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Yan Gomes drove in three runs, while Mike
Tauchman had a homer, two singles and two RBIs for the Cubs.
Christopher Morel went 3-for-4 with three runs and two RBIs, and
Cody Bellinger finished 3-for-5.
Andrew Knizner hit two homers and drove in three runs for the
Cardinals, who have lost five of their past seven games.
Cardinals starting pitcher Miles Mikolas (6-6) and starting
catcher Willson Contreras didn't survive the first inning.
With two outs, Cubs outfielder Ian Happ hit Contreras in the
head with an errant backswing. After Contreras exited with a
scalp laceration, Mikolas threw one pitch up and in to Happ,
then hit him on the hip with his next pitch.
The umpires convened and ejected Mikolas, then banished
Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol for persisting in his protest.
The game unraveled for the Cardinals when Dakota Hudson replaced
Mikolas.
Bellinger's single was followed by walks to Seiya Suzuki and
Dansby Swanson, with the latter forcing in a run. Morel's
ground-rule double put the Cubs up 3-0.
The Cubs pushed their lead to 5-0 in the third inning. After
Swanson and Morel reached on two-out singles, Gomes and Miles
Mastrobuoni followed with RBI singles.
Chicago made it 6-0 in the fourth inning. Nico Hoerner hit a
double, took third on Bellinger's single and scored on Suzuki's
forceout grounder.
Knizner led off the bottom of the fourth with a homer to put the
Cardinals on the board.
Tauchman hit a home run to make it 7-1 in the sixth inning. The
Cubs extended their lead to 9-1 in the seventh on Gomes' two-run
double.
Knizner socked a two-run homer in the eighth inning to cut the
deficit to 9-3. Tauchman made it 10-3 in the ninth with a
run-scoring infield single.
--Field Level Media
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