The 27-year-old right-hander also issued three walks on the night while punching out five. The Cubs got to him early and often in this one, using six hits to push five runs across in the opening inning. May settled in nicely after that until surrendering a two-run homer to Pete Crow-Armstrong in the fifth inning. He got nine whiffs on 95 pitches on the night, posting an underwhelming CSW of just 22 percent. After this rough outing May has seen his ERA balloon from 1.06 to 3.68. He’ll try to put this one behind him and get back on track when he takes on the Marlins on Monday evening in Los Angeles.

Suzuki’s two-run homer off Marlins lefty reliever Anthony Veneziano gave the Cubs a commanding five-run lead that they wouldn’t relinquish. He’s hitting just .149 (7-for-47) in 11 games since the start of May, but three of those hits have left the yard.

Hill went deep in his return from the injured list, clobbering a no-doubter to left field two outs in the seventh inning to break up a potential shutout bid from Cubs starter Colin Rea. It was his second dinger of the season and first time he’s gone deep since April 8. It was also his lone hit in four at-bats in the low-scoring affair.

Pomeranz, who hasn’t allowed a run in seven relief appearances since making his Chicago debut back on April 25, got the call to protect a three-run lead with Porter Hodge likely unavailable after throwing 29 pitches in a pair of appearances over the weekend. It certainly appears the Cubs are going to try to stay away from Ryan Pressly in save situations for the time being. The 36-year-old veteran southpaw struck out Kyle Stowers and got Eric Wagaman to fly out to center field before Connor Norby delivered a two-out single. He froze Derek Hill on a 94.4 mph fastball to extinguish any hopes of a comeback and preserve the victory.