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Nico Hoerner had two hits and two runs and Cody
Bellinger returned from missing a month with a left knee
contusion to drive home the tiebreaking run in the fifth as the
Cubs completed their first home sweep of 2023. Chicago won for
the fifth time in six games overall.
Jason Delay had two hits for Pittsburgh, which leads the
National League Central but has dropped six of eight. Pirates
starter Johan Oviedo (3-6) was charged with four runs while
allowing eight hits and one walk over 4 1/3 innings. He fanned
eight.
Pittsburgh jumped in front in the third. Ji Hwan Bae singled,
went to third on Delay's opposite-field knock to right and
scored on Tucupita Marcano's line-drive single to center. Delay
eventually scored on Carlos Santana's groundout.
Chicago cut the 2-0 deficit in half in the bottom of the third.
Oviedo walked Hoerner, who stole second and scored on Happ's
single.
That duo came through again in the fifth, when Hoerner singled
and scored on Happ's double into the left field corner to tie
the game. Then with Pittsburgh's Jose Hernandez on the mound,
Bellinger drove in Happ with a double to give Chicago the 3-2
lead.
Morel plated another run on a liner off third baseman Ke'Bryan
Hayes' glove, and Bellinger scored on Nick Madrigal's
safety-squeeze bunt.
Hoerner, though, wasn't through in the fifth. A run scored on
his grounder that was booted by Marcano at shortstop.
The Cubs added another run on Morel's sacrifice fly in the
sixth.
--Field Level Media
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