Chicago Cubs at Kansas City Royals

· Major League Baseball

Chicago Cubs

50-56, 23-31 Away

Final
9 - 4

Kansas City Royals

57-48, 36-21 Home

Patrick Wisdom hits grand slam as a pinch hitter in the 7th, the Cubs beat the Royals 9-4

Patrick Wisdom gives Cubs lead with pinch-hit grand slam

Wisdom hit for Pete Crow-Armstrong and laced the homer 440-feet off Sam Long into the fountains in left for a 7-4 lead.

“That was pretty cool,” Wisdom said. “I don't think it really hit me until I was rounding second base and I saw the dugout going nuts so that was pretty special for sure.”

The runners were put on base by Seth Lugo (12-5), who went 6 1/3 innings. He allowed six earned runs on five hits while walking two and striking out two.

“He gave us a really good chance to win. He is out there in the seventh after giving up three runs,” Royals manager Matt Quatraro said. “Not as many strikeouts; they did a good job of putting the ball in play and forcing some action. Lugo gave us a chance to win but you have to give them credit for putting the ball in play.”

Julian Merryweather (1-0) pitched an inning for the victory. Cubs starter Shota Imanaga went 5 2/3 innings, allowing three earned runs on six hits and three strikeouts.

“I thought Shota was good and I think they did a really good job against him,” Cubs manager Craig Counsell said. "They were really good against the high fastball and the splitter and fouled off a ton so credit to them because I thought he threw a lot of good pitches." Overall, just a good night in all phases."

Suzuki hit his 15th homer, scoring Michael Busch to make it 2-0 in the first. Hunter Renfroe his 10th homer for Kansas City in the second.

Crow-Armstrong tripled and scored in the third inning to make it 3-1.

Kansas rallied in the sixth to take a 4-3 lead. Bobby Witt Jr. doubled in Maikel Garcia, but was thrown out rounding second base. Later, Salvador Perez singled, Freddy Fermin doubled and Renfroe followed with a two-run single.

David Bote and Nico Hoerner drove in runs in the ninth for Chicago.

ROSTER MOVES

The Cubs acquired RHP Nate Pearson from the Toronto Blue Jays in exchange for INF Josh Rivera and OF Yohendrick Pinango. RHP Jesus Tinoco was designated for assignment.

Chicago RHP Javier Assad (4-3, 3.15 ERA) is set to face LHP Cole Ragans (7-6, 3.23) on Sunday.

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Matchup Prediction

Royals: 63.7%

Cubs: 36.3%

*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Massey grounded out to first.
	9th Inning	Loftin popped out to second.
	9th Inning	Hampson fouled out to first.
	9th Inning	Renfroe singled to center.
	9th Inning	Bote at third base.
	9th Inning	Neris relieved Morel

Statistics

CHC		KC
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	1
18	Ground Balls	14
5	Strikeouts	4
9	Runs Batted In	4
1	Sacrifice Hit	0
9	Hits	9
0	Stolen Bases	0
3	Walks	1
0	Catcher Interference	0
9	Runs	4
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
36	At Bats	34
2	Home Runs	1
1	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
11	Runners Left On Base	9
1	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
1	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	3
14	Fly Balls	16
0	Caught Stealing	1
142	Pitches	138
0	Games Started	0
2	Pinch At Bats	0
2	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
17	Total Bases	15
40	Plate Appearances	36
324.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
3	Extra Base Hits	4
5.4	Runs Created	4.3
.250	Batting Average	.265
1.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.472	Slugging Percentage	.441
.306	Secondary Average	.176
.308	On Base Percentage	.306
.780	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.747
1.3	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.9
5.3	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	4.5
53.5	Batter Rating	34.0
18.0	At Bats Per Home Run	34.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.55	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.83
.222	Isolated Power	.176
0.60	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.25
.075	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.028
.056	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	-.088
18.0	Runs Produced	8.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.5	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.3
96.0	MLB Rating	84.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0