Rookie James Marvel got hit early and often and reliever Clay Holmes, well he just hit the Cubs often as the Pirates suffered their second straight embarrassing defeat in Wrigley Field.
The Cubs struck for yet another big inning in the second when Ben Zobrist and Nico Hoerner both singled, and after being bunted up by pitcher Kyle Hendricks, Marvel hit Anthony Rizzo with a pitch, Rizzo’s 27th of the year, to load the bases with two outs. Nicholas Castellanos then cleared the bases on a double lined to left field, and he came home on Kris Bryant’s single to right to make the score 4-0.