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Those seven homers tied a club record for the
Cubs, who posted 21 hits en route to their highest-scoring game
this season. Chicago has now won 11 of its last 14 games.
Swanson has homered three times in this four-game series, while
Candelario began his second stint with Chicago in style after
being acquired from Washington on Monday.
Cubs starter Justin Steele (12-3) won his third straight outing,
but he yielded five runs (four earned) and nine hits in six
innings.
Tyler Stephenson had a two-run homer and Matt McLain added three
hits and two RBIs for the National League Central-leading Reds,
who are 4-1 at Wrigley Field in 2023. Cincinnati's Ben Lively
(4-7) allowed 13 runs and 13 hits, including four homers, over
four innings.
Tauchman led off the first with a single and went to third on a
base hit by Hoerner, whose steal of second resulted in an errant
throw by catcher Stephenson to bring in the game's first run.
Hoerner scored on Bellinger's single, and Swanson went deep,
with two men on, for a 5-0 Chicago lead.
Cincinnati, however, scored twice in the second. Spencer Steer
doubled and scored following two wild pitches from Steele.
Stephenson later singled, went to second on another Steele wild
pitch and scored thanks to Candelario's fielding error on TJ
Friedl's grounder to first base.
Chicago got both runs back in the bottom of the second on
Bellinger's shot off the right field video board. The Cubs added
on in the third, as Tauchman, with two men on, found the center
field bleachers for a 10-2 Cubs lead.
In the fourth, following Bellinger's single, Swanson went deep
into the left-center-field basket. Chicago made it 13-2 via
doubles from Candelario and Nick Madrigal before striking for
its final seven runs between the seventh and eighth.
--Field Level Media
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