CHICAGO (AP) — Patrick Wisdom backed Alec Mills with two more homers and the Chicago Cubs beat the Chicago White Sox for the first time this season, winning 7-0 on Saturday night.
Rafael Ortega connected for a grand slam against Lance Lynn as the fourth-place Cubs improved to 6-19 in August. They dropped their first four games against the crosstown White Sox this year, including an ugly 17-13 loss Friday night.
Mills (6-6) worked into the ninth inning in his first win since Aug. 4. He left with one out and runners on first and second, and Codi Heuer finished the four-hitter against his former team.
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Wisdom hit solo drives in the fourth and fifth innings in his fourth career multihomer game — all coming this season. He also went deep twice Friday night on his 30th birthday.
According to the Elias Sports Bureau, he became the first rookie in franchise history to post consecutive multihomer games.
Wisdom has seven homers in his last eight games overall and 25 on the year, tops among NL rookies. He had four homers in 43 big league games coming into this season.
The White Sox had won three of four, scoring in double digits in consecutive games for the first time since April 2017. But the AL Central leaders were shut down by Mills in by far his best outing of the year.
The 29-year-old right-hander struck out three and walked two. He had lost his last two starts, yielding nine runs and 19 hits in 9 2/3 innings.
After Wisdom connected in the fourth, the Cubs loaded the bases on two walks and Robinson Chirinos’ single. Ortega then drove an 0-2 pitch from Lynn deep to right for his eighth homer of the season and No. 11 in 216 big league games overall.
It was the second career slam for Ortega, who also hit one for the Braves against the Dodgers on Aug. 18, 2019.
Lynn (10-4) allowed a season-high seven runs in five innings in his first loss since June 19. The All-Star right-hander struck out seven and walked two.
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