Patrick Wisdom, Alfonso Rivas power Cubs' rout of Pirates
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 [June 23, 2022]
Patrick Wisdom homered and drove
in four runs and Alfonso Rivas hit a grand slam and knocked in five
on Wednesday as the visiting Chicago Cubs clobbered the Pittsburgh
Pirates 14-5 to snap a three-game losing streak.
Ian Happ added a two-run homer and Rafael Ortega hit a two-run
double among his three hits for the Cubs, who scored seven in the
second inning.
Chicago starter Keegan Thompson (7-2) gave up one run and four hits
in six innings, with seven strikeouts and one walk.
Diego Castillo hit a solo homer -- and, with the lopsided situation,
pitched the ninth inning -- and Bligh Madris hit a three-run double
for the Pirates, who had won a season-high-tying three in a row.
Jerad Eickhoff (0-1), called up to make a spot start for his Pirates
debut, got rocked for 10 runs and 10 hits in 4 1/3 innings. He
struck out four and walked one.
The Cubs sent 10 batters to the plate in the second. Jonathan Villar
doubled, Nico Hoerner singled and Jason Heyward got hit with a pitch
to load the bases. Eickhoff hit Rivas with a pitch to force in a
run, and Ortega drove in two with a double to make it 3-0.
An out later, Wisdom drove in two more with a double. Happ followed
with a two-run homer to center, his eighth, to increase the lead to
7-0.
Pittsburgh got on the board in the bottom of the second when
Castillo led off with his fifth homer, to left.
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Chicago Cubs second baseman Jonathan Villar (24) hits a double
against the Pittsburgh Pirates during the second inning at PNC Park.
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In the fourth, Ortega walked and, an out later,
Wisdom homered to center, his 14th and his second in two days, to
push the gap to 9-1.
Villar tripled to open the fifth and scored on Hoerner's sacrifice
fly to make it 10-1.
In the ninth against Castillo, the Cubs loaded the bases with two
outs on two walks and a hit batter. That set up Rivas' grand slam to
right, his third homer, to make it 14-1.
Pittsburgh loaded the bases in the bottom of the ninth against David
Norris on an error, a walk and a hit batter, then got a run on third
baseman P.J. Higgins' second error of the inning before Madris hit a
three-run double.
--Field Level Media
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