Cubs sweep Brewers at Wrigley with 7th win in a row

“It’s incredible, isn’t it?” he said.

Angels 7, Royals 6 • C.J. Cron and Kole Calhoun each drove in a pair of runs in the ninth inning, rallying visiting Los Angeles past Kansas City and its stout bullpen for a victory and an end to its seven-game skid against the Royals. “The ballpark turned around today and our guys took advantage of it”.

Yankees 8, Indians 6 – Brian McCann hit a three-run homer, Stephen Drew also connected, and New York broke a five-game losing streak with the win in Cleveland.

But Miguel Montero got the last laugh leading off the bottom of the 10th inning, hitting a walk-off homer off Michael Blazek as the Chicago Cubs won their sixth straight game, 3-2. The victory was the seventh straight and 13th in 14 games for Chicago (65-48) and temporarily moved the Cubs within one game of Pittsburgh for the National League’s top wild-card spot.

When tavern owner Billy Sianis was forced to leave a World Series game in 1945 against the Detroit Tigers because of his pet goat’s odor bothering other fans in attendance, he infamously remarked “Them Cubs, they ain’t gonna win no more.”

“I’d rather have him for nine completely healthy starts than maybe one or two where he’s not 100 percent”, Bochy said. “He had to battle through some moments, but he was really good”.

“He’s still a really big part of the organization, 25-years old, 200-hits seasons, three All-Star appearances and we still see him as a real good player”, said Cubs general manager Theo Epstein prior to Wednesday’s middle match of a three-game series with the Milwaukee Brewers.

“I want him to be upset, actually, because of his competitive side”.

The Pirates’ seven first-inning runs are the most first-inning runs they have scored in St. Louis since June 13, 1943.

The Cubs started the scoring in the second on Jorge Soler’s RBI single.

The 25-year-old shortstop is amid his worst major league season, batting just.236/.271/.304 for a 60 OPS+-all career worsts-with just five homers and four stolen bases. Segura likely would have scored when Braun later singled to right. After Schwarber’s blast next, the Cubs had a 4-1 lead. He appeared to make the catch as he was falling into the stands and first base umpire Mark Carlson initially waved it off.

Schwarber then launched a 2-2 pitch to center field for his seventh home run of the season and a 4-1 Cubs lead.

“I kept playing a lot of things I would have done different, probably, with pitch selections”, Cravy said. They stole four bases and Lester made a… well, sort-of pickoff attempt that headed toward the Rizzo Memorial Tarp, but even at that, Milwaukee got just one run out of all that running and the game headed into the middle innings tied.

Billy Hamilton, Cincinnati Reds: The speedster showed rare power against the Dodgers, belting a solo homer in the eighth for his fourth hit of the night.

“It’s definitely enjoyable”, Schwarber said of the multi-homer day.