CHICAGO — The Giants arrived at Wrigley Field hoping to achieve some floor within the National League’s crowded Wild Card image. Instead, San Francisco skilled why Cubs lefty Justin Steele is within the dialog for the league’s Cy Young Award.
On Monday afternoon, Steele was sensible over eight innings, setting a profession excessive with 12 strikeouts and guiding the North Siders to a 5-0 victory on the Friendly Confines. The left-hander restricted San Francisco to simply two hits and retired 16 batters in a row in a single dominant stretch between the second and eighth frames.
With the win, the Cubs pulled inside three video games of the NL Central-leading Brewers, pending the end result of Milwaukee’s Monday matchup with the Pirates. Chicago held agency within the second Wild Card spot, whereas the Giants dropped 4 video games behind the Cubs and a half-game again of the D-backs (vs. Rockies), Reds (vs. Mariners) and Marlins (off).
Steele improved to 16-3 and lowered his ERA to 2.55, which ranks second behind solely San Diego’s Blake Snell (2.50 ERA) amongst certified MLB pitchers. He grew to become the primary Cubs pitcher to fan a minimum of a dozen batters since Yu Darvish achieved the feat on Sept. 22, 2019. Steele is the primary Cubs left-handed beginning pitcher since 1901 with a begin of a minimum of eight scoreless innings, permitting two hits or fewer and placing out a minimum of 12.
Righty Logan Webb was stable over 6 2/3 innings for San Francisco, however flinched sufficient instances to provide Steele the cushion required to hoist the “W” flag. Seiya Suzuki delivered a solo homer within the second and ignited a two-run rally within the seventh with an RBI double.
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