Four innings, five runs, and it still did not matter
Jacob Misiorowski walked four and gave up five runs in four innings. Career worsts, both of them. He walked off the mound at Wrigley Field on Wednesday night with Milwaukee somehow ahead 6-5.
That is what a 14-hit lineup does for a pitcher having his worst night of the season. The Brewers beat the Cubs 9-5 and moved to 87-53, the best record in baseball.
Jackson Chourio did most of the damage. Four hits, one of them a home run, two runs scored. William Contreras broke the tie with an RBI single. Milwaukee has now won six of its last eight.
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Bregman kept Chicago in it
Alex Bregman homered and drove in four of Chicago’s five runs, which is the only reason this game stayed close past the middle innings. He is hitting .331 over his last 35 games, 48 hits in 145 at-bats, with 14 home runs and 37 RBIs in that stretch. Nobody in this Cubs lineup has been hotter.
It bought Chicago nothing. The Cubs have lost three of four and sit 78-62, nine games behind Milwaukee in the National League Central with a month to play. That gap has stopped looking like a race.
The part of the night that saved Misiorowski
The 6-foot-7 right-hander was making his 26th start of the season and the 40th of his career. Five earned runs matched a career high. So did the four walks. He still struck out five, which tells you the stuff was there and the command was not.
He also stopped the bleeding. Misiorowski shut the Cubs out over his final two innings and handed the ball to the bullpen with a lead instead of a deficit. For a pitcher still learning how to survive a bad day, that is the useful line in the box score.
A night earlier, these same Cubs had hit nine home runs in a franchise-record rout of Milwaukee. Wrigley has a short memory.
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