The Cubs did something Saturday that they have not done since May 7, as they beat the Giants to win a series. They got more power with three home runs and allowed just one run for the second consecutive game to secure the victory.<\/p>\n
Chicago started things off with a bang when Pete Crow-Armstrong<\/a> took Trevor McDonald<\/a> deep for an opposite-field solo shot on the first pitch of the night. They would add on in the 3rd with an RBI single by Seiya Suzuki<\/a>, followed by Michael Busch<\/a> stealing home on a bizarre play where catcher Eric Haase<\/a> threw to no one at second base when Ian Happ<\/a> attempted to steal with men at the corners.<\/p>\n Ben Brown<\/a> pitched around a lot of traffic on the bases, but only gave up a single run on a triple by Luis Arraez<\/a> in the bottom of the 3rd. The North Siders got that tally right back on a bases-loaded walk by Busch in the top of the 4th to bring the lead to 4-1.<\/p>\n The Cubs hit a pair of homers off left-handed reliever Reiver Sanmartin<\/a> in the 5th. Happ went out to left, and then Pedro Ram\u00edrez<\/a> hit his first career dinger to dead center to make it a 6-1 score. There was very little excitement after that and the road team would win by the same margin. (Box score<\/a>)<\/p>\n Key Moment<\/p>\n Brown stranded four runners on base in the 3rd and 4th innings to keep Chicago in front.<\/p>\n Why the Cubs\u00a0Won<\/p>\n They hit for power with seven extra-base knocks and the entire pitching staff did a good job.<\/p>\n Stats That Matter<\/p>\n Brown was not as sharp as his recent outings but the results were great: 5\u00a0IP, 1 R, 7 H, 3 K, and 3 BB. Bottom Line<\/p>\n After playing badly for so long, the Cubs look more like the team from April the past three games. It is too small a sample size to know if this is the start of a hot streak, but just getting a brief respite from the struggles is nice. Things might get more interesting if they can complete a sweep of San Francisco.<\/p>\n On Deck<\/p>\n Chicago makes the attempt to break out the brooms Sunday afternoon at 2:10pm CT. Colin Rea<\/a> is on the hill against Logan Webb<\/a> in a matchup broadcast exclusively on ABC, with a radio feed available on The Score.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cubs did something Saturday that they have not done since May 7, as they beat the Giants…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,734,138,24,4245,161,4,45122,35,105],"class_list":["post-725758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-cubs","tag-baseball","tag-ben-brown","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicagocubs","tag-cubs","tag-mlb","tag-pedro-ramirez","tag-pete-crow-armstrong","tag-seiya-suzuki"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116748803309755042","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSuzuki singled and doubled before unfortunately being forced to leave the game with knee discomfort after attempting to make a catch in the 5th.
\nPCA ended up a triple short of the cycle.
\nRamirez also had a double and might start to earn more playing time.<\/p>\n