Washington Nationals starting pitcher Max Scherzer (31) reacts after giving up back to back home runs to the Chicago Cubs during the third inning of a baseball game, Friday, May 6, 2016, in Chicago.
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Joe Ross (3-1) matched Hendricks for much of the night, striking out nine in 6-2/3 innings.
The Cubs won their fifth straight and improved to a major league-leading 22-6, the best 28-game start in the National League since the 1977 Los Angeles Dodgers began with the same record. 211 with no home runs after batting. In the third, Anthony Rizzo yanked a Scherzer offering high in the air to right field, hugging the foul line the entire way, eventually catching the Ryne Sandberg flag fluttering atop the foul pole.
The Moss homer is the fourth longest this season in the major leagues.
Chicago opened a 2-0 lead in the fourth inning after loading the bases with no outs.
Reliever Matt Barnes (2-1) worked 1 2/3 scoreless innings for the win.
8-2 seemed to be a large enough lead, but Clayton Richard and Justin Grimm got hit pretty hard in the eighth, allowing four runs, with the big blow a two-run homer by Wilson Ramos.
Bottom Play (WPA): The narrative that has coalesced around the Cubs so far this season has centered on the club’s outrageous run differential-currently at +97, or more than the second- and third-ranked clubs combined.
Astros closer Luke Gregerson staggered throughout the ninth, allowing two singles and a walk in advance of his facing Cano. Pitcher Tanner Roark now has four quality starts in his last five outings. It was Rendon’s second home run of the season and his second in the last four games.
The Nationals are 5-1 on a 10-game road trip and are 11-4 away from home.
BALTIMORE – Pedro Alvarez’s 10th-inning sacrifice fly gave Baltimore a victory over NY. Washington took two of three from the defending World Series champion Kansas City Royals this week, including a 13-2 drubbing in the series finale Wednesday.
Zobrist’s single to right drove in La Stella from third and Kris Bryant from second. Anthony Rizzo has been a power machine with 10 homers, 27 RBI and 24 runs.
A well-rested Kyle Hendricks (1-2, 3.91) will seek to build on a solid performance. Ben Zobrist walked to lead off the inning, and Tommy La Stella jumped on a first-pitch fastball, up and out over the plate, sending it over Bryce Harper’s head and five rows into the right-field bleachers (+.181).
MIAMI (AP) – Giancarlo Stanton homered and drove in two runs for Miami.
Fernando Rodney got the final two outs for seventh save.
Bruce homered during a five-run first inning off Chase Anderson (1-4).
Peavy allowed seven runs and eight hits in six innings, raising his ERA to 9.00 in six starts.
Prior to his ejection, Fowler went 0-for-2 with a pair of strikeouts against Washington Nationals’ starter Joe Ross.
This is the first time Cincinnati has won consecutive games since beating Colorado on April 19-20. Giancarlo Stanton went 2 for 3 with a double and scored a run. Trout, a four-time All-Star, has 18 RBIs in his last 13 games after a slow start. Daniel Murphy had three hits off him. Murphy and Clint Robinson drove in three runs apiece.
The Nationals batted around twice in the first three innings.
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Pinch hitter C.J. Cron added an RBI double in the inning, and Giavotella contributed a two-run single off Blaine Boyer.
