Kyle Tucker scored a three-run domestic run at the top of the fourth innings, the third homer won a 12–3 win in the game between the Chicago cub on the frame N route on the frame N route on the Houston Astro on the Houston Astro on Saturday.
Tucker scored four runs in his second game against his former club and ended 4 -for -5 and three RBI with three RBI. He spent seven seasons with Astro before his offsen trade for the cub, and he felt his presence as Chicago set a series rubber match with a major performance.
A half-inning after Astro Ruki Came Smith, the tucker in Chicago was acquired as part of the package, smashed its second domestic run of the series, the cub replied with a 2–1 deficit that Smith had made his two runs shot off cubes right-Hander Colin Ri (5-3).
Astros’ right-handed Lance McCullers Junior (1-3) stabilized the ship after an earlier rocky top, when he went into a run and threw 27 pitches, including 18 for 18 balls. McCullers threw 12 consecutive balls during a stretch in the first innings, but retired the cub in the second and third order, and returned to the fourth with a run lead in his possession.
This lead was short -lived. Michael Busch and Nico Horner pushed McCullers a back-to-back homes for a 3–2 lead. McCler, who retired eight consecutive batsmen after his base-loaded walk, resulted in a 1-0 loss, not escaped from the fourth.
Ian Hap produced an RBI single that extended the lead 4–2 and set the table for tucker, which first planted the pitch slider to the right area. His 17th home run made Reese McGir and made the cub a 7–2 lead. Seya Suzuki left for McCullers after three times in the left-center, and gave four runs with eight runs on seven hits and a strike in 3 1/3 innings.
Suzuki (2 -for -5) added his 22nd domestic runs to the top of the eighth. Dansbi Swansan went to 3 -for -4 with a walk. Bush finished 2 -for -4 with three RBI. REA conceded two runs on five hits with two strikes in five innings.
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