Thairo Estrada hit a tiebreaking homer in the seventh inning and had two RBIs, while Wilmer Flores clubbed a two-run drive in the eighth, as the visiting San Francisco Giants beat the Chicago Cubs 4-2 on Sunday night.
Facing Chicago reliever Hayden Wesneski (1-1), who didn't allow a run over the first six innings of his major league career, Estrada lined a ball just over the left field scoreboard to break a late 1-1 tie.
Flores, with a man on, went deep into the same left field bleachers off Wesneski an inning later, which proved important after Chicago's Seiya Suzuki clubbed a solo homer in the bottom of the eighth.
Meanwhile, Zack Littell (3-3), Camilo Doval (22nd save) and four other pitchers, on a bullpen game, helped the Giants (67-73) to a second consecutive victory to take the three-game set. It marked San Francisco's first winning road series of at least three games since June 17-19 at Pittsburgh.
Starter Wade Miley allowed one run and four hits, while walking a batter and striking out five over five innings for Chicago (58-82), which is 6-15 since winning five in a row from Aug. 16-20.
The veteran left-hander allowed one hit through the first three innings. Then J.D. Davis doubled off the left field ivy to open the fourth, and ultimately scored on Estrada's slow-rolling single into right field with two out.
Chicago tied the game in the fifth inning off Yunior Marte. With two out, Zach McKinstry, who recorded his first career four-hit game, doubled and scored on a single from Rafael Ortega, who went to second on the play via right fielder Luis Gonzalez's error.
Estrada's home run was his 13th of the season, while Flores' drive matched a career high with his 18th. It was also the 13th homer of Suzuki's first major league campaign.
Chicago shortstop Nico Hoerner had two hits and made a few nifty defensive plays in the field before exiting the game after five innings due to right triceps tightness.
--Field Level Media
San Francisco | Chi. Cubs | |
John Brebbia | Player | Wade Miley |
No Decision | W/L | No Decision |
1.0 | IP | 5.0 |
0 | Strikeouts | 5 |
1 | Hits | 4 |
0.00 | ERA | 1.80 |
San Francisco | Chi. Cubs | |
Thairo Estrada | Player | Zach McKinstry |
2 | Hits | 4 |
2 | RBI | 0 |
1 | HR | 0 |
5 | TB | 7 |
.500 | Avg | .800 |
Team | Hits | HR | TB | Avg | LOB | K | RBI | BB | SB | Errors |
San Francisco | 8 | 2 | 15 | .235 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Chi. Cubs | 12 | 1 | 19 | .333 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |