CHICAGO _ The Cubs' 10-2 loss Sunday went from bad to worse in the sixth inning.
Already trailing 6-0 to the Reds, Jason Heyward and Kris Bryant collided in right-center field. Heyward tried to catch a ball hit by Eugenio Suarez, but he smashed into Bryant, coming from right field.
Bryant apparently took a shot to the side of the head. He exited the game, walking slowly off the field.
After the game Cubs manager Joe Maddon said Bryant remains under evaluation: "He got bumped, and that's why we took him out. I don't have any kind of final analysis yet."
Heyward said very little about it: "We collided. I called for the ball."
What's your level of concern?
"Of?"
Bryant's health.
"Hope he feels great, yeah," he replied. "Time will tell."
Nick Senzel scored on the play, and Suarez scooted into third. Bryant was charged with the error.
Albert Almora Jr. entered the game in center field to replace Bryant, and Heyward moved to right.
Jose Quintana (4-4) got chased earlier in the inning after allowing his 11th and 12th hits, plus his first walk.
Carl Edwards Jr. replaced him and immediately uncorked a wild pitch. Edwards walked Senzel, eliciting boos from the Wrigley Field crowd of 40,884.
Willson Contreras homered, his 11th of the season, to open the bottom of the sixth, cutting the Reds' lead to 7-1.
Javier Baez hammered an opposite-field blast in the eighth, his 13th of the season.
Those were the only offensive highlights for the Cubs, whose frustration could be summed up by two Kyle Schwarber at-bats.
In the first inning, he took a 3-2 pitch and began to remove his ankle guard, only to be rung up by home plate umpire Doug Eddings.
In the fifth inning, he popped up to the left side and slammed his bat, breaking it.
