CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Dansby Swanson and Pete Crow-Armstrong homered as the Chicago Cubs beat the Colorado Rockies 8-6 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Swanson launched a two-run shot during the Cubs\u2019 seven-run second inning and Crow-Armstrong added his 15th of the season in the fourth to help Chicago take two of three games in the series.<\/p>\n
Colorado rookie Sterlin Thompson hit his first two major league home runs. Hunter Goodman and Kyle Karros also went deep for the Rockies.<\/p>\n
Javier Assad (5-1) won his second consecutive start, giving up two runs and five hits in 5 2\/3 innings. Jacob Webb worked the ninth for his second save.<\/p>\n
Sean Sullivan (0-1), making his second career start, was tagged for eight runs and nine hits in four innings.<\/p>\n
Matt Shaw got the Cubs going in the second with a two-run triple and Carson Kelly followed with an RBI double to set the stage for Swanson\u2019s first home run since May 18.<\/p>\n
Seiya Suzuki added a run-scoring double and Alex Bregman hit a sacrifice fly that made it 7-0.<\/p>\n
Thompson had solo shots off Assad in the third and fifth. Goodman hit a two-run homer, his 21st this season, off Ethan Roberts in the eighth. Karros connected off Webb in the ninth.<\/p>\n
Rockies: LHP Kyle Freeland (1-7, 7.98 ERA) is scheduled to face RHP Bubba Chandler (2-7, 4.76) when Pittsburgh comes to Denver to begin a three-game series Friday night.<\/p>\n
Cubs: Had not announced a starter for Friday afternoon\u2019s series opener against visiting Toronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Dansby Swanson and Pete Crow-Armstrong homered as the Chicago Cubs beat the Colorado Rockies 8-6…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2405],"tags":[72,5,707,34,167,52,4316,90921,733,881,2092,442,159,1022,39318,716,4,9500,9501,35,9496,9497,83038,15187,168,39325,105],"class_list":["post-728866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-colorado-rockies","tag-alex-bregman","tag-baseball","tag-bubba-chandler","tag-carson-kelly","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-coloradorockies","tag-cubs-rockies-score-swanson-crowarmstrong","tag-dansby-swanson","tag-ethan-roberts","tag-hunter-goodman","tag-jacob-webb","tag-javier-assad","tag-kyle-freeland","tag-kyle-karros","tag-matt-shaw","tag-mlb","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-pete-crow-armstrong","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40777-ap-colorado-sports-only","tag-product-40784-ap-illinois-sports-only","tag-rockies","tag-sean-sullivan","tag-seiya-suzuki"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728866","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=728866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}