Heading into the top of the 11th inning against the Washington Nationals on Tuesday night, the one through three batters in the Chicago Cubs lineup found themselves hitle s through 14 combined trips to the plate. That was until Cubs third baseman Patrick Wisdom Enrique Hernandez Jersey leadoff the inning. Following a close 5-4 lo s in game one of the series on Monday night, Wisdom scathed an 0-1 inside breaking ball from Nationals reliever Victor Arano for a go-ahead RBI double that landed just inside the third base foul line.As Wisdom found himself standing on second base after plating extra-inning free runner Willson Contreras as the go-ahead run, the third baseman would quickly come around to score in the following at-bat by a Seiya Suzuki single.After watching their four-run lead fade in the late innings, suddenly the momentum was shifted back to the visitors and would hold en route to a tenacious totalteam 7-5 victory for Chicago,On a night that began with left-hander Justin Steele making his team-high 22nd start of the season, the team's offense was able to get to work quickly against struggling Nationals starting pitcher Patrick Corbin under the 80-degree clear summer skies. Carrying a 4-16 record on the season and a career-worst 7.02 ERA and .331 opponent batting average, the left-handed Corbin came into the nights action needing to see improvement. Three of his previous five starts saw him exiting before the end of the first inning, including his previous start in Philadelphia where he lasted only two-thirds of an inning allowing six runs on five hits. The 10-year Mike Piazza Jersey veteran fared a bit better against the young Chicago lineup, lasting for six innings. However, Corbin did give up RBI hits to Nelson Velazquez, a red-hot Nico Hoerner, and first baseman P.J. Higgins throughout the second and third innings, allowing an early 3-0 lead for the Cubs. Looking to continue his stretch of reaching base safely in every game hes played in their uniform, recently added Cubs DH Franmil Reyes collected two hits, including a sixth-inning solo homer for number 11 of the year.Entering the night with the sixth-lowest ERA in the National League since the All Yasmani Grandal Jersey -Star break (1.40), the 27-year-old Steele cruised through his first five innings of work. It wasn't until the sixth inning where a leadoff walk to Washington centerfielder Victor Robles, followed by a base hit from rookie Joey Meneses, offered the Nationals their first threat of the ballgame while still scorele s. Scroll to ContinueAs the next batter Luke Voit would lineout to Chicago shortstop Nico Hoerner, Steele kept the damage to a minimum as a sacrifice fly from designated hitter Nelson Cruz and a gritty eight-pitch at-bat strikeout of Lane Thomas would cut the rally short, ending his night on a high note. With their offense stifled by a three-perfect inning performance by Nationals relievers Steve Cischek, Erasmo Ramirez, and Kyle Finnegan, the Nats got to work at the plate. They put two runs on the scoreboard off of Cubs reliever Erich Uelman in the seventh, followed by Logan Forsythe Jersey game-tying solo home runs from both Luke Voit and Lane Thomas in the eighth inning off of unofficial Cubs closer Rowan Wick. For Wick, who hadn't allowed an earned run since July 9th against the Los Angeles Dodgers, the homers ended a streak of eleven consecutive scorele s outings. With the score tied, and seemingly all of the momentum in Washingtons favor, strong relief pitching set the stage for a 10th inning, go-ahead, Contreras sacrifice fly to give the Cubs a 5-4 edge. Despite getting the Nats down to their last out, C.J. Abrams, the top prospect sent to D.C Clayton Kershaw Jersey . in the recent Juan Soto trade, sent his first hit as a National into right field to tie the score at five.Thanks to the aforementioned clutch hits from Wisdom and Suzuki in the 11th, reliever Mark Leiter Jr. would come on for Chicago and record, not just the final three outs, but also his first save on the season to wrap up a well-fought victory. While the "W" flag flies high tonight in D.C., lefty Drew Smyly heads to the mound in the rubber match for the Cubs tomorrow as he looks to build upon the succe s he found in his previous two starts against the Miami Marlins and in the Field of Dreams game versus the Cincinnati Reds.More From SI's Inside The Cubs