Chicago Cubs end 10-game skid while halting Atlanta Braves' 14-game win streak

CHICAGO — The Chicago Cubs became the first team in 23 years to stop a losing streak of 10 or more game while ending an opponent's winning streak of at least 10 games, beating the Braves 1-0 Friday to halt Atlanta's majors-best 14-game run.

Rookie Christopher Morel hit a sacrifice fly in the eighth inning, helping the Cubs stop a 10-game slide, the longest losing streak in the majors this season, and Chicago's longest since 12 straight losses from last Aug. 5-16.

The Braves are the first team to have a 14-plus-game win streak snapped by a 1-0 loss since 2013 — when Atlanta also saw a 14-game win streak halted by a 1-0 loss to the Marlins.

Morel drove in the game's only run against reliever A.J. Minter after striking out in his first three at-bats, then getting some advice from catcher Willson Contreras.

«It helped me concentrate on what I needed to do, what to focus on with that tough lefty,'' Morel, who has 15 RBIs since making his major league debut on May 17, said. „Willson talked to me and told me, ''Don't look for stuff low around the plate. Look high.'“

A pair of double-digit streaks had not ended in the same game since Philadelphia beat Houston on Sept. 15, 1999, ending the Phillies' skid at 11 and the Astros' winning streak at 12.

Chicago had not won 1-0 since May 28 last year against Cincinnati. The Braves lost 1-0 for the second time this year following a defeat at Milwaukee on May 16.

Minter (2-1) walked pinch-hitter Jonathan Villar leading off the eighth. He advanced on Andrelton Simmons' sacrifice, stole third without a throw on Minter's 2-1 pitch in the dirt to Morel and scored on Morel's 277-foot fly to center with a steady wind blowing in at Wrigley Field.

Villar slid home headfirst as Michael Harris II's