{"id":624246,"date":"2026-04-23T22:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/624246\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T22:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:31:07","slug":"swansons-10th-inning-hit-lifts-cubs-over-phillies-extends-win-streak-to-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/624246\/","title":{"rendered":"Swanson&#8217;s 10th-inning hit lifts Cubs over Phillies, extends win streak to nine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO \u2014 Dansby Swanson had his first game-ending hit in five years, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/chicago-cubs\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"chicago-cubs\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Chicago Cubs<\/a> rebounded from a pair of blown leads to beat Philadelphia 8-7 in 10 innings Thursday for their ninth straight win and the Phillies\u2019 ninth loss in a row.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago led 6-2 before Philadelphia closed with three runs in the seventh. Pinch-hitter Edmundo Sosa had a tying single off Jacob Webb in the eighth, Seiya Suzuki put Chicago back ahead 7-6 when he homered against Brad Keller in the bottom half and pinch-hitter Adolis Garc\u00eda retied the score when he went deep off Caleb Theilbar in the ninth.<\/p>\n<p>Swanson\u2019s opposite-field, one-out single to right-centre off Tanner Banks (0-2) drove in automatic runner Ian Happ from third for Swanson\u2019s first walk-off hit with the Cubs, giving the win to Javier Assad (2-1).<\/p>\n<p>Chicago had a season-high 18 hits and is on its longest winning streak since taking 11 in a row from July 31 through Aug. 12 in 2016 \u2013 the year the Cubs won their first World Series since 1908.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia has lost nine straight for the first time since Sept. 20-28, 2018. The Phillies haven\u2019t lost 10 in a row since an 11-game skid from Sept. 4-14, 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Busch had a three-run homer and four RBIs. Suzuki had three hits and has three home runs in three games.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Marsh hit a pair of solo home runs and finished with three hits on warm day with wind blowing out at Wrigley Field.<\/p>\n<p>Cubs starter Edward Cabrera allowed five runs \u2014 three earned \u2014 and five hits in a season-high seven innings.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher S\u00e1nchez gave up six runs and 13 hits in 5 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Phillies: RHP Andrew Painter (1-1, 4.42 ERA) faces Braves RHP (Grant Holmes 1-1, 3.42) in Atlanta on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Cubs: RHP Jameson Taillon (1-1, 3.97) take the mound versus Dodgers RHP Emmet Sheehan (2-0, 5.85) in Los Angeles on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 Dansby Swanson had his first game-ending hit in five years, and the Chicago Cubs rebounded from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-624246","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\/624246","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=624246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}