4-run 7th vaults the Cubs in Game 1
Chatwood gets first win since May 11 in opener of split doubleheader
Cubs manager Joe Maddon spread the work as Kris Bryant and Addison Russell were out of the starting lineup for the first game of Saturday’s split doubleheader against the Cardinals at Wrigley Field.
“I didn’t want to wear (Bryant) out,” Maddon said of his third baseman, who returned July 11 after missing 16 games because of left shoulder inflammation.
Without Bryant and Russell, the Cubs found a way to generate offense as they scored twice in the fifth inning and four times in the seventh to pull away to a 7-2 victory.
Jason Heyward, Ben Zobrist and Javier Baez hit consecutive singles off Luke Weaver to snap a 1-1 tie in the fifth. Mike Mayers replaced Weaver, and Kyle Schwarber followed with a sacrifice fly.
In the seventh, Baez hit a 200-foot double down the leftfield line to score Heyward. Victor Caratini hit a bases-loaded sacri- fice fly, and Tommy La Stella hit a two-run single with two out to cap the rally off left-hander Tyler Lyons.
Tyler Chatwood walked six in 5 1⁄ innings but limited the Cardi
3 nals to one hit — a home run by Matt Carpenter in the third — to earn his first win since May 11. Chatwood worked out of a basesloaded jam by inducing Paul DeJong to ground back to the mound for a double play to end the fifth.
The Cubs scored in the first on a triple by Anthony Rizzo and a double-play grounder by Heyward.
La Stella, who pitched 1 1⁄
3 innings of relief in the Cardinals’ 18-5 humbling of the Cubs on Friday, started at third base in place of Bryant.
Baez shifted from second base to shortstop in place of Russell, and in the third he ranged far on the left-field grass, bobbled the ball but made a strong sidearm throw to retire Yadier Molina.
Newly acquired reliever Jesse Chavez pitched two scoreless innings to seal the win.
Pitcher Luke Farrell was added to the roster as the 26th player for the doubleheader.