MILWAUKEE — When it rains it pours, and the Chicago Cubs found themselves in the middle of a deluge Monday night in a 14-4 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers.
After the Cubs rallied to tie the score on Patrick Wisdom’s pinch-hit home run, the Brewers scored 10 eighth-inning runs to turn it into a rout.
Third baseman Eric Sogard took the mound to finish the disastrous inning after Ryan Tepera and Trevor Megill were shelled. The Brewers, the worst-hitting team in the majors, finished with 15 hits, including seven in the 10-run eighth.
The Cubs have lost four straight since their combined no-hitter against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Thursday night and fell four games behind the Brewers in the National League Central.
Tepera, one of four pitchers who took part in the no-hitter, fell to 0-2.
With the Cubs trailing 4-2 with one out in the seventh, and with no hits since the second inning, Wisdom came off the bench to pinch-hit for Kyle Hendricks and cranked a two-run blast to left-center off Brad Boxberger to tie the game. After Joc Pederson walked, Ian Happ foiled the shift with a shot to the left side of the infield, but Pederson was thrown out at third trying to take an extra base. Javier Báez struck out to end the threat.
The Cubs left the bases loaded in the top of the eighth before Tepera came in and issued a pair of one-out walks and an RBI double to Jackie Bradley Jr. After a sacrifice fly and a run-scoring double by Luis Urías, Tepera was replaced by Megill, who was called up from Triple-A Iowa earlier in the day.
Megill surrendered a pair of three-run home runs to Willy Adames and Keston Hiura, allowing six runs without retiring a hitter.
Happ’s two-run homer in the first gave the Cubs a quick 2-0 lead, but the Brewers answered with a pair in the bottom of the inning on Avisaíl García’s two-run single. García’s homer in the third gave the Brewers the lead, and Hiura’s RBI single in the sixth made it 4-2.
Hendricks lasted six innings, allowing four runs on seven hits. The Cubs wound up with five hits,
Zach Davies, who started the combined no-hitter Thursday, faces Brandon Woodruff on Tuesday night.
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