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Pittsburgh Pirates\u2019 Spencer Horwitz scores a run on a RBI-double by Pittsburgh Pirates\u2019 Brandon Lowe during the third inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs, Monday, May 25, 2026, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo\/David Dermer)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

PITTSBURGH \u2014 Henry Davis hit a go-ahead solo home run in the seventh inning, and the Pittsburgh Pirates sent the Chicago Cubs to their ninth straight loss with a 2-1 victory on Monday.<\/p>

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Davis turned on a 91 mph cutter from Cubs reliever Trent Thornton (2-1) and sent it well over the right-field fence for his fourth home run of the season.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh\u2019s bullpen made it stand up. Wilber Dotel (1-0) tossed three scoreless innings in relief to pick up the victory. Gregory Soto worked a perfect ninth for his sixth save as the Pirates beat the Cubs for the third time in four tries so far this season.<\/p>\n

Brandon Lowe had two hits for Pittsburgh, including an RBI double. Spencer Horwitz also had a pair of hits and a handful of excellent plays at first base, all of them against Cubs star Pete Crow-Armstrong. Horwitz was perfectly positioned to snatch a couple of line drives and then made a brilliant diving grab on a sharp grounder before tossing to Dotel covering first to rob Crow-Armstrong of a hit.<\/p>\n

Michael Busch hit his sixth homer of the season for Chicago, but it wasn\u2019t enough to halt a funk that is nearing three weeks. Chicago\u2019s nine-game skid is the franchise\u2019s longest since a 10-game slide in 2022. The Cubs have dropped 13 of 15 overall to fall into the middle of the pack in the hyper-competitive NL Central, where all five teams started Memorial Day above .500.<\/p>

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Cubs starter Ben Brown allowed one run and four hits over six innings with two walks and seven strikeouts, whittling his ERA to 2.01.<\/p>\n

Pirates starter Carmen Mlodzinski \u2014 fighting hard to stay in the rotation as Jared Jones nears his return from elbow surgery \u2014 allowed one run over five innings with three walks and three strikeouts.<\/p>\n

The series continues on Tuesday. Braxton Ashcraft (3-2, 2.89 ERA) starts for the Pirates.<\/p>

Read more Felix Rosenqvist is savoring a busy schedule as the spoils of victory from his Indianapolis 500 win<\/a><\/p>\n

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AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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