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Keegan Thompson allowed a run in six innings as the Chicago Cubs won 6-3 on Monday night, losing their sixth straight to the visiting Washington Nationals.
Rookies Nelson Velazquez and Christopher Morel hit home runs in his third inning for the Cubs, who have won six in their last seven games.
Velázquez scored his first three hits of his game, while Morell and Wilson Contreras each scored two hits. Thompson (9-5) not only hit Luke with Voight's home run and his four hits, but also recorded his three strikeouts without a walk, his second win in three games. I got
Rowanwick pitched his ninth inning scoreless and recorded his fifth save.
Chicago had his 7 of his 11 hits off Anibal Sanchez (0-5), with Sanchez allowing 4 runs and he walking 2, giving Washington his lead in just over five innings. He had three hits. The Nationals are winning 51-20 during the current skid, the fifth time this season the team has lost at least his six straight.
Joey Meneses hit his two-run homer in his eighth inning as a pinch hitter, and the Nationals lost six in a row.
The Cubs went 13 straight innings in which he failed to record a single run, and he took a 1–0 lead as Velázquez pushed Sanchez deep into the left field bleachers. It was Velazquez's sixth long ball. After Sanchez walked Nick Madrigal, Morell hit another long home run to the left to make it 3–0, his 10th of the season.
Washington, Juan Soto's 15th homer in Voight's, his second in five games since coming over from San Diego as part of his package, saw him six innings. I boarded the board.
The Cubs ran back on Nico Horner's RBI his single in the bottom of the frame. Contreras added an RBI single and Seiya Suzuki added a sacrifice fly in Chicago's seventh inning. That's 9-7 since the All-Star break.
Nelson Cruz has his two hits with the Nationals and has lost 11 of his last 18 regular season games in Chicago.
The Cubs announced Monday that injured outfielder Jason Heyward, who is out due to a knee injury, will not be returning to the team in his 2023.
– Field Level Media
