Pirates starter Braxton Ashcraft struck out a career-best nine in five innings while allowing a run on Hoerner's fifth-inning RBI groundout, which cut the Cubs' deficit to 3-1.

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The Pittsburgh Pirates got a massive road win against their divisional rivals in extras.

The Pirates have certainly lost games to the Cubs at Wrigley Field before. Painful ones, too. Yet while Sunday’s outcome might’ve looked similar, it felt different for a club with raised expectations.

He threw well against the Pirates last year, six hits and two runs in 12.1 innings. Overall current Pirates are batting .233 (24-for-103) against Taillon with one home run (Bryan Reynolds). Bubba Chandler made his MLB debut last year and posted a 4.

Michael Busch ended an 0-for-30 slide with a tying, two-run single in the eighth inning and Carson Kelly had a winning single in the ninth as the Chicago Cubs overcame a five-run deficit to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 7-6.

The Chicago Cubs made a decision on reliever Hunter Harvey before the Pittsburgh Pirates game on Sunday afternoon.

Busch had been 0-for-his-last-30 before his pinch-hit single led to the Cubs tying the score in the eighth inning. Then Carson Kelly won it in the ninth.

Pittsburgh Pirates (9-5, first in the NL Central) vs. Chicago Cubs (6-8, fifth in the NL Central) Chicago; Sunday, 2:20 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Pirates: Bubba Chandler (0-1, 3.12 ERA, 1.73 WHIP,