Seiya Suzuki had his first four-hit game this year to help spark the Chicago Cubs to a 17-3 comeback win Tuesday over the Washington Nationals.
Trailing 3-1 in the sixth, the second-year Cub blasted his eighth home run to the last row of the left-field bleachers at Chicago's Wrigley Field. Chicago would go on to tie it and then break the game open in a six-run seventh.
The Cubs' Patrick Wisdom opened the seventh with his 17th home run to give the hosts a 4-3 lead. With no outs and two on, Suzuki singled to make it 5-3 and later scored.
Suzuki, who went 2-for-17 in the days before Tuesday's game, went 4-for-6 with another RBI single.
"Seiya looked phenomenal tonight," Cubs manager David Ross said, going on to laud the work Suzuki has been doing postgame in the batting cage to refine his mechanics.
In Anaheim, California, Shohei Ohtani hit his MLB-leading seventh triple, going 1-for-3 with a walk, a run and an RBI for the Los Angeles Angels in their 5-1 win over the New York Yankees.
