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With two hits Friday, Witt is batting .420
(34-of-81) with eight homers and 27 RBIs in his last 19 games
for the Royals, who snapped a three-game skid with just their
ninth win in the last 39 road contests.
Kansas City's Cole Ragans (4-4) allowed all the Cubs' runs in
the fourth. He yielded eight hits with two walks and struck out
nine over six innings.
On his way to earning his second save, Carlos Hernandez allowed
a walk and hit in the ninth, but Nico Hoerner (three hits) was
thrown out by right fielder Drew Waters trying for a double with
one out.
Only two of the four runs Taillon allowed over six innings were
earned. He gave up six hits and struck out three without a walk.
Hoerner and Jeimer Candelario each had an RBI single for
Chicago, which stranded 10 men and fanned 13 times while losing
for the fifth time in nine games amid its chase for a postseason
berth.
After the Cubs left three runners on without scoring over the
first two innings, Kansas City broke through in the third.
Waters singled, stole second and scored on ninth-place hitter
Kyle Isbel's lined base hit.
The Royals made it 2-0 in the fourth when Witt reached second on
a single and third baseman Candelario's throwing error. Witt
eventually scored via Salvador Perez's sacrifice fly.
Chicago, though, broke out to take the lead in the fourth. After
Yan Gomes doubled and Seiya Suzuki singled, Candelario ripped an
RBI single.
Wisdom followed with a single, and Suzuki eventually came home
on Christopher Morel's fielder's choice and a throwing error by
Duffy, who replaced the injured Maikel Garcia (upper-body
discomfort) at third base. Hoerner singled home Wisdom to put
the Cubs ahead.
--Field Level Media
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