Local kid Kyle Schwarber put on a late-night show all on his own Tuesday night at Great American Ball Park. Schwarber, a nearby Middletown, Ohio, native, had a four-RBI game as he hit the game-tying homer in the ninth inning and the game-winning homer in the top of the 13th to lead the Cubs to a 5-4 victory over the Reds.
With one out in the Chicago 13th, Schwarber lined a 2-2 pitch from reliever Nate Adcock to snap a 4-4 tie and even the four-game series ahead of Wednesday’s day-night doubleheader. Jason Motte allowed three hits but had two scoreless innings to earn the victory. The Reds and Cubs have played 11 times this season, with five of those games going to extra innings. This time, it was all because of the rookie Schwarber.
“I always said I wanted to be a Major League ball player when I was growing up, but I never knew it would come to fruition,” Schwarber said when asked if he ever thought he’d be rounding the bases in this situation. “A lot of hard work went into that, and now it’s here. It’s an awesome feeling to just play a ballgame up in the Major Leagues.”
Because Aroldis Chapman was unavailable following a career-high 44 pitch outing Sunday, followed by a save on Monday, J.J. Hoover was summoned by Cincinnati to close with a 4-2 lead in the ninth. It backfired when Hoover allowed a leadoff single before Schwarber crushed a game-tying two-run homer high into to right field that forced extras.
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