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07/08 20:38 CDT Crow-Armstrong hits 2 of Chicago's 5 homers and the Cubs
outslug Baltimore 9-7
Crow-Armstrong hits 2 of Chicago's 5 homers and the Cubs outslug Baltimore 9-7
By NOAH TRISTER
AP Baseball Writer
BALTIMORE (AP) --- Pete Crow-Armstrong hit two of Chicago's five home runs and
the Cubs outslugged the Baltimore Orioles 9-7 on Wednesday night.
Michael Conforto and Carson Kelly also went deep on the first two pitches of
the fifth inning for Chicago, tying the game immediately after Pete Alonso's
two-run shot had given Baltimore a 3-1 lead.
Chicago then scored five runs in the seventh, including a three-run shot by
Seiya Suzuki.
Tyler O'Neill homered twice for Baltimore and Coby Mayo also went deep.
Colin Rea (7-5) allowed three runs and seven hits in 5 1/3 innings for the
Cubs. Dean Kremer (1-2) gave up just six hits in five innings, but four of them
were solo homers.
Down 9-3 in the seventh, the Orioles made it interesting against Chicago's
bullpen. O'Neill's pinch-hit homer and Taylor Ward's RBI single made it 9-5 in
the seventh. Then Mayo added a 420-foot homer into the second deck in left
field in the eighth, and O'Neill followed with a 433-foot drive to left-center.
Jacob Webb halted the comeback, pitching a perfect ninth for his fourth save.
Crow-Armstrong now has 21 home runs and he became baseball's first 20-homer,
20-stolen base man of the season. He's just the third Cubs player with multiple
20-20 campaigns, along with Ryne Sandberg and Sammy Sosa. Only Sosa and
Crow-Armstrong have done it in back-to-back seasons.
No. 9 hitter Jackson Holliday had four hits for the Orioles, but leadoff man
Gunnar Henderson went 0 for 5 without hitting the ball out of the infield.
Henderson hit into two double plays, and when he finally hit a sharp line drive
up the middle with a runner on second in the eighth, shortstop Dansby Swanson
made a diving catch to end the inning.
One of the double plays Henderson hit into brought a run home, tying the game
at 1 in the third after Crow-Armstrong had opened the scoring in the top of the
inning.
After Alonso's 20th homer, Kremer allowed solo shots by Conforto, Kelly and
Crow-Armstrong in a four-batter span.
It was still 4-3 in the seventh when Grant Wolfram came in to pitch with two on
and one out. He allowed a walk, a sacrifice fly and another walk before
throwing a run-scoring wild pitch and then allowing Suzuki's 14th homer.
Up next
The Cubs go for a three-game sweep Thursday night, sending David Peterson (4-7)
to the mound against Trevor Rogers (6-7).
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