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Skubal permitted two runs and four hits over six innings in his
first start since he was acquired in a trade with Detroit on
Saturday night. The two-time AL Cy Young Award winner threw 85
pitches, 51 for strikes.
Kyle Tucker homered for Los Angeles, which finished with four
hits in its fifth consecutive loss. It's the longest slide for
the Dodgers since they also dropped five in a row in early
September last year.
With two out and runners at the corners in the sixth, Hoerner
hit a high chopper to the right of the mound. Alex Bregman
scampered home on the infield single, giving Chicago a 2-1 lead.
The Cubs added two more in the seventh on singles by
Crow-Armstrong and Seiya Suzuki, and Hoerner made it 5-1 with a
solo homer off Edwin Díaz in the eighth.
Ryan Rolison (6-1) pitched a scoreless inning for the win.
Los Angeles jumped in front in the second. Moments after Mookie
Betts bounced into a double play, Tucker drove a 2-1 sinker from
Javier Assad to left-center for his 10th homer.
Tucker heard boos for the second consecutive night in his return
to Chicago after playing for the Cubs last season. The right
fielder, who signed a $240 million, four-year contract with the
Dodgers in free agency, also made a lunging catch on Hoerner’s
sinking liner to right in the bottom of the second.
Skubal (7-6) retired his first six batters before Swanson drove
his first pitch of the third to left-center for his 17th homer,
sending a charge through the crowd of 40,584 at Wrigley Field.
Up next
Eric Lauer (6-5, 4.50 ERA) starts for Los Angeles in the series
finale Wednesday against fellow left-hander Shota Imanaga (7-9,
3.67).
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