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Charlie Blackmon, Brendan Rodgers and Ryan
McMahon had singles for Colorado, which was outhit 9-3 and has
lost four of five road games to begin the season.
Imanaga (1-0), who signed a four-year deal with Chicago in
January, didn't allow a hit for the first 5 2/3 innings before
Blackmon and Rodgers had consecutive two-out singles for the
Rockies. Imanaga ended his day by striking out Nolan Jones.
Dakota Hudson (0-1) was strong in his Colorado debut but was
victimized by two errors on one play in the sixth inning. Hudson
allowed three runs -- all unearned -- on four hits and struck
out two.
The hitters faced a strong headwind, which helped keep the game
scoreless. Blackmon had a deep drive to the wall in center field
that might have gone out on a calmer day, and several other
drives to the outfield were neutralized by the wind.
The Cubs took advantage of poor fielding to end the scoreless
game in the sixth. Ian Happ and Seiya Suzuki led off the inning
with singles to put runners on first and second. After Bellinger
flew out to center, Morel hit a sharp single to left that rolled
under left fielder Jones' glove to the wall.
Happ and Suzuki scored on the fielding error and Morel went to
third, and he then scored on Jones' throwing error, giving
Chicago a 3-0 lead.
Nick Mears relieved Hudson to get the final two outs of the
sixth.
Chicago padded the lead in the seventh against reliever Peter
Lambert. Nico Hoerner and Mike Tauchman led off with singles to
put runners at the corners. After Hoerner was thrown out at home
trying to score on Yan Gomes' fielder's choice, Suzuki drew a
two-out walk to load the bases and Bellinger delivered a two-out
single to right.
--Field Level Media
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