PHOENIX (AP) — Ketel Marte hit a tying solo homer with two outs in the ninth, and Randal Grichuk won it with a pinch-hit RBI double in the 10th, lifting the Arizona Diamondbacks to a wild 12-11 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday night.
The teams split the first two games of the series, which both went into extra innings. They'll play the finale on Wednesday.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Ketel Marte hit a tying solo homer with two outs in the ninth, and Randal Grichuk won it with a pinch-hit RBI double in the 10th, lifting the Arizona Diamondbacks to a wild 12-11 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday night.
Arizona Diamondbacks' Randal Grichuk smiles as he celebrates an RBI double against the Chicago Cubs with teammates during the 10th inning of a baseball game Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Phoenix. The Diamondbacks won 12-11. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Arizona Diamondbacks' Randal Grichuk gets water dumped on him after his double drove in the winning run against the Chicago Cubs in a baseball game Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Phoenix. The Diamondbacks won 12-11 in 10 innings. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Chicago Cubs' Nico Hoerner connects for a run-scoring double against the Arizona Diamondbacks during the fifth inning of a baseball game Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Chicago Cubs' Ian Happ connects for a grand slam against the Arizona Diamondbacks during the seventh inning of a baseball game Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Chicago Cubs relief pitcher Luke Little pauses on the mound during the fifth inning of the team's baseball game against the Arizona Diamondbacks Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Chicago Cubs' Cody Bellinger, right, celebrates his run-scoring triple against the Arizona Diamondbacks as Cubs third base coach Willie Harris looks on during the fifth inning of a baseball game Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Kyle Nelson pacess on the field after giving up a grand slam to Chicago Cubs' Ian Happ during the seventh inning of a baseball game Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Chicago Cubs' Ian Happ, front left, celebrates his grand slam against the Arizona Diamondbacks with teammates, including Nico Hoerner (2) and Cody Bellinger (24), during the seventh inning of a baseball game Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Arizona Diamondbacks' Lourdes Gurriel Jr. (12) celebrates his two-run home run against the Chicago Cubs with Diamondbacks' Ketel Marte (4) during the third inning of a baseball game Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Arizona Diamondbacks' Lourdes Gurriel Jr. (12) scores on a wild pitch as Joc Pederson (3) watches on during the fifth inning of the team's baseball game against the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Grichuk ripped the second pitch he saw from Drew Smyly (2-2) into the left-center gap, easily scoring Christian Walker from second as D-backs players poured onto the field to celebrate.
“It was a lot of ups and downs,” Grichuk said. “Thought we had it in the bag, then it didn't look good, then we got back in there. Roller coaster of emotions for everyone, but it's good to be able to come in and help the team win.”
The Cubs rallied from two three-run deficits, but still couldn't get the win. Ian Happ hit a go-ahead grand slam as part of a six-run seventh inning that gave Chicago an 11-8 lead, but the D-backs slowly clawed back. Arizona cut the margin to 11-9 in the seventh on Blaze Alexander’s double and 11-10 in the eighth on Joc Pederson’s sacrifice fly.
Then came Marte's homer off Cubs closer Adbert Alzolay — a liner that barely cleared the right-center wall. After an official review, the homer was confirmed. Marte finished with four hits.
“Regardless of the situation, the game has to be played the same way,” Marte said through an interpreter. “It's not over until the last out is made.”
Happ hit his first homer of the season off lefty Kyle Nelson, turning on a cutter and sending a line drive into the D-backs' bullpen. Christopher Morel had a sacrifice fly and Garrett Cooper added an RBI single before Happ's crucial homer.
Nico Hoerner had four hits for Chicago, including a double and triple.
“Our guys did great, Nico had a huge night, Ian had a really big night,” Cubs manager Craig Counsell said. “We put 11 runs on the board. We just didn't pitch well enough tonight.”
The game was marked by big swings, with the D-backs taking a 4-1 lead after four innings. The Cubs responded with four runs in the fifth before the D-backs scored four runs of their own in the bottom of the inning for an 8-5 advantage.
It was another tough outing for Cubs starter Kyle Hendricks, who gave up seven earned runs over 4 1/3 innings. The veteran right-hander has been hit hard in all four of his outings this year and now has a 12.71 ERA.
Michael Busch's five-game streak with a homer came to an end. The Cubs rookie — who tied a franchise record with his long-ball streak — was 0 of 4 with a walk and run scored.
Lourdes Gurriel Jr. hit a two-run homer and Pederson added a solo shot in the third inning to give the Diamondbacks a 4-1 lead. Gurriel has five homers and 20 RBIs through 17 games.
D'backs left-hander Tommy Henry gave up five runs and nine hits over 4 1/3 innings. Kevin Ginkel (1-0) earned the win with a scoreless 10th inning.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Cubs: Manager Craig Counsell told reporters that OF Seiya Suzuki (oblique) is likely out for around four weeks, but the team will have a better timetable once he's symptom-free.
D-backs: Catcher Gabriel Moreno was a late scratch because of a sore right thumb. The team said he was still available to play and is considered day to day.
UP NEXT
The teams wrap up the three-game series on Wednesday afternoon. The D-backs will throw RHP Brandon Pfaadt (1-0, 6.48 ERA) and the Cubs counter with LHP Jordan Wicks (0-2, 5.68 ERA).
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Chicago Cubs pitcher Drew Smyly, center, and Cubs first baseman Michael Busch, right, walk off the field as Arizona Diamondbacks' Randal Grichuk (15) celebrates his double that drove in the winning run during the 10th inning of a baseball game Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Phoenix. The Diamondbacks won 12-11. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Arizona Diamondbacks' Randal Grichuk smiles as he celebrates an RBI double against the Chicago Cubs with teammates during the 10th inning of a baseball game Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Phoenix. The Diamondbacks won 12-11. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Arizona Diamondbacks' Randal Grichuk gets water dumped on him after his double drove in the winning run against the Chicago Cubs in a baseball game Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Phoenix. The Diamondbacks won 12-11 in 10 innings. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Chicago Cubs' Nico Hoerner connects for a run-scoring double against the Arizona Diamondbacks during the fifth inning of a baseball game Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Chicago Cubs' Ian Happ connects for a grand slam against the Arizona Diamondbacks during the seventh inning of a baseball game Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Chicago Cubs relief pitcher Luke Little pauses on the mound during the fifth inning of the team's baseball game against the Arizona Diamondbacks Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Chicago Cubs' Cody Bellinger, right, celebrates his run-scoring triple against the Arizona Diamondbacks as Cubs third base coach Willie Harris looks on during the fifth inning of a baseball game Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Kyle Nelson pacess on the field after giving up a grand slam to Chicago Cubs' Ian Happ during the seventh inning of a baseball game Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Chicago Cubs' Ian Happ, front left, celebrates his grand slam against the Arizona Diamondbacks with teammates, including Nico Hoerner (2) and Cody Bellinger (24), during the seventh inning of a baseball game Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Arizona Diamondbacks' Lourdes Gurriel Jr. (12) celebrates his two-run home run against the Chicago Cubs with Diamondbacks' Ketel Marte (4) during the third inning of a baseball game Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Arizona Diamondbacks' Lourdes Gurriel Jr. (12) scores on a wild pitch as Joc Pederson (3) watches on during the fifth inning of the team's baseball game against the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — NATO countries haven’t delivered what they promised to Ukraine in time, the alliance’s chief said Monday, allowing Russia to press its advantage while Kyiv’s depleted forces wait for military supplies to arrive from the U.S. and Europe.
"Serious delays in support have meant serious consequences on the battlefield” for Ukraine, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told a news conference in Kyiv with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Outgunned, Ukraine’s troops have struggled to fend off Russian advances on the battlefield. They were recently compelled to make a tactical retreat from three villages in the east, where the Kremlin's forces have been making incremental gains, Ukraine's army chief said Sunday. The Russian Defense Ministry claimed Monday its forces had also taken the village of Semenivka.
“The lack of ammunition has allowed the Russians to push forward along the front line. Lack of air defense has made it possible for more Russian missiles to hit their targets, and the lack of deep strike capabilities has made it possible for the Russians to concentrate more forces,” Stoltenberg said.
Kyiv’s Western partners have repeatedly vowed to stand with Ukraine “for as long as it takes.” But vital U.S. military help was held up for six months by political differences in Washington, and Europe’s military hardware production has not kept up with demand. Ukraine’s own manufacturing of heavy weapons is only now starting to gain traction.
Now, Ukraine and its Western partners are racing to deploy critical new military aid that can help check the slow and costly but steady Russian advance across eastern areas, as well as thwart drone and missile attacks.
Zelenskyy said new Western supplies have started arriving, but slowly. "This process must be speeded up,” he said at the news conference with Stoltenberg.
Though the 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front line has shifted little since early in the war, the Kremlin’s forces in recent weeks have edged forward, especially in the Donetsk region, with sheer numbers and massive firepower used to bludgeon defensive positions.
Russia also continues to launch missiles, drones and bombs at cities across Ukraine. At least four people were killed and 27 injured in a Russian missile strike on residential buildings and “civil infrastructure” in the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa on Monday, regional governor Oleh Kiper said on the Telegram messaging site.
A turreted Gothic-style building known locally as the “Harry Potter Castle,” was seen in flames after the strike.
Russia is a far bigger country than Ukraine, with greater resources. It has also received weapons support from Iran and North Korea, the U.S. government says.
Drawn-out Ukrainian efforts to mobilize more troops, and the belated building of battlefield fortifications, are other factors undermining Ukraine’s war effort, military analysts say.
Nick Reynolds, a research fellow for land warfare at the London-based Royal United Services Institute, said the war “is still largely an artillery duel.”
He said he did not expect to see major movement of the front lines in the near term, but that “the conditions are being set for which side has military advantage at the front line. The Russian military is in a better position at the moment.
“When we see one side or the other being in a position to move the front line, at some stage, maneuver will be restored to the battlefield. Not in the next few weeks, maybe not even in the next few months. But it will happen,” he told The Associated Press.
Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh, at a briefing with reporters Monday, also acknowledged Russia’s recent battlefield gains, noting that a delay in congressional approval for additional spending “set the Ukrainians back.”
NATO chief Stoltenberg, however, said more weapons and ammunition for Ukraine are on the way, including Patriot missile systems to defend against heavy Russian barrages that smash into the power grid and urban areas.
Ukrainian officials say Russia is assembling forces for a major summer offensive, even if its troops are making only incremental gains at the moment.
“Russian forces remain unlikely to achieve a deeper operationally significant penetration in the area in the near term,” the Institute for the Study of War said in an assessment Sunday.
Even so, the Kremlin’s forces are closing in on the strategically important hilltop town of Chasiv Yar, whose capture would be an important step forward into the Donetsk region.
Donetsk and Luhansk form much of the industrial Donbas region, which has been gripped by separatist fighting since 2014, and which Putin has set as a primary objective of the Russian invasion. Russia illegally annexed areas of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia regions in September 2022.
In other developments, Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh made an unannounced visit to Ukraine – the first British royal to travel to the country since Russia’s 2022 invasion.
Buckingham Palace said Monday that Sophie, wife of Prince Edward, met President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and First Lady Olena Zelenska in Kyiv and delivered a message on behalf of King Charles III. It did not disclose the timing or details of the visit.
The palace said Sophie, 59, made the trip “to demonstrate solidarity with the women, men and children impacted by the war and in a continuation of her work to champion survivors of conflict-related sexual violence.”
Associated Press writer Tara Copp in Washington contributed reporting.
Follow AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine
Britain's Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, visits a photo exhibition dedicated to the sacrifices of the Russian occupation of the town in Saint Andrew's Church in Bucha, Ukraine, Monday, April 29, 2024. (Anatolii Stepanov/Pool via AP)
Britain's Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, visits the Romanivska Bridge in the town of Irpin, Ukraine, Monday, April 29, 2024. (Anatolii Stepanov/Pool via AP)
Britain's Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, visits the Family center of the NGO "Save Ukraine" in the town of Irpin, Ukraine, Monday, April 29, 2024. (Anatolii Stepanov/Pool via AP)
Britain's Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, visits Saint Andrew's Church in the town of Bucha, Ukraine, Monday, April 29, 2024. (Anatolii Stepanov/Pool via AP)
Britain's Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, meets with children as she visits the Family center of the NGO "Save Ukraine" in the town of Irpin, Ukraine, Monday, April 29, 2024. (Anatolii Stepanov/Pool via AP)
Britain's Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, meets with children as she visits the Family center of the NGO "Save Ukraine" in the town of Irpin, Ukraine, Monday, April 29, 2024. (Anatolii Stepanov/Pool via AP)
Britain's Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, and the Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Ukraine Martin Harris, right, visit the memorial to the victims of the Russian occupation in the town of Bucha, Ukraine, Monday, April 29, 2024. (Anatolii Stepanov/Pool via AP)
Britain's Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, visits the memorial to the victims of the Russian occupation in the town of Bucha, Ukraine, Monday, April 29, 2024. (Anatolii Stepanov/Pool via AP)
In this photo provided by the Odesa Regional Administration, city officials examine a fragment of a missile after the Russian missile attack that killed several people, and wounded multiple others in Odessa, Ukraine, Monday, April 29, 2024. (Odesa Regional Administration via AP)
A building of the Odessa Law Academy is on fire after a Russian missile attack in Odessa, Ukraine, Monday, April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Victor Sajenko)
Britain's Duchess of Edinburgh Sophie, right, with the First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska visit the Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, Monday April 29, 2024. (Anatolii Stepanov/Pool via AP)
Britain's Duchess of Edinburgh Sophie, center, visits the Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, Monday April 29, 2024. (Anatolii Stepanov/Pool via AP)
Britain's Duchess of Edinburgh Sophie, second right, the First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska, right, and Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Ukraine, Martin Harris visit the Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, Monday April 29, 2024. (Anatolii Stepanov/Pool via AP)
Britain's Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, second right, and Martin Harris, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Ukraine, right, visit the UNFPA office in Kyiv to meet with war victims, Monday April 29, 2024. (Anatolii Stepanov/Pool via AP)
Britain's Duchess of Edinburgh Sophie, left, with the First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska visit the Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, Monday April 29, 2024. (Anatolii Stepanov/Pool via AP)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, welcomes NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 29, 2024. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, welcomes NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 29, 2024. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center right, talks with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, centre left, during their meeting in Kyiv Ukraine, Monday, April 29, 2024. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, welcomes NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 29, 2024. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)
Two women walk along a street in downtown Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, April 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
A woman sells toys in front of a building with windows protected by sandbags in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, April 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg talks during his joint press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, welcomes NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, talks with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg during their meeting in Kyiv Ukraine, Monday, April 29, 2024. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg talks during his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv Ukraine, Monday, April 29, 2024. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, welcomes NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg walk before their press conference in Kyiv Ukraine, Monday, April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
