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 Michael McKenry homered, Corey Dickerson went 4-for-4 with three
RBIs and Nolan Arenado drove in two runs and scored a pair for the
Rockies, who snapped a five-game slide and won for the second time
in the last 10 contests. Jordan Lyles (6-1) made his first start in
over two months after being activated from the disabled list and
allowed four runs on six hits in six innings.
Jake Arrieta (6-3) surrendered a career-high 13 hits and matched a
career-worst with nine runs allowed in five innings. Chris Coghlan
finished a home run shy of the cycle and Arismendy Alcantara hit a
two-run homer for the Cubs, who held a pair of leads before the game
got out of hand.
Coghlan’s RBI double gave Chicago a 4-3 advantage in the fifth but
Arrieta failed to record an out in the sixth as Arenado doubled in
the tying run before coming in on Gonzalez’s blast into the Colorado
bullpen right. Brandon Barnes’ RBI single capped a string of seven
straight hits to begin the inning and finally ended Arrieta’s night
before Josh Rutledge’s double-play groundout forced in a run to cap
the six-run rally.
Dickerson singled in a pair and came in on McKenry’s homer in the
seventh to cap the rout. Alcantara’s third home run gave the Cubs a
3-0 lead in the fourth but Arenado delivered an RBI groundout,
Dickerson tripled in a run and McKenry added an RBI single in the
fourth to tie it up.
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GAME NOTEBOOK: Arrieta’s nine earned runs were one fewer than he had
allowed in any previous month this season and boosted his ERA from 2.11
to 2.80. … The Cubs reportedly claimed former Miami Marlins RHP Jacob
Turner off waivers. … The Rockies placed LHP Brett Anderson (lower back
strain) on the 15-day DL and recalled RHP Brooks Brown from Triple-A
Colorado Springs while designating OF Jason Pridie for assignment.
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