CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Mois\u00e9s Ballesteros, Nico Hoerner and Ian Happ homered, and the Chicago Cubs handed the Mets their ninth straight loss, pounding New York 12-4 on Friday.<\/p>\n
The Mets’ skid is their worst since the 2004 team dropped 11 straight. They\u2019ve been outscored 56-16 during the streak.<\/p>\n
Chicago scored in double digits for the third straight game and major league-leading fourth time this season.<\/p>\n
Ballesteros made it 4-0 in the first with a three-run homer.<\/p>\n
Hoerner had three hits and drove in two runs after setting a career high with five RBIs in Wednesday\u2019s 11-2 win at Philadelphia. His two-run shot in the second against Kodai Senga (0-3) made it 6-3. The two-time Gold Glove second baseman also made a diving stop to rob Bo Bichette of a hit in the fifth.<\/p>\n
Happ added a two-run drive in the eighth.<\/p>\n
Edward Cabrera (2-0) went six innings, allowing three runs and eight hits, as the Cubs rolled to their third straight win.<\/p>\n
Senga got tagged for seven runs in his second straight start.<\/p>\n
The Japanese right-hander gave up six earned to go with six hits in 3 1\/3 innings after lasting just 2 1\/3 in a loss to the Athletics last week. His ERA through four starts is 8.83.<\/p>\n
After outscoring Philadelphia by a combined 21-6 in their previous two games, the Cubs jumped on Senga.<\/p>\n
Seiya Suzuki singled in a run in the first and Ballesteros made it 4-0 when he drove the next pitch to the left-field basket.<\/p>\n
The Mets cut it to 4-3 in the second on an RBI double by Marcus Semien and two-run single by Tyrone Taylor off the center-field wall. Taylor got thrown out at second by Pete Crow-Armstrong.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
The series continues with the Mets sending RHP Freddy Peralta (1-1, 3.86 ERA) to the mound and the Cubs going with RHP Jameson Taillon (0-1, 4.86). ___<\/p>\n
AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n
Andrew Seligman, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Mois\u00e9s Ballesteros, Nico Hoerner and Ian Happ homered, and the Chicago Cubs handed the Mets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-611067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}