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Chicago's Ian Happ scored the tie-breaking run
from third on a seventh-inning, double-play grounder.
Cubs starter Jake Arrieta held the Padres to one run on four
hits, and relievers Rex Brothers, Ryan Tepera and Craig Kimbrel
combined to retire all 12 Padres they faced.
Brothers (2-0) struck out two in the sixth to earn the win.
Tepera had three strikeouts in two perfect innings. And Kimbrel
picked up his 15th save on three outfield flies in the ninth.
Arrieta and the three relievers combined to retire the last 15
Padres they faced and 20 of the last 21.
The Cubs finished the season series with five wins in six games
against the Padres.
Padres starter -- and former Cub -- Yu Darvish (6-2) took the
loss, giving up two runs on three hits and two walks, with eight
strikeouts over seven innings. Wednesday marked only the second
time in 13 games that the Padres lost when Darvish started.
San Diego took a 1-0 lead in the third when Tommy Pham singled
off Arrieta with one out, stole second and scored on Manny
Machado's single.
Darvish had retired the first nine hitters he faced when
Pederson opened the fourth inning with his seventh homer -- a
drive to center.
The score was still tied 1-1 and Darvish had faced only one
hitter over the minimum when he walked Happ to open the seventh.
Patrick Wisdom followed with a bloop single down the line in
right to put Cubs at the corners with no one out. Happ scored
when Anthony Rizzo hit a grounder to Jake Cronenworth that the
second baseman turned into a double play.
Alcantara gave the Cubs an insurance run in the eighth with his
first homer of the season -- a one-out drive into the right
field seats off Emilio Pagan.
--Field Level Media
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