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India had three hits for Cincinnati (55-80), which took two of
three at Chicago to win a second straight series. After
Chicago's Seiya Suzuki hit a tiebreaking solo homer off Alexis
Diaz (6-2) in the eighth, Nick Senzel drew a walk off Mark
Leiter Jr. (2-7) to open the ninth and scored when Lopez rolled
the ball into the right-field gap.
India followed with a single to left that put Cincinnati ahead
for the first time. Ian Gibaut recorded his first career save as
the Reds won back-to-back games for the first time since Aug.
26-27.
Suzuki and Nico Hoerner each had a pair of hits for the Cubs
(57-80), who have lost 13 of 18. Chicago starter Adrian Sampson
was solid while yielding five hits and one run, on a homer to
Kyle Farmer that ended his day with nobody out in the seventh.
Meanwhile, Cincinnati starter Luis Cessa did not allow a hit
until the bottom of the fifth, when Hoerner led off with a drive
that Friedl had in his glove but couldn't hold on to. It was
ruled a triple and P.J. Higgins followed with a sacrifice fly
for a 1-0 Chicago lead.
With two outs in the sixth, Suzuki lined a drive to right-center
field that Friedl appeared to be waiting on, but ended up
misplaying due to the sun. Suzuki, credited with a double, then
scored on Franmil Reyes' single to right.
Friedl also lost Hoerner's short fly ball in the sun in the
seventh, which ended up as a double. However, the Cubs were not
able to take advantage of that situation and stranded runners at
second and third.
That proved to be costly for Chicago as Cincinnati leveled the
contest at 2-2 in the top of the eighth when Rowan Wick issued a
bases-loaded walk to rookie Spencer Steer.
--Field Level Media
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