Milwaukee Brewers at Chicago Cubs

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Milwaukee Brewers

57-43, 28-26 Away

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Chicago Cubs

49-53, 27-23 Home

Ian Happ homers, 6 Cubs pitchers cobble together 3-1 win over Brewers

Michael Busch and Dansby Swanson each had two hits as the Cubs twice escaped based-loaded jams to end NL Central-leading Milwaukee's three-game winning streak.

Willy Adames' team-leading 16th home run got the Brewers on the board in the eighth.

Garrett Mitchell had two hits, and William Contreras and Joey Ortiz doubled for the Brewers, who failed to cash in on six walks from Chicago starter Javier Assad. He gave up just one hit but only lasted 3 1/3 innings in his second outing since returning from a right forearm strain.

“Not enough strikes, clearly,” Chicago manager Craig Counsell said. “But you still look up and they've got no runs. Too many walks for sure, but we survived.”

Five relievers followed with 5 2/3 innings one-run ball. The first, Drew Smyly (3-5), got five outs the for the win and Hector Neris tossed the ninth for his 14th save.

“Just super impressive,” Happ said. “Smyly comes out there, a big situation and shuts it down. Then everybody after him did their job, executing pitches, filling up the strike zone, ahead in counts.”

Brewers rookie Tobias Myers (6-4) allowed three runs, two earned, on six hits in 5 1/3 innings.

“We didn’t come up with the big hit,” Brewers manager Pat Murphy said. “We did a great job in some areas. I think our youth showed tonight.”

Assad walked three straight with two outs in the third to load the bases, but got Sal Frelick to ground out. Assad said through a translator that after issuing the first walk of the inning, to Contreras, “everything just sped up” on him.

The Cubs took a 1-0 lead in the bottom half on Busch’s RBI single. The rookie also made several sharp plays at first base.

The Brewers loaded the bases again in the fourth but failed to score.

After Assad issued back-to-back walks, Smyly relieved and gave up a sharp single to Mitchell, but lead runner Rhys Hoskins held at third. Smyly induced two grounders to escape the jam.

The Cubs made it 2-0 in the bottom half when Mike Tauchman sprinted home from third on Myers’ wild pitch.

“Tobias was fabulous,” Murphy said. “He threw the ball great, but ... the wild pitch was an 0-2 pitch with the bases loaded and then throwing the ball away at second, that accounted for two of the three runs. Then he gave up the home run.”

Happ lined his 16th homer into the basket in right in the sixth.

Adames went deep to right-center off Porter Hodge in the eighth.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Cubs: Activated RHP Julian Merryweather (right rib stress fracture) from the 60-day injured list and optioned RHP Hunter Bigge to Triple-A Iowa. Merryweather, out since April 6, had a 1.93 ERA in 4 2/3 innings over four relief appearances before being hurt. LHP Luke Little (left shoulder strain) was transferred to the 60-day IL. ... Manager Craig Counsell said OF Cody Bellinger (left middle finger fracture) was making progress hitting and would return to fielding drills on Tuesday. The 2019 NL MVP was hit by a pitch at Baltimore on July 10.

Brewers RHP Colin Rea (9-3, 3.77 ERA) faces Cubs RHP Jameson Taillon (7-4, 3.10) on Tuesday night.

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Matchup Prediction

Cubs: 49.2%

Brewers: 50.8%

*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Contreras grounded out to first.
	9th Inning	Turang grounded out to first, Mitchell to third.
	9th Inning	Mitchell doubled to left.
	9th Inning	Ortiz flied out to left.
	9th Inning	Neris relieved Hodge
	8th Inning	Bote popped out to shortstop.

Statistics

MIL		CHC
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
14	Ground Balls	13
7	Strikeouts	8
1	Runs Batted In	2
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
5	Hits	8
0	Stolen Bases	3
6	Walks	3
0	Catcher Interference	0
1	Runs	3
0	Ground Into Double Play	2
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
32	At Bats	31
1	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
15	Runners Left On Base	18
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
3	Doubles	0
11	Fly Balls	10
0	Caught Stealing	0
158	Pitches	123
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	1
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
11	Total Bases	11
38	Plate Appearances	34
162.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
4	Extra Base Hits	1
3.6	Runs Created	3.6
.156	Batting Average	.258
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.344	Slugging Percentage	.355
.375	Secondary Average	.290
.289	On Base Percentage	.324
.633	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.678
1.3	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	1.3
3.6	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	3.9
18.0	Batter Rating	24.0
32.0	At Bats Per Home Run	31.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
4.16	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.62
.188	Isolated Power	.097
0.86	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.38
.158	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.088
.219	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.032
2.0	Runs Produced	5.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	0.7
0.5	Patience Ratio	0.4
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.3
70.0	MLB Rating	76.8
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0