Phillies 7, Cubs 4
PHILADELPHIA -- A wild pitch by Cubs reliever Clayton Richard brought home the go-ahead run in the seventh inning as the Philadelphia Phillies beat Chicago 7-4 on Sunday afternoon.
First baseman Ryan Howard homered and drove in three runs for the Phillies, who earned a split of the four-game series.
Right fielder Chris Coghlan homered and tripled twice for the Cubs, who lead the race for the National League's second wild-card spot.
With the score tied 4-4, Philadelphia left fielder Aaron Altherr tripled with one out in the seventh. Howard struck out, but with a 1-0 count on catcher Cameron Rupp, Richard (3-2) uncorked his wild pitch, allowing Altherr to score.
Shortstop Freddy Galvis added a two-run double off reliever Carl Edwards Jr. in the ninth for Philadelphia.
Reliever Dario Hinojosa (1-0) earned the victory for the Phillies. Ken Giles pitched the ninth for his 13th save.
Coghlan tripled and with two outs in the first and scored on a single by third baseman Kris Bryant, but the Phillies answered with two runs off Cubs starter Dan Haren in the bottom of that inning, on Howard's sacrifice fly and Rupp's RBI single.
Howard's two-run homer in the third gave the Phillies a 4-1 lead. It was his 22nd homer of the season.
Cubs shortstop Addison Russell had an RBI single in the fourth, and Coghlan hit a solo homer off Phillies starter Aaron Harang in the fifth, cutting the gap to 4-3. It was Coghlan's 16th homer this season.
The Cubs knotted it with the help of two Phillies errors in the seventh. Russell reached on a bad throw by shortstop Freddy Galvis to start the inning, and scored when second baseman Cesar Hernandez bobbled a two-out grounder by first baseman Anthony Rizzo.
Harang went five innings and allowed three runs and six hits, while striking out five and walking one.
Haren gave up four runs and seven hits in just three innings of work, while striking out four and walking three.
NOTES: Phillies second baseman Cesar Hernandez left the game with a dislocated left thumb after colliding with Cubs 1B Anthony Rizzo following Hernandez's seventh-inning error. ... Phillies RF Brian Bogusevic made two exceptional catches, the first one a diving grab of a liner by Chicago CF Dexter Fowler in the third, the second a snag of a liner into the corner by 3B Kris Bryant. ... The walk-off homer by Philadelphia 3B Cody Asche in Saturday's 7-5 victory over the Cubs came on the one-year anniversary of his first career walk-off homer. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Asche is only the fifth major leaguer in the last 40 years to hit walk-off homers in consecutive seasons.