Armstrong’s sacrifice bunt. Then No. 9 hitter Amaya, who doubled earlier within the contest, dropped a success into left to interrupt a 1-1 tie and provides the Cubs a two-run edge.
Starter Justin Steele grinded his means by means of six innings, permitting six hits and two walks, however solely an unearned run whereas hanging out eight for the Cubs, who swept the annual season set from White Sox for the primary time since 2013. Relievers Porter Hodge (1-1), Jorge Lopez and Hector Naris (seventeenth save) mixed to permit one hit and fan 5 because the Cubs moved inside a sport of .500 with their eighth win of their final 10.
White Sox starter Chris Flexen lasted simply 4 innings, giving up 4 walks and three hits, however no runs. The Cubs stranded six runners within the first three innings in opposition to the right-hander, who totaled 78 pitches. Korey Lee had two hits for the White Sox, who struck out 13 occasions, are 0-3 since ending an AL-record-tying 21-game dropping streak and have misplaced 12 straight at house.
The White Sox struck first within the second. Migel Vargas reached on a uncommon error by Hoerner and finally scored when Brooks Baldwin’s single eluded diving left fielder Ian Happ.
With Flexen out and Jared Shuster on the mound for the White Sox within the fifth, the Cubs lastly broke by means of. Cody Bellinger despatched a two-out single into middle discipline. He then scored from first base on Isaac Paredes’ double when cutoff man Baldwin appeared to lose monitor of Bellinger rounding third.
Swanson recorded his 1,000th profession hit within the sixth. It got here the identical day that his spouse Mallory scored the lone purpose within the U.S. ladies’s soccer workforce’s Olympic gold-medal match victory over Brazil in Paris.
–Area Stage Media
