Chris Coghlan doubled with one out in the 11th inning and scored on Starlin Castro’s walk-off single to lift the Cubs to a 2-1, come-from-behind victory Sunday night over the Reds.
Coghlan lined a double to left past a diving Kristopher Negron, and Castro followed with a single into the gap in left-center off a 1-1 pitch from Burke Badenhop for the Cubs’ eighth walk-off win, most in the Major Leagues.
“It’s getting to be our signature — never giving up, never quitting,” Chicago catcher David Ross said. “It’s easy to sleep at night when you do that.”
It was Castro’s third walk-off hit this season and second straight — he delivered a game-winning RBI single in the ninth inning Saturday night.
“He’s started to get his mojo back, which is good for us,” Cubs manager Joe Maddon said of Castro, who went 3-for-5 in the game.
The Reds took a 1-0 lead in the fifth on Brandon Phillips’ RBI single, driving in Billy Hamilton, who had doubled and stolen third, the third of his career-high five stolen bases in the game. The Cubs then tied the game in the seventh on Dexter Fowler’s sacrifice fly, scoring Ross, who had doubled and moved up on a sacrifice.
Cincinnati loaded the bases in the ninth with none out against Jason Motte, and he retired the next three batters to escape.
“It just didn’t happen,” the Reds’ Todd Frazier said. “We had a lot of energy, guys working their tails off. One guy stepped up. There’s nothing you can really do.”
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