Record-setting day of postseason homers

The Chicago Cubs set a MLB team playoff record with six home runs Monday night to power their way to a 8-6 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 3 of the National League Division Series.

“To see the ball fly out of the yard as many times as it did was incredible”, Arrieta said. “We are definitely capable of that”.

Baseball fans will want to watch live online as the St. Louis Cardinals enter Wrigley Field looking to get an edge on the Chicago Cubs in their deadlocked National League Division Series, setting up a potential clinching game on Tuesday.

The Chicago Cubs are looking to have the lead as they delivered one of their best games in Game 2.

Chicago’s Jason Hammel will oppose John Lackey, who won the opener for the Cardinals.

NOTES: The Cardinals entered Monday’s NLDS game with an 11-8 regular-season edge over the Cubs but only four wins in nine games at Wrigley Field.

By the way, Montero uses “We Are Good” in his Twitter posts. The Cardinals, though, were unable to keep the Cubs in the ballpark.

When Soler homered in the sixth on the first pitch by reliever Adam Wainwright, it marked the fourth hit of his postseason and second home run.

“We were grinding against Arrieta all night and we did have opportunities”, Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said. He finished the 2015 season with a 17-7 record to go along with a 3.38 ERA.

St. Louis snapped Arrieta’s 34 scoreless innings streak (which began on September 16) and it was the first time he gave up more than one run in an inning since July 30.

And it didn’t matter, not one bit.

“I told him to get mad at the baseball”, Schwarber said of his pregame message.

Cardinals starter Michael Wacha (L: 0-1, 8.31) allowed four earned runs on six hits (three home runs) in 4 1/3 innings. “I’ve been preparing for this game since my last outing in Cincinnati (a 5-3 win on October 1), so I’ve had a little time to think about it, and honestly, I’ll be ready to go”.

With the score 5-2 and Arrieta on the mound, it looked like the game was over.

Kendrys Morales followed with a hard, one-bouncer off Sipp’s glove. They can hit a few mistake balls, and they don’t miss very many of them.

Alex Gordon’s RBI groundout off Luke Gregerson later in the inning put Kansas City ahead.

Soler pulled two runs back for Chicago in the bottom of the sixth with a first-pitch homer that also scored Chris Coghlan. Bryant and Rizzo went back-to-back in the fifth.

The biggest surprise of the season was the emergence of pitcher Jake Arrieta, who took over as the Cubs’ ace even after the signing of Lester.

Mets 13, Dodgers 7: NEW YORK – Curtis Granderson drove in five runs with two doubles off the wall, Travis d’Arnaud and Yoenis Cespedes homered, and New York’s risky bats busted loose to give the Mets a 2-1 series lead.

Of course, everyone said the same thing about Kershaw when he was the NL MVP and won his third Cy Young Award previous year, and he dropped both of his playoff starts against St. Louis.

Chicago’s bullpen did a solid job up until Hector Rondon surrendered a two-run home run to rookie Stephen Piscotty with two outs in the ninth.