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 one scoreless inning.
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 last nine games.
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 joined Andy Pages in crushing a solo homer and capped the 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 last three games.
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 it quickly loaded 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.
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.
