[1/41] Aug 1, 2023; Chicago, Illinois, USA; A detail shot of baseballs before the game between the Chicago Cubs and the Cincinnati Reds at Wrigley Field. Cubs starter Justin Steele (12-3) won his third straight outing, but he yielded five runs (four earned) and nine hits in six innings. Hoerner scored on Bellinger's single, and Swanson went deep, with two men on, for a 5-0 Chicago lead. Chicago got both runs back in the bottom of the second on Bellinger's shot off the right field video board. In the fourth, following Bellinger's single, Swanson went deep into the left-center-field basket.

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Persons: David Banks, Dansby Swanson, Jeimer Candelario, Cody Bellinger, Mike Tauchman, Nico Hoerner, Patrick Wisdom, Miguel Amaya, Swanson, Candelario, Justin Steele, Tyler Stephenson, Matt McLain, Cincinnati's Ben Lively, Tauchman, Hoerner, Stephenson, Spencer Steer, Steele, TJ Friedl's grounder, Nick Madrigal Organizations: Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, Wrigley, USA, Cubs, Chicago, Monday, National League Central, Reds, Wrigley Field, Thomson Locations: Chicago , Illinois, USA, Chicago, Washington, Cincinnati