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Cubs right-hander Kohl Stewart allowed one
unearned run on three hits and a walk with two strikeouts over
five innings to earn his first major league win since 2019.
Stewart was a last-minute call-up from Triple-A Iowa when
scheduled starter Trevor Williams was forced to undergo an
emergency appendectomy.
Fernando Tatis Jr. homered for the Padres in the top of the
sixth off reliever Keegan Thompson to move into a tie for the
major league lead with his 16th. Tatis scored the other Padres
run in the second inning when he reached on an error by Baez and
scored on a Wil Myers single.
Three of the Cubs homers, and five of the runs, came against
Padres starter Chris Paddack (2-4), who gave up five runs on six
hits with a walk and six strikeouts in 4 1/3 innings.
Bryant tripled past a diving center fielder Jurickson Profar
with two outs in the third inning to extend his hitting streak
to 13 games. Baez then launched his first home run of the game
deep into the stands in left center to put the Cubs ahead 2-1.
Wisdom hit a solo shot, with two outs in the fourth to up the
Cubs' lead to 3-1. Bryant followed a pinch-hit double by Sergio
Alcantara in the fifth with a two-run homer, his 12th, to make
it 5-1 and drive Paddack out of the game.
Tatis and Wisdom exchanged solo homers in the sixth. Baez hit
his second homer of the game, and 13th of the season, off Nabil
Crismatt in the seventh. It was the first two-homer game for
Wisdom, who has three on the season.
The victory was the Cubs' seventh in their past eight games, and
they are 12-3 over their past 15 games. The Padres lost
consecutive games for the first time since May 7-8, finishing
19-9 in May; the Cubs were 19-8 in May.
--Field Level Media
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