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Rookie starter Mick Abel allowed three solo home runs and lasted only four innings. Eight of the Phillies’ 10 hits were singles, and only two came with runners in scoring position. They had only two hits after the fifth inning. Brandon Marsh exited after hyperextending his left elbow on a slide in the fifth inning.
The Cubs then pulled ahead in the 11th on an RBI double by Crow-Armstrong. Cubs starter Matthew Boyd, who held the Phillies to two runs (one earned) in six innings, harped on his own error on a pickoff attempt, which eventually led to the second run.
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