Blasts by Patrick Wisdom, Frank Schwindel lift Cubs over Diamondbacks

[May 23, 2022] 

Patrick Wisdom and Frank Schwindel hit back-to-back homers to open the eighth inning, and rally the Chicago Cubs to a 5-4 victory over the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks on Sunday.

With the Cubs trailing 4-3 and facing Arizona's Ian Kennedy (3-3), who allowed one home run in 18 1/3 innings this season entering this contest, Wisdom (two hits) tied the contest with a drive into the left-center field bleachers for his third homer in three days. Schwindel then put Chicago -- which blew an early 3-0 lead -- ahead with a shot into the left-field stands.

It was the second consecutive day Schwindel and Wisdom hit back-to-back homers, and helped the Cubs snap a four-game losing streak.
 

Keegan Thompson (4-0) pitched the final three innings for Chicago, which won for just its seventh time in 22 home games.

A day after using a three-run eighth inning to tie a game it trailed 4-0 and went on to win 7-6 in 10, Arizona erased a 3-0 hole with three RBI singles in the sixth. Geraldo Perdomo then led off the seventh inning with a single to left field and eventually scored the tiebreaking run on David Peralta's groundout.

Chicago Cubs starting pitcher Wade Miley (20 delivers against the Arizona Diamondbacks during the third inning at Wrigley Field. Mandatory Credit: Matt Marton-USA TODAY Sports

Arizona's Merrill Kelly yielded only a bases-loaded triple to P.J. Higgins in the second, and lasted five innings for the Diamondbacks, who couldn't hold on for their first four-game sweep at Chicago.

Chicago starter Wade Miley didn't allow a run at home in his first 12 innings as a Cub until Ketel Marte's RBI single with two outs in the sixth. Marte then scored on Pavin Smith's single to center and Jake McCarthy tied the game at 3-3 with a run-scoring single of his own. That proved to be the last inning of work for Miley.

Called up from Triple-A Iowa with Willson Contreras day-to-day because of a hamstring issue, Higgins cleared the bases with his knock into the right-field corner to give the Cubs an early cushion. It was just the second hit in 10 major league games for Higgins, whose previous big-league action until Sunday came in June 2021.

--Field Level Media

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