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With his team trailing 7-6 and a man on in the sixth inning,
Morel deposited a pitch from Hoby Milner (3-2) inside the
left-field foul pole for his 12th homer of the season.
Michael Rucker (2-1), Mark Leiter Jr. and Brandon Hughes didn't
yield a run over the final three innings as Chicago won its
fourth straight game and 10th in its last 14 contests. Rucker
retired all three batters he faced, Leiter fanned all three he
encountered and Hughes worked around one hit to pick up his
second save.
Patrick Wisdom also clubbed a two-run homer and Nick Madrigal
had three hits for Chicago, which improved to 8-6 versus
Milwaukee this season.
Meanwhile, Andrew McCutchen and Hunter Renfroe each belted
two-run homers and Rowdy Tellez delivered a solo shot for the
Brewers, who are mired in a 6-11 rut.
Milwaukee, though, didn't waste time getting to Chicago starter
Keegan Thompson in the first. Christian Yelich opened the game
with a single and scored on McCutchen's third home run in two
days.
However, the Cubs answered by roughing up Milwaukee's Aaron
Ashby for three runs in the bottom of the frame. An RBI double
from Seiya Suzuki, run-scoring triple from Franmil Reyes and Ian
Happ's infield single brought home another to put Chicago ahead.
The Cubs made it 4-2 after Willson Contreras' sacrifice fly in
the second inning. However, that lead didn't last long with
Tellez clubbing a solo shot and Renfroe hitting the left-field
video board with a man on in the third.
Thompson gave up five runs on those three homers, plus three
other hits, while walking three and striking out three in 3 2/3
innings. Wisdom, though, put Chicago up 6-5 in the fifth inning
following his 22nd homer of the season.
Milwaukee took the lead right back in the sixth on Yelich's RBI
groundout and Willy Adames' run-scoring infield hit. That put
Ashby, who allowed six runs, eight hits and struck out eight
without a walk through five innings, in line for his third
victory before Morel went deep.
--Field Level Media
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