{"id":769425,"date":"2026-06-30T07:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T07:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/769425\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T07:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T07:37:25","slug":"suzuki-hits-game-ending-single-off-miller-as-the-cubs-beat-the-padres-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/769425\/","title":{"rendered":"Suzuki hits game-ending single off Miller as the Cubs beat the Padres 3-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Seiya Suzuki hit a game-ending single off Mason Miller in the ninth inning, and the Chicago Cubs beat the San Diego Padres 3-2 on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Dansby Swanson and Pete Crow-Armstrong started the decisive rally with a pair of singles off Jason Adam (2-2). Miller then came in and surrendered Alex Bregman\u2019s single to center, loading the bases.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Busch followed with a flyball to left, and Jase Bowen cut down Swanson when he attempted to score on the play. Suzuki then sent Bowen all the way back to the ivy-covered wall with a drive to left. Bowen tried to make a leaping catch, but was unable to haul it in.<\/p>\n<p>It was Suzuki\u2019s second career game-ending hit and Chicago\u2019s major league-leading 10th walk-off win this season.<\/p>\n<p>Trent Thornton (3-2) worked the ninth for the win. Fernando Tatis Jr. hit a one-out single, but he was thrown out by catcher Miguel Amaya when he attempted to steal second.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego opened a 2-0 lead when Miguel And\u00fajar scored on Xander Bogaerts\u2019 double in the fourth. And\u00fajar finished with three hits.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago got one back on Michael Conforto\u2019s RBI single in the fourth. Suzuki tied it at 2 with a sacrifice fly in the fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Cubs left-hander Shota Imanaga allowed nine hits in 6 1\/3 innings in his first quality start since May 13. It was a sorely needed performance after the Cubs used seven pitchers in a 4-3 win at Milwaukee on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin Canning started for the Padres and surrendered five hits in 4 1\/3 innings on warm and windy night at Wrigley Field. The Padres had used an opener in front of the right-hander in his previous two outings.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>JP Sears (1-0,3.18 ERA) starts for the Padres on Tuesday, and fellow left-hander Matthew Boyd (2-1, 5.02 ERA) takes the mound for the Cubs.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Seiya Suzuki hit a game-ending single off Mason Miller in the ninth inning, and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[5154,64,63,4034,485,5158,119069,54362,220416,9288,9286,365908,25109,33153,10682,365910,50486,6593,52835,365909,591,6784,50484,5886,1189,14536,16073,85,171685,42153],"class_list":["post-769425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-alex-bregman","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baseball","tag-california","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-dansby-swanson","tag-fernando-tatis-jr","tag-griffin-canning","tag-il-state-wire","tag-illinois","tag-jase-bowen","tag-jason-adam","tag-jp-sears","tag-mason-miller","tag-matt-boyd","tag-michael-busch","tag-michael-conforto","tag-miguel-amaya","tag-miguel-andjar","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-pete-crow-armstrong","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-seiya-suzuki","tag-shota-imanaga","tag-sports","tag-trent-thornton","tag-xander-bogaerts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}