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One of baseball's most successful pitchers over
the last month, Suarez (2-2) recorded his sixth straight quality
start. On Tuesday, he yielded four hits (two apiece to Cody
Bellinger and Nick Madrigal) while walking one, striking out
eight and hitting a batter.
Suarez has allowed six runs over 40 innings (1.35 ERA) over his
past six starts. He left the game with a 5-0 lead, Bellinger and
Madrigal on base and one out in the eighth.
Bellinger scored on Nico Hoerner's single off Gregory Soto, but
Soto then struck out Seiya Suzuki and Ian Happ to end the
inning.
Craig Kimbrel threw a scoreless ninth inning as Philadelphia won
the opener of a three-game series.
Marsh hit his first homer since May 28, a solo shot off Chicago
starter Jameson Taillon (2-6) in the second. He took Taillon
deep again in the fifth, a two-run blast that was his seventh
homer of the season.
Taillon completed five innings, but his struggles as a
first-year Cub continued while giving up five runs on seven
hits. He recorded a season-high eight strikeouts and walked one.
Taillon has allowed seven homers in his past four starts for
Chicago, which has lost two straight after winning nine of the
previous 10.
Two batters into the game, Philadelphia had a 1-0 lead against
Taillon. Ex-Cub Kyle Schwarber (two hits) doubled, then scored
on Trea Turner's line-drive single to right field. The Phillies
made it 2-0 in the second when Marsh sent a Taillon pitch well
into the right field bleachers.
Marsh went deep again to essentially the same spot for his
second career multi-homer game during Philadelphia's three-run
fifth. The frame was capped by an RBI single from Nick
Castellanos.
Kody Clemens also had two hits for Philadelphia.
--Field Level Media
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