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Reds avoid 100th loss, beat Cubs 3-1 behind Hunter Greene

Hunter Greene pitched six scoreless innings and the Cincinnati Reds remained at 99 losses, beating the Chicago Cubs 3-1 on Monday night.

 

Greene (5-13) and relievers Derek Law, Buck Farmer and Alexis Diaz combined on a two-hitter to stop the Cubs' winning streak at seven games.

 

Chicago only got one runner past second base before scoring under odd circumstances in the ninth against Diaz, who picked up his 10th save. The Cubs scored on a game-ending double play that wasn't completed until Esteban Quiroz, believing he was forced out, wandered off second base and was tagged. The official scorer announced the final score as 3-0 before correcting it.

 

Quiroz also was doubled off second base in the sixth on Seiya Suzuki's line drive to shortstop Jose Barrero.

 

Greene walked one and struck out eight while throwing 90 pitches, 65 for strikes, in his last start of the season. He also hit a batter. 

 

Cubs rookie right-hander Hayden Wesneski (3-2) worked six innings, allowing four hits and two runs - one earned - with one walk and six strikeouts. He hit Jonathan India twice with pitches.

 

Donovan Solano had two of Cincinnati's six hits as the Reds scored more than two runs for the second time in their last six games. They took a 2-0 lead in third as Jose Barrero scored from second on Wesneski's throwing error of TJ Friedl's slow roller up the first-base line and India scored from second on Kyle Farmer's blooper into short right field. Farmer's hit eluded the diving effort of first baseman Alfonso Riva, who knocked it far enough away for Farmer to leg out a double.

 

India added a run-scoring ground-rule double in the eighth against Manuel Rodriguez.

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