Mike Tauchman hit a game-ending homer, and the Chicago Cubs handed the Chicago White Sox their 13th consecutive loss with a 7-6 victory Wednesday night.
Tauchman drove Michael Kopech's second pitch in the ninth inning - a 98.4 mph fastball - deep to center for his fifth of the season. It was the first career game-ending homer for the Palatine, Illinois, native.
Tauchman had two hits and scored three times as the Cubs (31-31) got back to .500 with their third victory in four games. Cody Bellinger drove in two runs, and Héctor Neris (6-0) got three outs for the win.
The North Siders erased a 5-0 deficit in a 7-6 victory over the South Siders on Tuesday night at Wrigley Field.
The last-place White Sox (15-47) have led by at least two runs at one point in each of their last five losses. The 13-game slide is the longest in the majors this year and matches the single-season franchise record set in 1924.
Corey Julks hit his first career leadoff homer for the South Siders, who have the majors' worst road record at 5-26.
Kopech (1-6) has allowed at least one run in three of his last four outings.
The Cubs erased a 5-3 deficit with three runs in the seventh, capped by Ian Happ's broken-bat single for the only hit of the inning. Michael Soroka committed a balk - the second one of the night for the White Sox - and threw a run-scoring wild pitch during an 11-pitch at-bat by Tauchman.
Bellinger set up Happ's go-ahead blooper with a sacrifice fly. But Paul DeJong tied it again when he greeted Hayden Wesneski with a 407-foot leadoff shot to left in the eighth for his 10th homer.
Julks drove Jameson Taillon's first pitch of the game deep to left for his second homer, and the White Sox added four more runs in the fourth on six singles.
The Cubs got two back in the fifth, taking advantage of some sloppiness for the White Sox.
Seiya Suzuki's grounder to second turned into an infield single when an out-of-position Sheets was late getting over to first base. That loaded the bases for Bellinger, who drove in Dansby Swanson with a fielder's choice. A balk on Erick Fedde brought home another run.
The Cubs finished the game without second baseman Nico Hoerner, who was ejected in the fourth by home plate umpire Vic Carapazza. Hoerner protested after he struck out looking on a ball that appeared to be outside, and he was thrown out for the first time in 452 appearances in the majors.
White Sox RHP Jake Woodford (0-1, 6.23 ERA) starts on Thursday night in the opener of a four-game series against Boston. RHP Tanner Houck (5-5, 1.85 ERA) goes for the visiting Red Sox. Hear this weekend's action on WHOW.
Cubs RHP Javier Assad (4-1, 2.27 ERA) takes the mound on Thursday night at Cincinnati. RHP Hunter Greene (3-2, 3.44 ERA) starts for the Reds in the opener of a four-game set.
