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SAN FRANCISCO – The Cubs needed some length out of Kyle Hendricks on Sunday after three short starts from Zach Davies, Jake Arrieta and Kohl Stewart. But after a lot of loud contact against Hendricks in the first three innings of the Cubs’ 4-3 win over the Giants, it didn’t look like he’d be able to make it through five either.
But the Cubs’ right-hander battled and despite allowing three early runs, he found another gear in the fourth inning as his next three innings looked completely different from the first three.
Hendricks retired 11 of the final 12 batters he faced and didn’t allow another hit after the third inning. He finished the game going 6 1/3 innings allowing three runs on seven hits with three walks and five strikeouts.
2021 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 56
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Boy, am I glad I didn’t decide to stay up and watch all of Thursday night’s game. I had become someone who didn’t watch a lot of West Coast baseball already. Now with the move, if I see any of it, it’s bonus. And bonus it was. I watched to see Zach Davies valiantly trying to slog through his work last night, despite what appeared to be some trouble spotting his pitches and yet another home plate umpire with a moving strike zone. Certainly not going to argue that the umpiring was unfair or anything, but during the inning I watched closest, I feel like I saw multiple obvious balls called strikes and obvious strikes called balls. Some of these umpires are really terrible.
Anthony Rizzo snapped a 1-1 tie with a two-run double in the fifth and Javier Baez later rocketed a two-run homer two innings later to lead the Chicago Cubs to