Giants get extra-inning revenge, top Cubs in 10

CHICAGO -- One day after absorbing a heartbreaking extra-inning loss at Wrigley Field, the Giants managed to flip the script on the Cubs.

Matt Chapman delivered a go-ahead single in the top of the 10th inning to lift the Giants to a 2-1 win in Sunday night’s series finale on the North Side, securing a 5-5 road trip for San Francisco.

“We needed this one tonight,” Chapman said. “There were a lot of opportunities that both teams had, and there was some crazy back and forth. Our bullpen was able to come in and shut it down. We played good defense. To get that hit in the 10th -- it felt good to put us up.”

Before Chapman came through with his clutch hit, the Giants appeared to be in danger of getting walked off for the second straight day. The Cubs threatened in the bottom of the ninth after putting runners on first and second with two outs against Keaton Winn, who surrendered a game-tying home run to Pete Crow-Armstrong on Saturday that set up Chicago’s 3-2 walk-off win in 10 innings.

But Winn didn’t buckle this time around, coaxing a groundout from Crow-Armstrong to preserve a 1-1 tie and send the game into extras. Winn said he thought Crow-Armstrong was sitting on his splitter in the previous game, so he made sure not to throw him the same pitch in the zone during their rematch on Sunday.

“It felt good,” Winn said. “I kind of learned my lesson, I guess, the night before. But I felt good today and made an adjustment to go out and do it again.”

The Giants subsequently went ahead in the top of the 10th, when Chapman stroked a single to right field that scored pinch-runner Jonah Cox -- the automatic runner -- from second base.

Right-hander Dylan Smith took over in the bottom of the 10th, striking out Michael Conforto and coaxing popouts from Michael Busch and Alex Bregman to leave Crow-Armstrong stranded at third and earn his first career save.

“Smitty is a confident guy,” manager Tony Vitello said. “He’s been in a lot of fires. Right away, we bring him up and he’s in an extra-inning game for us. He made us look good.”

The Giants jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning thanks to the red-hot Jung Hoo Lee, who lined a two-out RBI single off Cubs starter Jameson Taillon to extend his hitting streak to a career-high 15 games. Lee is batting .483 (28-for-58) over that span, which is the longest active streak in the Majors.

Taillon returned to the mound in the top of the second, but he ended up exiting the game with a left hamstring strain after issuing a leadoff walk to Chapman. Left-hander Javier Assad came in to replace Taillon and turned in a brilliant performance for the Cubs, allowing only one hit over 6 1/3 innings.

Rookie Trevor McDonald opened his start by retiring the first eight batters he faced, but he allowed the Cubs to tie the game behind three consecutive singles from Kelly, Crow-Armstrong and Moisés Ballesteros in the bottom of the third.

“I think, overall, keeping that lineup to one run, I’ll take that any day,” said McDonald, who departed after throwing 87 pitches over five innings. “Our bullpen was absolutely lights-out when they came in after.”

Left-hander Erik Miller fell into a self-inflicted jam in the eighth, when he issued a leadoff walk and then committed an error on Busch’s dribbler down the first-base line. Miller tried to make a backhanded flip to Rafael Devers, but the ball ended up sailing over the Giants’ first baseman, allowing pinch-runner Kevin Alcántara to advance from first to third and put runners on the corners with no outs for the Cubs.

Still, Devers helped bail Miller out by snagging Bregman’s subsequent liner and throwing to third to double off Alcántara, who had prematurely taken off for home. Miller then struck out Ian Happ swinging on a slider to end the inning.

“He’s a smart baseball player,” Chapman said of Devers. “He knows the game. He pays attention, so I’m not surprised that he knew what to do with the baseball there.”

By taking two of three from the Cubs, the Giants secured their first series win on the road since May 15-17 against the A’s, though they won’t have much time to rest on their laurels. The Giants were due to land back in San Francisco around 4 a.m. PT on Monday morning, a brutally short turnaround for their 6:45 p.m. series opener against the Nationals at Oracle Park later that day.

“Tomorrow will be, obviously, a light day before the game,” Vitello said. “But the real challenge is going to be on Tuesday, I think, where things kind of start to settle in. It'll be interesting to see how that affects the guys and how they kind of rise to the challenge.”