{"id":653080,"date":"2026-05-07T05:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/653080\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T05:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:19:07","slug":"busch-crow-armstrong-help-chicago-cubs-beat-cincinnati-reds-for-their-eighth-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/653080\/","title":{"rendered":"Busch, Crow-Armstrong help Chicago Cubs beat Cincinnati Reds for their eighth straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Michael Busch<\/a> drove in the winning run with a bases-loaded walk in the 10th inning after Pete Crow-Armstrong<\/a> connected for a two-run homer in the ninth, and the Chicago Cubs<\/a> beat the Cincinnati Reds<\/a> 7-6 on Wednesday night for their eighth consecutive victory.<\/p>\n

It was the third consecutive walk-off win for the Cubs. Busch hit an RBI single in the 10th inning of Tuesday night’s 3-2 victory over the Reds.<\/p>\n

Seiya Suzuki<\/a> was intentionally walked by Brock Burke<\/a> (1-2) before Busch was nearly hit by a sinker on a 3-1 pitch, bringing in the winning run and delighting the crowd of 34,143.<\/p>\n

Ian Happ<\/a> also homered as NL Central-leading Chicago won for the 18th time in 21 games overall. Happ finished with three hits and scored twice.<\/p>\n

The Cubs also won their 14th straight home game for their longest win streak at Wrigley Field since they also won 14 in a row at the iconic ballpark in 2008.<\/p>\n

Matt McLain<\/a> and Spencer Steer<\/a> homered for Cincinnati in its sixth consecutive loss. <\/p>\n

The Reds trailed 4-2 before scoring four times in the ninth. Steer hit a leadoff drive for his sixth homer, and Elly De La Cruz<\/a> drove in two runs with a tiebreaking sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n

Suzuki fell down against the wall as he hauled in Cruz’s drive to right, and McLain hustled home from second to give the Reds a 6-4 lead.<\/p>\n

But the Cubs rallied in the bottom half. Carson Kelly<\/a> hit a one-out single and Crow-Armstrong followed with a drive to left-center off Graham Ashcraft<\/a> for his fourth homer.<\/p>\n

Trent Thornton<\/a> (1-0) got three outs for the win in his Cubs debut.<\/p>\n

Happ extended his on-base streak to 27 games when he connected for his team-high ninth homer in the first inning. It was his 33rd career homer against the Reds, his highest total against any team.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Rhett Lowder<\/a> (3-2, 5.09 ERA) starts for Cincinnati on Thursday, and left-hander Shota Imanaga<\/a> (3-2, 2.40) pitches for Chicago in the finale of the four-game series.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n

Jay Cohen, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Michael Busch drove in the winning run with a bases-loaded walk in the 10th inning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-653080","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\/653080","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=653080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}