Christopher Morel, Cody Bellinger and Dansby Swanson each hit solo shots in the third inning, and the Chicago Cubs snapped a three-game losing streak with a 5-2 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Sunday.
Swanson added two singles and Kyle Hendricks tossed 5 2/3 effective innings to help Chicago strengthen its hold on the second NL wild card spot. Arizona's four-game winning streak ended, but the Diamondbacks remained in the third wild-card spot. Arizona held the Cubs to just four runs in winning the first three games of the series.
Pfaadt, however, entered in the third as Arizona's second reliever after manager Tory Lovullo turned to left-hander Joe Mantiply as an opener.Seby Zavala had two hits an RBI in his first game with the Diamondbacks. The catcher was claimed off waivers from the White Sox on Wednesday. Chicago took a 1-0 lead in the first, with Suzuki's ground-rule double driving in Nico Hoerner. Morel led off with a triple, but was caught between third and home and tagged out following Hoerner's comebacker. Morel atoned with his homer, a shot to left off Pfaadt to start the third that made it 2-0.
Zavala's RBI single in the fifth cut it to 4-1, but Swanson knocked in his second run of the game in the bottom half.Lovullo tweaked his pitching plans on Sunday, using the lefty Mantiply as an opener - and forcing Cubs manager David Ross to alter his lineup.
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