Pete Crow-Armstrong belted a game-ending two-run homer in the 10th inning to cap a 4-for-5, two-homer night, lifting the host Chicago Cubs to a 7-5 victory against the Chicago White Sox on Monday.
Nico Hoerner added four hits and two RBIs while Alex Bregman had three hits for the Cubs, who had lost three of their previous four games.
Out-hit 14-4, the American League Central-leading White Sox rallied from a pair of deficits before Jordan Hicks blew a save opportunity in the ninth inning.
Hoerner tied the game with an RBI single off Hicks, who issued a pair of one-out walks. Hicks recovered to strike out Miguel Amaya and induce Carson Kelly into a forceout to third with the bases loaded to send the game to extra innings.
The White Sox loaded the bases with two outs in the top of the 10th, with Braden Montgomery winning an ABS challenge to work a walk from Jacob Webb. Tristan Peters grounded out to first base to end the threat.
White Sox left-hander Hagen Smith (2-1) yielded Crow-Armstrong’s blast leading off the bottom of the 10th.
Webb (5-2) earned the victory as the Cubs evened the season series at two games apiece.
Pinch hitter Andrew Benintendi belted a two-run homer in the eighth inning to put the White Sox ahead 5-4 on a night filled with long balls.
Crow-Armstrong and Seiya Suzuki hit back-to-back home runs against White Sox right-hander Luis Castillo to open the game, staking Cubs lefty Shota Imanaga to a 2-0 lead after just five pitches.
Imanaga set down nine of the first 10 White Sox he faced before encountering trouble in the fourth. Munetaka Murakami worked a walk and Miguel Vargas singled ahead of Randal Grichuk’s three-run homer.
Castillo scattered four runs, three earned, and eight hits over 4 2/3 innings with one walk and one strikeout. Imanaga allowed three runs and two hits in six innings with three walks and 10 strikeouts.
The Cubs capitalized on a throwing error by Vargas at third base to take a 4-3 lead in the fifth. With runners on the corners and two outs, Hoerner hit a soft ground ball down the third base line. With Hoerner sprinting to leg out an infield single, Vargas made an errant throw that caromed into right field, allowing two runs to score.
The Cubs stranded 13 runners compared to eight for the White Sox, whose three-game winning streak ended.
–Field Level Media
