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The offense was more than enough support for starter Marcus
Stroman (2-4), who earned his second win in seven starts by
holding the Reds to two runs and four hits over five innings.
Stroman struck out eight and walked two for the Cubs, who won
their third straight after a four-game losing streak. Despite
giving up two runs on four hits, Robert Gsellman earned his
first save of the season and 15th career, tossing the final
three innings of the game.
The Cubs have gone deep in 10 of 11 games since May 14, totaling
19 homers over that span.
Tyler Naquin homered and had three hits for the Reds, who lost
for the fourth time in five games.
Schwindel, who had just two home runs in his first 36 games, has
four long balls in his last four games. His two-run shot to
right-center off Reds starter Tyler Mahle (2-5) gave the Cubs a
3-0 lead in the first inning.
The Reds came back against Stroman with a pair of runs in the
bottom of the first on back-to-back RBI singles from Joey Votto
and Tyler Stephenson.
But Chicago re-established its three-run advantage in the third
against Mahle when Alfonso Rivas tripled home Schwindel and
Patrick Wisdom.
The Cubs knocked Mahle from the game in the fifth when the first
five batters reached -- the first three against Mahle -- and
scored. Schwindel opened with his second homer of the night
before a two-run single from Andrelton Simmons and RBI
groundouts from Christopher Morel and Seiya Suzuki closed out
the scoring in the five-run frame.
Mahle was tagged for a career-high eight earned runs on nine
hits in four-plus innings, striking out six and walking three.
It was the second time this season Mahle set a new personal high
for earned runs allowed in a start.
Cubs pitching retired 13 straight batters before Naquin belted
his fifth homer of the season off Gsellman to open the eighth.
It was Cincinnati's first hit since Stephenson's run-scoring
single in the first.
For the second time this month, the Reds used infielder Matt
Reynolds to finish the game on the mound. Reynolds allowed a
bases-loaded sacrifice fly to account for Chicago's final run.
--Field Level Media
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