Miguel Amaya belted a game-tying solo homer with two outs in the ninth inning and Ian Happ hit a walk-off RBI single in the 10th, fueling the host Chicago Cubs to an 11-10 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday.
Chicago’s Kyle Tucker blasted a two-run homer in the eighth and Amaya deposited a 0-1 fastball from Tanner Scott over the wall in center field to forge a 10-10 tie.
Vidal Brujan, who started the 10th inning at second base, came around to score after Happ — who went 4-for-5 — sent a first-pitch screwball from Noah Davis (0-1) into right field.
Happ’s RBI single made a winner out of Porter Hodge (2-0), who struck out one without allowing a hit in a scoreless inning. Shota Imanaga got the start for Chicago and pitched 5⅔ innings. He allowed five runs — just two of them were earned — on six hits while striking out six.
Chicago’s Pete Crow-Armstrong highlighted a three-hit performance with an RBI double in a five-run first inning and a two-run homer in the fifth.
In the first, Seiya Suzuki ripped a two-run double, Dansby Swanson slapped an RBI triple and Amaya had an RBI single to help send the Cubs to their sixth win in the past nine games. Suzuki has two hits in five at-bats.
Tommy Edman belted a three-run shot in the first inning for his team-leading eighth homer of the season. He also launched a three-run shot in Los Angeles’ 3-0 victory over Chicago on April 11.
Will Smith and Andy Pages each crushed solo homers for the Dodgers, and Smith capped a five-run uprising in the seventh inning with an RBI double. Edman also had a sacrifice fly for the Dodgers, who have lost two of their past three games. Shohei Ohtani was hitless in four at-bats.
Crow-Armstrong continued his torrid stretch by sending a 2-2 fastball from May over the wall in right-center field to stake Chicago to a 7-4 lead in the fifth inning. The homer was his fourth of the season and third against the Dodgers.
Los Angeles inched closer on Smith’s line-drive homer in the sixth before quickly loading the bases in the seventh. Third baseman Gage Workman’s error allowed one run to score, and Freddie Freeman ripped a two-run double off Brad Keller into left field to stake the Dodgers to an 8-7 lead.
Ethan Roberts took over on the mound, and Edman’s sacrifice fly and Smith’s double gave Los Angeles a bit more of a cushion.
Edman’s early blast staked Los Angeles to a quick lead before Chicago responded with five runs in its half of the first inning.
Pages halved the deficit in the second inning by capping an eight-pitch at-bat with a homer to left-center field.
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