New York Yankees at Chicago Cubs

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New York Yankees

82-61, 45-30 Away

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Chicago Cubs

73-70, 38-33 Home

Cubs beat AL East-leading Yankees 2-1 to avoid a series sweep

Taillon (10-8) struck out six against his former team. He gave up Anthony Volpe's second-inning, RBI sacrifice fly and allowed six hits.

“I've been dealing with a little bit of this and that lately, and that just means when you're out there, you've just got to execute,” Taillon said. “Maybe you don't have the same stuff you would if you were feeling 110% in April. Here we are in September, deeper in the year. That's when the prep work and scouting and knowing their tendencies (pay off), and then it's just going out there and executing a game.”

New York remained a half-game ahead of second-place Baltimore in the AL East.

Chicago won 10 of 13 games in late August, but had dropped four of five to the Pirates and Yankees during its homestand entering Sunday.

Isaac Paredes singled with the bases loaded in the first against Gerrit Cole (6-4) to drive in both runs. The runs were unearned because of an error by Gleyber Torres, who leads big league second basemen with 17 errors this season.

Cole struck out seven in six innings on his 34th birthday.

The Cubs had just three hits, all off Cole — one apiece from Ian Happ, Dansby Swanson and Paredes. Happ also had two spectacular catches in left field to keep New York from getting extra-base hits.

“He made a big impact on the game today for sure,” manager Craig Counsell said about Happ. “Those were two big plays, two really good defensive plays that can change the game. In a game where both sides were pitching really well, you have to make plays, and we made some big plays.”

Nate Pearson struck out two and Porter Hodge finished off the ninth by striking out Volpe for his fourth save.

It was the first series of at least two games in which the Yankees didn’t hit or allow a home run since Sept. 5-7, 2014, against Kansas City.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Cubs RHP Julian Merryweather, out since Aug. 26 with right knee tendinitis, pitched a bullpen session Saturday and will go to Triple-A Iowa to throw another bullpen session on Tuesday. … Chicago LHP Justin Steele threw a bullpen session on Saturday and will travel with the team to Los Angeles on Monday. Craig Counsell said Steele is “trending to be back next week.”

BACK TO TRIPLE-A

The Yankees optioned OF Duke Ellis to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre after the game.

LHP Carlos Rodón (14-9, 4.19 ERA) is scheduled to open at home Monday against the Royals . The Cubs head to Los Angeles to face the Dodgers on Monday, where RHP Kyle Hendricks (3-11, 6.60) is expected to get the start.

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Matchup Prediction

Cubs: 44.7%

Yankees: 55.3%

*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Volpe struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Ellis stole second.
	9th Inning	Ellis ran for Rizzo
	9th Inning	Rizzo walked.
	9th Inning	Chisholm Jr. flied out to left.
	9th Inning	Stanton grounded out to shortstop.

Statistics

NYY		CHC
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
10	Ground Balls	5
9	Strikeouts	10
1	Runs Batted In	2
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
6	Hits	3
1	Stolen Bases	0
2	Walks	2
0	Catcher Interference	0
1	Runs	2
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
1	Sacrifice Flies	0
32	At Bats	28
0	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
13	Runners Left On Base	9
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
2	Doubles	1
14	Fly Balls	13
0	Caught Stealing	0
135	Pitches	129
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	0
8	Total Bases	4
35	Plate Appearances	30
0.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
2	Extra Base Hits	1
1.9	Runs Created	-0.1
.188	Batting Average	.107
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.250	Slugging Percentage	.143
.156	Secondary Average	.107
.229	On Base Percentage	.167
.479	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.310
0.7	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.4
1.9	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	-0.1
15.0	Batter Rating	13.0
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.86	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.30
.063	Isolated Power	.036
0.22	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.20
.057	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.067
-.031	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.000
2.0	Runs Produced	4.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.3	Patience Ratio	0.2
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.2
67.3	MLB Rating	61.8
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0