San Diego Padres rally to halt Chicago Cubs' winning streak at 8
Brett Wallace hit a 3-run home run Wednesday off Chicago Cubs reliever Pedro Strop, and the San Diego Padres rallied for a 7-4 victory in the day portion of a day-night doubleheader at Wrigley Field.
Wallace's home run capped a 4-run Padres rally, and it snapped the Cubs' winnning streak at eight games.
Kyle Hendricks started for the Cubs and pitched into the seventh inning. He recorded the first two outs in the inning. Cubs manager Joe Maddon turned to Strop after Hendricks gave up a bunt single to Travis Jankowski. Strop did not retire any of the five batters he faced.
In his 6⅔ innings pitched, Hendricks gave up 6 hits and 3 runs, 2 earned, while walking one and striking out eight.
The Padres scored a pair of runs in the top of the first inning before the Cubs (25-7) answered with single runs in the first and second to tie it. In the bottom of the fourth, the Cubs went ahead 4-2 on back-to-back RBI doubles by Addison Russell and Tim Federowicz.
San Diego added an insurance run in the eighth.