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San Francisco Giants at Chicago Cubs

Final
Wrigley Field70°, Partly Cloudy36,317

Recap

Player of the gameJavier AssadCHC6.1ip 1h 0er 5k

One day after absorbing a heartbreaking extra-inning loss at Wrigley Field, the Giants managed to flip the script on the Cubs. Matt Chapman delivered a go-ahead single in the top of the 10th inning to lift the Giants to a 2-1 win in Sunday night’s series finale on the North Side, securing a 5-5 road trip for San Francisco. “We needed this one tonight,” Chapman said. “There were a lot of opportunities that both teams had, and there was some crazy back and forth. Our bullpen was able to come in and shut it down. We played good defense. To get that hit in the 10th -- it felt good to put us up.” Before Chapman came through with his clutch hit, the Giants appeared to be in danger of getting walked off for the second straight day. The Cubs threatened in the bottom of the ninth after putting runners on first and second with two outs against Keaton Winn, who surrendered a game-tying home run to Pete Crow-Armstrong on Saturday that set up Chicago’s 3-2 walk-off win in 10 innings. But Winn didn’t buckle this time around, coaxing a groundout from Crow-Armstrong to preserve a 1-1 tie and send the game into extras. Winn said he thought Crow-Armstrong was sitting on his splitter in the previous game, so he made sure not to throw him the same pitch in the zone during their rematch on Sunday. “It felt good,” Winn said. “I kind of learned my lesson, I guess, the night before. But I felt good today and made an adjustment to go out and do it again.” The Giants subsequently went ahead in the top of the 10th, when Chapman stroked a single to right field that scored pinch-runner Jonah Cox -- the automatic runner -- from second base. Right-hander Dylan Smith took over in the bottom of the 10th, striking out Michael Conforto and coaxing popouts from Michael Busch and Alex Bregman to leave Crow-Armstrong stranded at third and earn his first career save. “Smitty is a confident guy,” manager Tony Vitello said. “He’s been in a lot of fires. Right away, we bring him up and he’s in an extra-inning game for us. He made us look good.”

Team stats

4Hits7
0Home runs0
4Walks5
9Strikeouts10
1Stolen bases1
154Pitches thrown147
10Pitching strikeouts9

Box score

BattersABRHRBIHRBBSO
Bryce EldridgeDH3000010
Willy AdamesSS4000003
Jonah CoxPR-CF0100000
Jung Hoo LeeRF4011000
Drew GilbertCF-LF2000011
Matt Chapman3B3021010
Casey SchmittLF5000002
Daniel SusacC3000000
Rafael Devers1B3100013
Luis Arraez2B4010000
Totals31242049
PitchersIPHRERBBSOHR
Dylan SmithP1.0000010
Keaton WinnP1.0100110
JT BrubakerP1.0100000
Caleb KilianP1.0000010
Erik MillerP1.0100110
Trevor McDonaldP5.0411360