CHICAGO (Interstat) — Alex Bregman hit a two-run homer in the ninth inning as the Chicago Cubs erased a two-run deficit and beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-2 in 11 innings Thursday at Wrigley Field.

Toronto scored one run in the first and one in the seventh. Andrés Giménez scored on Alejandro Kirk’s seventh-inning single. Dylan Cease held Chicago to two hits over seven scoreless innings with 10 strikeouts. But Bregman’s homer in the ninth, scoring Pete Crow-Armstrong, tied it.

Chicago pushed across the winning run in the 11th. Trent Thornton pitched a hitless inning for the win, improving to 4-4. Brendon Little took the loss, falling to 0-3. The Cubs improved to 67-49, while Toronto dropped to 54-62.

The Blue Jays outhit Chicago 11-5. David Peterson allowed one earned run in five innings for Chicago and Aaron Civale gave up one in three relief innings. Attendance was 39,476, and the afternoon game stretched into the evening, lasting 3:21.