Happ, however, appeared to injure his leg and
left after the seventh inning.
Meanwhile, Taillon (2-4), who entered 0-2 with an 8.27 ERA in
four home starts, yielded a pair of solo homers to Jack Suwinski,
plus one other run and six total hits during his longest outing
of the season. The Cubs also got an eighth-inning, three-run
homer from Christopher Morel as they won for the third time in
four games.
Ortiz was charged with four runs and also allowed six hits over
5 1/3 innings for the Pirates, who lead the National League
Central but are 2-4 since winning six straight.
Suwinski, a Chicago native, got the Pirates on the board in the
first with a two-out homer into the right-center-field
bleachers. It was his 14th homer of the season and his fourth in
four games.
However, the Cubs got that run back, and then some, in the
bottom of the frame. Ortiz issued an inning-opening walk to Mike
Tauchman (two hits) and an infield single to Nico Hoerner before
Happ's homer.
Pittsburgh cut that deficit to one in the second when Josh
Palacios blooped a double into left field and scored on Ji Hwan
Bae's two-out single. The Pirates tied it on Suwinski's towering
drive just inside the right field foul pole in the sixth.
Chicago's Matt Mervis delivered a tiebreaking RBI single in the
bottom of the sixth, and the Cubs broke things open in the
seventh, highlighted by Yan Gomes' two-run single.
--Field Level Media
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